Bergen County, New Jersey
Achenbach House
Ackerman House
Ackerman House
Ackerman House
Ackerman, Abram, House
Ackerman, David, House
Ackerman, Garret and Maria, House
Ackerman, Garret Augustus, House
Ackerman-Boyd House
Ackerman-Dater House
Ackerman-Demarest House
Ackerman-Dewsnap House
Ackerman-Hopper House
Ackerman-Smith House
Ackerman-Van Emburgh, House
Ackerman-Zabriskie-Steuben House
Ackerson, John G., House
Alcoa Edgewater Works
Anderson Outkitchen
Archibald-Vroom House
Arnault, Fridolin, House
Baldwin, David, House
Banta, Derick, House
Banta, John, House
Banta-Coe House
Bartholf, John, House
Beauclaire-Vreeland House
Beech Street School
Benson, John G., House
Berdan, G. V. H., House
Berdan, Richard J., House
Bergen County Court House Complex
BINGHAMTON (ferryboat)
Blackledge-Gair House
Blackledge-Kearney
Blanch, Capt. Thomas, House
Blanch-Haring House
Blauvelt House
Blauvelt House
Blauvelt House
Blauvelt-Demarest House
Bogert House
Bogert House
Bogert, Isaac, House
Bogert, John Jacob, House
Brinkerhoff House
Brinkerhoff-Demarest House
Cadmus House
Cadmus-Folly House
Cairns-Whitten-Blauvelt House
Campbell-Christie House
Carlock, J. J., House
Christie-Parsels House
Church of the Holy Communion
Church of the Madonna
Civil War Drill Hall and Armory
Cole-Allaire House
Concklin-Sneden House
Cooper, Thunise & Richard, House
Cooper, Tunis R., House
Crim-Tice House
Crocker-McMillin Mansion-Immaculate Conception Seminary
Cruse-Hossington House
Darlington Schoolhouse
De Clark, William, House
De Gray House
Debaun, Isaac, House
Debaun-Demarest House
Demaree, Abram, House
Demarest House
Demarest House
Demarest House
Demarest Railroad Depot
Demarest, Cornelius, House
Demarest, Daniel, House
Demarest, Jacobus, House
Demarest, John R., House
Demarest, Samuel R., House
Demarest, Thomas, House
Demarest-Atwood House
Demarest-Bloomer House
Demarest-Hopper House
Demarest-Lyle House
Demott-Westervelt House
DesMarest, Jacobus, House
Doremus House
Draw Bridge at New Bridge
Durie, Garret J., House
Durie, Garret, House
Durie, John P., House
Dutch Reformed Church at Romopock
Dutch Reformed Church in the English Neighborhood
Eckerson House
Edgewater Borough Hall
Edgewater Public Library
Erie Railroad Signal Tower, Waldwick Yard
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle River and Ramapough Building
Ferdon House
Folly House
Ford Motor Company Edgewater Assembly Plant
Foringer, Alonzo, House and Studio
Forshee-Van Orden House
Garretson, Peter, House
Garrison, Garret, House
Gethsemane Cemetery
Hardenburgh Avenue Bridge
Haring, Abraham A., House
Haring, Frederick, House
Haring, Gerrit, House
Haring, Nicholas, House
Haring, Teunis, House
Haring-Auryanson House
Haring-Blauvelt House
Haring-Blauvelt-Demarest House
Haring-Corning House
Haring-DeWolf House
Haring-Vervalen House
Hennion House
Hermitage, The
Hess, Harold, Lustron House
Hillsdale Station
Holdrum, William, House
Holdrum-Van Houten House
Hopper House
Hopper House
Hopper, Andrew H., House
Hopper, Garret, House
Hopper, Hendrick, House
Hopper, John, House
Hopper-Goetschius House
Hopper-Van Horn House
Huyler, Peter, House
Iviswold
Jefferson, Joe, Clubhouse
Kip Homestead
Lozier House and Van Riper Mill
Lydecker, Garret, House
Masker House
Maywood Railroad Station
Meyerhoff, John, House
Midland School
Myers-Masker House
Nagle, John, House
Naugle House
Naugle, Henry, House
Naugle, Isaac, House
New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company
New North Reformed Low Dutch Church
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad ALCO Type S-2 Locomotive #206
North Church
O'Blenis House
Oradell Station
Osborn, Garret K., House and Barn
Outwater, Richard, House
Packer House
Palisade Interstate Parkway
Palisades Interstate Park
Paramus Reformed Church Historic District
Park Ridge Station
Paulison-Christie House
Perry, Peter D., House
Post, Peter P., House
Presbyterian Church of Norwood
Pulis, Albert, House
