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Fort Lee

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Fort Lee
1. a city in NE New Jersey. 32,449.
2. a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Virginia, NE of Petersburg.

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      borough (town), Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies mainly along the Palisades (Palisades, The) on the west bank of the Hudson River at the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge opposite upper Manhattan, New York City. The community developed about 1700 around Fort Constitution (later renamed Fort Lee). The Fort Lee Battle Monument marks the site of the fort, which was abandoned in 1776 during the American Revolution after an unsuccessful attempt by General George Washington (Washington, George) to stop the British fleet from sailing up the Hudson.

      The borough, now mainly residential, was from 1907 to about 1920 an important centre of early motion-picture (motion picture) production; photographic-film processing remains one of its major industries. The manufacture of pharmaceuticals, animal health products and feed, and printing products are also important to the area's economy. Inc. 1904. Pop. (1990) 31,997; (2000) 35,461.

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