Raven (Ravenverse)

Raven, New Jersey is an American city located on the coast of New Jersey that has a long history, spanning from it's foundation by colonists of varied ethnic backgrounds to it's rise of dominating industry.

Colonial Period / Revolutionary War Period (1700s - 1780s)
Raven was originally founded as Raven Towyne by British, German, Dutch, and Italian colonists sometime in the early 1700s or 1710s. In 1713, the southern neighborhood of Bundershapten was founded by the Germans and the Dutch and became a center of Germanic culture.

In 1720, Samuel Clemens was appointed the administrator of Raven by the British authorities. 16 years later he became the "Mayor of Raven Towyne" and conducted the 1750 census of Raven Towyne, deeming that it had a population of 12,000 people.

In 1777, two British battalions lost while marching to Pennsyvlania to face George Washington instead marched into Raven Towyne. A Patriot militia of 500 men and women was assembled to face off against the nearly 900 well-supplied British soldiers in what became known as the Battle of Raven.