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Encyclopedia Britannica



SUMMIT

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 80 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
SUMMIT , a city of Union county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., in the north-east of the state, about 21 M. W. of New
York
  City. Pop. (1900) 5302, of whom x397 were foreign-born; (1905) 6845; (1910) 7500. It is served by the Morris & Essex and the Passaic &
Delaware
  divisions of
Delaware
 , Lackawanna & Western railroad, and by the Rahway Valley railroad extending to Roselle, 9 M. distant. Summit is picturesquely situated on the crest of a
ridge
  called Second Mountain, with a mean
elevation
  of 450 ft. It is a residential suburb of New
York
 , and attracts a number of summer residents. Among its institutions are a public library (1874), a home for blind children, the Overlook hospital and the Kent Place school (1894) for girls. On
Hobart
  Hill there is a monument marking the site of a beacon light and a signal gun used during the War of Independence. Summit was incorporated as a township in 1869 from parts of the townships at
Springfield
  and New Providence, and was chartered as a city in 189q.


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