Clifford Holland, for whom the Tunnel is named, was an innovator in the field of subaqueous construction, and, the story goes, he would join his workers down deep in the new holes dug under the river.  It was in the unfinished tunnel where he suffered a heart attack, and died, but it could not be said that Holland died in New Jersey, nor that he died in New York, because at his stricken moment Holland stood upon the exact border between the two states.