Historic Paulus Hook Association
“A foundational principle we practiced from the learning sessions was the primacy of community input and feedback into the what and how of any project design.”
“Underground Jersey City: Where am I?” aims to uncover the living past of local historic sites, starting with pre-colonization of Lenape land in Paulus Hook and continuing through the nineteenth century. The Association coordinated a Community Advisory Board, sent out surveys, and hosted public meetings to engage the local community in the planning and content of their project. Through this process, their project team learned what aspects of Paulus Hook’s history the community found most compelling, and in the next stages of the project they plan to build an interactive ArcGIS map to help the public see where history happened in their own neighborhoods. They hope that this map will become the basis of a walking tour and inform future installation of site-markers throughout Paulus Hook and beyond in Jersey City.