Summit Avenue (Hudson Palisades)
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The Five Corners Branch Library in on Summit Avenue in Jersey City
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| Part of |
 CR 617
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| Length | 4.55 mi (7.32 km) |
| Location | Hudson County, New Jersey |
| Coordinates | 40°46′28″N 74°01′53″W / 40.77440°N 74.03128°WCoordinates: 40°46′28″N 74°01′53″W / 40.77440°N 74.03128°W |
| South end |
 CR 622 in Jersey City
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| Major junctions |
 Route 139 in Jersey City Route 495 in Union City
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| North end |
 CR 691 in Union City |
County Route 617 is 4.55 miles (7.32 km) long and follows one street, Summit Avenue along the ridge of the Hudson Palisades in Hudson County, New Jersey. Its southern end is CR 622, or Grand Street, at Communipaw Junction in the Bergen-Lafayette Section of Jersey City (although Summit Avenue continues one block south to Garfield and Communipaw Avenues without county maintenance). Its northern end is CR 691, 32nd Street, a section of the Bergen Turnpike, in Union City.
The route of the avenue follows a Lenape trail, used by the Hackensack Indians between their summer encampment at Communipaw on the Upper New York Bay and a more permanent settlement at Overpeck Creek. In the 16th century it was also used by early European settlers to region, first at Pavonia and later Bergen, that was part of the provincial colony of New Netherland. The ferry landing (nearby the present site of Liberty Science Center), was used by village on the bay as well the one on the hill (at today's Bergen Square) to travel to New Amsterdam. The trail continued north through Bergen Woods before descending and crossing the Hackensack Meadows.
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