Radburn
Radburn-Fair Lawn Station
Rathbone-Zabriskie House
Reaction Motors Rocket Test Facility
Reformed Dutch Church and Green
Reformed Dutch Church of Wyckoff
Ridgewood Country Club
Ridgewood Station
River Road School
Rockleigh Historic District
Romeyn-Oldis-Brinkerhoff House
Romine-Van Voorhis House
Rose, James, House
Roy, Dr. E. G., House
Rutherford Station
Saddle River Center Historic District
Seven Chimneys
Smith, Albert, House
Smith, John, House
South Church Manse
South Schraalenburgh Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Stagg, John C., House
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, House
Steuben Estate Complex
Steuben House
Stillwell-Preston House
Storms House
Tallman-Vanderbeck House
Taylor, Joseph, House
Tenafly Station
Terhune House
Terhune House
Terhune-Gardner-Lindenmeyr House
Terhune-Hopper House
Terhune-Hopper House
Terhune-Ranlett House
Theodore Roosevelt Monument
U.S.S. LING
Upper Closter-Alpine Historic District
Vaill, Edward W., House
Van Allen House
Van Blarcom - Jardine House
Van Blarcom House
Van Blarcom House
Van Blarcom, Albert, House
Van Buskirk, Andries Thomas, House
Van Buskirk, Laurance Thomas, House
Van Buskirk-Oakley House
Van Dien House
Van Dien, Harmon, House
Van Gelder House
Van Gelder, Abraham, House
Van Gelder, David, House
Van Horn, David & Cornelius, House
Van Horn-Ackerman House
Van Horn-Newcomb House
Van Houten House
Van Houten-Ackerman House
Van Houten-Ackerman House
Van Houten-Hillman House
Van Koert-Winters House
Van Voorhees-Quackenbush House
Van Voorhis-Quackenbush House
Van Winkle House
Van Winkle-Fox House
Van Zile House
Vandelinda, Adam, House
Vandelinda, James, House
Vanderbeck House
Vanderbeck House
Vanderbeck, Jacob, Jr., House
Vanderbeek House
Vervalen House
Vreeland House
Waldwick Railroad Station
Wandell, B. C., House-The Cedars
Wandell, F. L., Estate and Ward Factory Site
Ware, Dr. John Christie, Bungalow
Westervelt House
Westervelt, Benjamin P., House
Westervelt, Caspar, House
Westervelt, John, House
Westervelt, Peter, House and Barn
Westervelt-Ackerson House
Westervelt-Cameron House
Westervelt-Lydecker House
Westwood Railroad Station
White Tenant House
Williams, William Carlos, House
Winkle, Jacob W., House
Winters, Aaron, House
Winters-Courter House
Wittmer, William A., Lustron House
Woman's Club of Rutherford Clubhouse
World War I Monument
Wortendyke Barn
Wortendyke, Frederick, House
Wortendyke, Frederick, House
Wortendyke, Jacob, House
Wortendyke-Demund House
Yeareance, Jeremiah J., House
Yereance-Berry House
Zabriskie House
Zabriskie Tenant House
Zabriskie, Albert J., Farmhouse
Zabriskie, Garret, House
Zabriskie, Henry, House
Zabriskie, John A. L., House
Zabriskie, Nicholas, House
Zabriskie-Christie House
Zabriskie-Kipp-Cadmus House
1776: British Invasion of New Jersey
200 Years Later
9/11 First Responders Memorial
9/11 Memorial
9/11 Memorial
A Night of Savage Cruelty
A.B. Darling Mansion
Abatis Construction at Fort Lee
Abraham A. Haring House
Abraham D. Blauvelt Homestead
Abraham Godwin
Abraham P. Ackerman House
Ackerman Pell House
Ackerman-Boyd House
Ackerson Homestead
Acquacknonk Bridge
African American Baptist Church Cemetery
Allendale Veterans Monument
Along the Palisades Riverfront
American Brake Shoe Foundry
American Éclair Studios
Archibald Campbell Family Monument
Archibald Campbells Tavern
Archibald Vroom House
Armenian Genocide
Atkins Glen
Bank House
Bathing in the Hudson
Baylor Massacre Millstone
Baylor Massacre Park
Beech Street School
Benjamin P. Westervelt Homesite
Bergen County Court House / Bergen County Old Jail
Bergen County Old Jail
Between Two Brooks The Wortendyke Barn
Blanch-Haring House
Blauvelt-Seaman House
Bofor 40 MM Auto Cannon
Borough of River Edge
Brett Park / New Bridge Area
Brigadier General Enoch Poor
Brinkerhoff House
Brinkerhoff-Demarest House
British & Hessian Invasion
Brookside Chapel
Burdett's Landing
Cadmus House Museum
Camp Kitchen
