Lake Hiawatha

Lake Hiawatha is an unincorporated community located within Parsippany-Troy Hills in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service as ZIP code 07034. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 070 34 was 9,360. The name was likely inspired by the popularity of The Song of HiaWatha, an 1855 poem by Longfellow which has little to no correlation with the historical figure of HIAwatha. The road was named for the 2,000-acre (3.125 mile) Beverwyck plantation, a slave plantation which was in operation from the 1730s to the early 1800s. Phebe Ann Jacobs (1785 - 1850) was "given to" Maria Malleville, the daughter of President Wheelock of Dartmouth college. Jacobs remained with the family until the death of Maria Allen, from which time she chose to live alone. Mrs. T. C. Upham, the wife of a theology professor at Bowdoin, met Jacobs and wrote the biography of her life. Jacobs died in Brunswick, February 28, 1850. The biography served as inspiration for author Harriet Beecher Stowe as she wrote 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The lake was completed in 1935. Developers redirected the Rockaway River into a lake and used the shoreline to construct summer houses and a meeting house for its country club.

Demographics

The U.S. population is growing at a rapid rate, according to a new study. It's the fastest-growing demographic group in the world. The population is expected to grow at a rate of 3.7% over the next decade. The U.N. estimates that the U.K. population will grow by 3.8% by 2050. The rate of growth will be the highest in the United States since the 1970s, the study says. The country's population is projected to grow by 4.5% by 2030. The growth rate is the fastest since the 1990s. The nation's population will reach a record-high of 4.7 million by 2050, the report says. That's up from 3.4% in 2000. The United States is expectedto grow by 2.9% in the coming decades. The world's population has grown by 1.6% in that time, the United Nations says, and the rate of population growth is the highest since the 1960s and 1970s. It is the world's fastest growing demographic group since the 1950s and 1960s. America's population growth has been the fastest in the last 50 years, the survey finds. The number of people living in America has grown from 1.3% to 1.7%. The population's growth rate has been about 3.6%. The United Nations estimates that it will reach 2.7 percent by 2030, up from 2.1% in 2007. The global population growth rate will be 2.4%.

History

Beverwyck Road is the central road that divides downtown Lake Hiawatha, containing the majority of its small businesses. The road was named for the 2,000-acre (3.125 mile) Beverwyck plantation, a slave plantation which was in operation from the 1730s to the early 1800s. Lenape tribes inhabited the lands for thousands of years prior to European arrival. Phebe Ann Jacobs (1785 - 1850) was "born a slave" on the Beverwyc plantation. Her biography served as inspiration for author Harriet Beecher Stowe as she wrote 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The lake was completed in 1935. Developers redirected the Rockaway River into a lake and used the shoreline to construct summer houses and a meeting house for its country club. In the 1920s, developers began developing the community, focusing on summer houses. By the 1960s, the lake had dried up and cabins were rebuilt into year-round homes. The town's first fire engine was purchased in 1948 by Benjamin J. Kline, who donated the funds needed to create the Lake HIAwatha Public Library. The library is located in a building on the north side of the lake, on the corner of Dacotah Avenue and Nokomis Avenue. It is open to the public and free to the general public. The public library is open from 9am to 5pm daily, except on Saturday and Sunday.

Geology

The Wisconsin Glacier covered the area from 21,000 to 13,000 BC. When the glacier melted due to climate change, Lake Passaic was formed. The Rockaway River flows over the Ramapo fault in Boonton and then flows along the northwestern edge of Lake Hiawatha. In this area, there are swamps near the river or in the area. The area was created when a chain of volcanic islands collided with the North American plate. The islands went over the North America plate and created the highlands of New Jersey. Around 450 million years ago, a small continent collided with proto North America and created folding and faulting in western New Jersey and the southern Appalachians. When the African plate separated from North America, this created an aborted rift system or half-graben. The land lowered between the Ramapole fault in western Parsippany and the fault that was west of Paterson. The lake slowly drained and much of the area is swamps or low-lying meadows such as Troy Meadows. It is now part of the U.S. National Park Service's New Jersey Open Space and Natural Area Program. The park is open to the public and offers a wide range of activities, such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching. It also offers a variety of outdoor activities such as fishing, kayaking, and camping. It has been home to the New Jersey Devils hockey team since the 1980s. The team is based at the Rutgers University N.J. campus.