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Port Johnston Coal Docks
The
Port Johnston Coal Docks
were built on the
Kill van Kull
at
Constable Hook
in
Bayonne, New Jersey
in 1864 by the
Central Railroad of New Jersey
. The coal dock was named after the company's president
John Taylor Johnston
. (The former Johnston Yard and today's
Johnston Avenue
also bear his name). At the time of its completion in 1866, it was the largest coal dock in the world and employed 200 men, mostly
Irish immigrants
. Their job was to empty coal from railroad cars onto barges for shipment across
Upper New York Bay
to New York.
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