Newspaper Articles:

March 18, 1908 - The Irish Race of this City Now and Then

The Irish first came to Newark in the 1820's to build the Morris Canal. They populated many areas of the city, favoring the wards bordering the meadowlands.

The initial housing for the immigrants was in the form of decaying barns, carriage houses, warehouses, breweries and the other old dilapidated structures of the city.