Saturday, September 19, 2015

Vintage photos: Bayonne's bridges and waterways

NJ.com: "Through the years, Bayonne's bridges and waterways have offered its residents and visitors stunning displays of engineering feats and nature's beauty.

Browse through the gallery above to get a glimpse of how the Peninsula City's transportation infrastructure has progressed through the years, in photographs taken from the late 19th to mid-20th century.

The images -- just a sample of those available at the Bayonne Public Library -- include those of the Morris and Essex Canal in 1894, the groundbreaking of the Bayonne Bridge in 1928 and the filling of the shore of the Kill Van Kull in 1965."