Riverbank Park
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Riverbank Park, is located in Newark
, New Jersey
. The park was opened in 1907 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
on April 16, 1998. The baseball fields are on the former location of the Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
, one of the largest metal processing companies in the country, which closed in the 1920s.
It is the smallest and one of the most heavily used parks in the Essex County Park System.
In August 2011, plans were announced to expand the park along the Passaic River
.
Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. The park was opened in 1907 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
on April 16, 1998. The baseball fields are on the former location of the Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company was a smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
, one of the largest metal processing companies in the country, which closed in the 1920s.
It is the smallest and one of the most heavily used parks in the Essex County Park System.
In August 2011, plans were announced to expand the park along the Passaic River
Passaic River
The Passaic River is a mature surface river, approximately 80 mi long, in northern New Jersey in the United States. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey,...
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See also
- Kearny Riverbank ParkKearny Riverbank ParkKearny Riverbank Park is a municipal linear park along the Passaic River in Kearny, New Jersey. It is located in the Kearny Uplands north of Bergen Avenue and was extended to Belleville Turnpike in 2011 with brownfield reclamation projects...
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey