Passaic County is considered the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.
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Although the Borough of Ship Bottom, New Jersey was incorporated in 1925, the name dates back to a shipwreck that occurred in March 1817, when Captain Stephen Willets of Tuckerton rescued a young woman from the hull of a ship overturned in the shoals. The
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The average household size in Bergen County is 2.64 and the average family size is 3.17.