Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 4485
Land area (2000): 3.678535 sq. miles (9.527362 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.678535 sq. miles (9.527362 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51810
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.700501 N, 74.403096 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07974
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
New Providence
Housing Units (2000): 107
Land area (2000): 1.002920 sq. miles (2.597551 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.002920 sq. miles (2.597551 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56415
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.281891 N, 93.170875 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50206
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
New Providence
Wikipedia
New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It houses the national capital city of Nassau. The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed little interest in developing the island (and the Bahamas as a whole). Nassau, the island's largest city, was formerly known as Charles-town, but it was burned to the ground by the Spanish in 1684. It was laid out and renamed Nassau in 1695 by Nicholas Trott, the most successful Lord Proprietor, in honor of the Prince of Orange-Nassau who became William III of England. The three branches of Bahamian Government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary, are all headquartered on New Providence. New Providence functions as the main commercial hub of the Bahamas. It is also home to more than 400 banks and trust companies, and its hotels and port account for more than two thirds of the four million-plus tourists who visit the Bahamas annually. Other settlements on New Providence include Grants Town, Bain Town, Fox Hill, Adelaide, Yamacraw, South Beach, Coral Harbour, Lyford Cay, Paradise Island, Sea Breeze, Centreville, The Grove (South) and The Grove (West Bay), Cable Beach, Delaporte, Gambier, and Love Beach.
New Providence is an island in the Bahamas. It may also refer to:
- New Providence, New Jersey
- New Providence, Iowa
- New Providence (horse)
- New Providence, Pennsylvania, a community in Pennsylvania
New Providence is a New Jersey Transit station in New Providence, New Jersey along the Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex line. The original 1899 station, built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad still stands. New Providence Station is located across from the intersection of Old Springfield Avenue and Division Avenue. Springfield Avenue was rerouted north of the station in 1931. The former segment of Springfield Avenue on the opposite side of the tracks has been turned into an additional parking lot.
The station was originally named West Summit until March 1927, as the borough of New Providence felt there was confusion for not being on railroad timetables. The station rename was granted despite the fact that there was opposition by residents of Summit on renaming the station.
New Providence (1956–1981) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who in 1959 became the first official winner of the Canadian Triple Crown.
Retired to stud duty at owner E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, he met with reasonable success and is best known as the damsire of European Champion Storm Bird who in turn sired Storm Cat.
New Providence died in 1981 and is buried at Windfields Farm.
Usage examples of "new providence".
The compartmentation creaked, and I knew we were well into New Providence Channel, where we would take the sweep of the weather.
I remembered the names on the stone slabs behind the ruins on New Providence Road.
The men were sent on board of a hulk, the vessel thoroughly cleansed and fumigated, and finally, we were ordered as far north as New Providence.
At the time, New Providence was defended by two stone forts manned only by civilian volunteers.
Ice, however, prevented him from dropping down Delaware Bay, and so instead (having been given great latitude in his operations) he decided to make a surprise attack on New Providence in the Bahamas and capture gunpowder and arms.
We arrived at Nassau, in New Providence, without any remarkable incident, although the service continued to be carried on in the same disagreeable manner as ever.
We had resolved to attempt to make New Providence, the largest of the Bahama group, where we knew that there was a town called Nassau, and from whence we hoped to obtain some conveyance to Europe.
To build that house on New Providence Road, Sylvan had the ancestral house in England taken apart stone by stone and brick by brick, and he shipped all those stones and bricks across the sea and put them back together again exactly the way they were in the old days.
Yet he had not known that I would give away three-quarters of what had come to me from Toby Kraft, and he had been surprised to hear of my visit to New Providence Road.
It was our second day on the Ocean Princess, and later in the morning, the ship was going to dock at New Providence Island in the Bahamas.
On 222 he drives south through Refton, Hessdale, New Providence, and Quarryville, through Mechanics Grove and Unicorn and then a long stretch so dull and unmarked he doesn’.
If the Ranyhyn did not surprise her with some new providence, she would have no choice but to risk dangers which had dismayed him.