Ferry Fire Claims Unknown Number of Lives

By THOMAS P. FARNER | May 03, 2012

At about 8:30 on the night of Saturday, March 15, 1856, approximately 100 passengers boarded the steam ferry New Jersey for the short voyage from today’s Penn’s Landing to the Jersey side, near where today’s battleship New Jersey is moored. What the ...

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