Pavonia, New Netherland

Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River (Hudson River) that was part of the seventeenth-century province of New Netherland in what would become the present Hudson County, New Jersey.[1]

Reprint of 1650 map of New Netherland
  1. ^ Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Pavonia". New Jersey City University. Archived from the original on September 6, 2009. Retrieved September 14, 2014.