Scope and ContentThe Hoboken & Weehawken Horse Rail Road Company, one Ten Dollar share, issued Hoboken, N.J., May 28, 1860; share no. 52. Engraved stock certificate, printed in black, red overprint; 9-1/4" high x 13-1/4" high (bottom is trimmed where the thirty dividend warrants would typically have been printed [annexed] - see notes); green paper seal with blind corporate emboss. Map of region and route is printed in center panel on reverse (as certificate was intended to be folded in thirds.) Signed by President J.H. Bonn and Secretary Charles Spielmann. (John Hillric Bonn, 1829-1891, was a Weehawken and vicinity real estate developer and street railway entrepreneur.) With: dividend warrant no. 1 signed by J[acob]. Schweitzer, Treasurer. Clipped coupon, 2" x 3" including margins, punched hole, pin holes (note pin holes on warrant and certificate line up) This company began construction in August 1860 and commenced operations in December of that year. It was not the first surface transportation company in Hoboken. (See library 2002.214.0006: The North Hudson County Railway. By Edward T. Francis & George W. Walrath. An illustrated article being the entire issue of The Marker, Vol. 5, No. 2, Sept. 1946. Issued by North Jersey Chapter, National Railway Historical Society.) By 1865, under Bonn, this company and two others were combined to become the North Hudson Railway Company, a predecessor to Public Service. Bonn was the driving force in surface transportation in this county for the rest of his life. The map on the back shows the route running from the Hoboken ferry at the south end of Hoboken (a Stevens family business) up Washington Street to Lower Road. Passing through Union Hill and North Hoboken to end at a Bonnsville. Included on this map are Weehawken, Guttenberg, North Guttenberg, West New York, New Durham (Flower Hill Cemetery), Weavertown and West Hoboken. As Bonn plus his main investors were in real estate speculation (see attached PDF with 1891 obituary), Bonnsville and North Hoboken were names for land developments and not real towns. They have not been seen on other maps. Hudson River is shown with 3 ferry routes from Hoboken (to Barclay St., Canal St., Christopher St.) and ones from Weehawken (42nd St.) and Guttenberg (no destination given.) While Hoboken is laid out in a full street grid, most of the streets did not actually exist in 1860. Vignette view of Hudson Place, Hoboken, (Ferry Street) with horse cars shown with the horse car railroad terminal adjacent to the the ferryhouse (terminal) which has a clock tower. The block long building depicted on the west side of the Hudson Place at River Street is rather grand at 4 stories. At the the left are mansarded houses on River St.