Snake Hill Volume I: The Nineteenth Century

Did you know... Snake Hill is located in Secaucus, New Jersey, less than 15 minutes from Times Square through the Lincoln Tunnel. As early as 1874, Hudson County had horse-drawn ambulances made specifically to transport smallpox patients to Snake Hill. A 1909 map of the Hudson County facility shows two burial grounds on the east side near County Road, the road to Jersey City. At the very top of “the Hill,” a 430,000 gallon reservoir provided water for “state of the art” sewage management as well