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Newark is the most populous city in New Jersey with a 2020 census population of 311,549 and an estimated 317,303 residents in 2024, making it the 64th-most populous municipality in the United States and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1666 by Connecticut Puritans led by Robert Treat and incorporated as a city on April 11, 1836, Newark is one of the oldest cities in America, strategically located at the mouth of the Passaic River where it meets Newark Bay. The city serves as the county seat of Essex County and is home to Port Newark-Elizabeth, the primary container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the U.S. East Coast, as well as Newark Liberty International Airport, the first municipal commercial airport in the United States. Major corporations headquartered in Newark include Prudential, PSEG, Panasonic Corporation of North America, and Audible.com, while educational institutions include Rutgers University's Newark campus with law and medical schools, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Seton Hall University's law school. The city features cultural landmarks such as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Newark Museum of Art, and Branch Brook Park, which contains over 5,000 ornamental cherry trees - the nation's largest collection and the oldest county park in the United States. Morristown is the county seat of Morris County in northern New Jersey, with a 2020 population of 20,180, representing a 9.6% increase from 2010. Known as "the military capital of the American Revolution," the town gained strategic importance when General George Washington and the Continental Army encamped there from January to May 1777 after victories at Trenton and Princeton, selecting the location for its position between Philadelphia and New York, protection from British forces by the Watchung Mountains, and local resources to supply the army. The town was first settled around 1715 by English Presbyterians from New York and Connecticut as New Hanover and became the county seat when Morris County was created on March 15, 1739, named after royal governor Lewis Morris. Morristown's Revolutionary War heritage is preserved in Morristown National Historical Park, the country's first National Historical Park, featuring historic sites including Washington's headquarters at Jacob Arnold's Tavern on the Morristown Green. The town was formally incorporated on April 6, 1865, and separated from Morris Township in 1895, having been inhabited by the Lenni Lenape for up to 6,000 years before European settlement in the early 17th century. Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, with a 2020 population of 70,537, making it the state's 16th-most-populous municipality and the fifth-most densely populated city over 50,000 people in the nation with more than 22,000 residents per square mile. Located north of Newark on the Passaic River, the city was first settled by Dutch traders in 1678 as Acquackanonk Township, with its name deriving from the Lenape word "pahsayèk" meaning "valley" or "place where the land splits." Originally incorporated as a village in 1869 and chartered as a city in 1873, Passaic became a major 19th-century textile and metalworking center, famously hosting the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike led by organizer Albert Weisbord, which involved 36,000 mill workers. The Okonite company operated its headquarters and primary manufacturing plant in Passaic from 1878 to 1993, producing insulated wires for Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station and early telegraph cables. Passaic earned the nickname "The Birthplace of Television" after experimental television station W2XCD began transmitting from DeForest Radio Corporation in 1931, becoming the first television station to broadcast to homes and feature films.