Camp Merritt
Camp Merritt Memorial
Cannons
Capt. John H. Banta Homestead
Capt John Huylers Farm
Carlton Hill World War II Memorial
Carriage House and Stables
Cattails = Clay
Charles A. Bellon
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Memorial Plaza
Civil War Armory and Drill Hall
Claudius O. Collignon House
Clinton and Gore
Closter Dock Road
Closter Public School
Col. Richard Varick
Cole Allaire Boyd House
Comfort Women
Comfort Women
Continental Army Encampment
Cornwallis Headquarters
CPL Patrick E. "Pat" Lawlor
Dahlgren Gun
Daniel De Clark House
Darlington Schoolhouse Havemeyer Hall
David Van Gelder House
Days Tavern
De Mott Westervelt House
Dellbrook Estate, Baldwin Residence
Demarest Railroad Station
Demarest-Bloomer House
Derick Banta House
Detective James Zadroga
Douwe Talema
Dunkerhook Road
Dutch Reformed Church
Eckerson House
Ecology Along the Hackensack River
Edgewater Vietnam Veterans Monument
Edgewater World War I Monument
Edgewater World War II Memorial
Emerson Veterans Monument
English Neighborhood Reformed Church
English Neighborhood Road
English Neighborhood Union School
Everett-Dunn House
F. F. Fred Cavaliere
Fair Lawn Memorial Park
Fairview 9/11 Memorial
Fairview Firemans Memorial
Fairview Veterans Memorial
Ferryboat Binghamton
First House in Hackensack
First Presbyterian Church
First Reformed Church
Flax for Linen
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fort Lee Historic Park
Fort Lee Road
Franklin Avenue
Franklin Lake
Franklin Lakes United Methodist Church
French Burying Ground
Front Entrance
Garret Durie House
Garret J. Durie House
Gen. Enoch Poor
General Casimir Pulaski
General George Washington
General Henry Knox
General Horatio Gates
General Hugh Mercer
General John Black Jack Pershing
General Nathaniel Greene
George Washington Kneeling in Prayer
George Washington Memorial Monument
Gethsemane Cemetery
Gettysburg Address
Glen Rock
Glen Rock Honor Roll
Glen Rock Honored Heroes
Grave of Gen. Enoch Poor
Gravesite
Hackensack
Hackensack Soldier and Sailor Memorial
Hackensack War Memorial
Haglers Diner
Haring - DeWolf House
Harold Hess Lustron House
Harvey Springstead
Hendrick Van Allen House
Hendrik Van Allen House
Henry J. Werner
Hilderbrant Naugle House
Hillsdale Fire Department Monument
Hillsdale Police Booth
Hillsdale Veterans Monument
Historic First Reformed Church
Historic Glen Avenue
Historic New Bridge Landing
Historic New Bridge Landing
Historic New Bridge Landing
Historic New Bridge Landing
Historic New Bridge Landing
Historical Chronology 1776
History of the Hackensack Water Works
Hoage House
Holocaust
Holocaust and World War II Memorial
Holy Cross Cemetery Veterans Memorial
Honor Roll
Honor Roll World War
Hopper Family Burying Ground
Hopper Gristmill Site
Hopper Homestead
Hopper House
Hopper-Goetschius House
Huylers Landing Road
In Grateful Remembrance
In Honor Of Our Heroic Citizens
In Honor Of USS Enterprise (CV-6)
In Memory of Fair Lawn Police Officer Mary Ann Collura
Jacob Concklin House
Jacob J. Zabriskie House
Jacobus Demarest Homestead
Jacobus S. Demarest House
Jewish War Veterans Memorial
John A. Haring House
John G. Benson House
John Haring, Jr. House
John I. Hopper House
John McGarry
John Rutherfurd
Joseph Dubois House
Joseph H. Chapman Summer Residence
Kaiten Type II
Kinderkamack
Lark Anti-aircraft Missile
Laroe-Van Horn House
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller
Leisure Activities
Leonia Patent
Leonia Tract
Liberty Pole
Liberty Tree Memorial
Lower Closter or New Dock
Lozier House
Lutheran Church Site and Cemetery
Lyndhurst War Memorial
Mahwahs First Station
Mansion House
March to Trenton
Master Sergeant Charles E. Hosking, Jr. Memorial
Maywood N.J.
Memory of the Defenders of the Union
Military Magazine
Montvale Veterans Monument
Morlot Ave - 33rd St. Bridge Over the Passaic River
Mortar Battery
Musketry Breastwork
Nagel (Naugle) House
Nagel Auryansen Cemetery
Naugle House
Near this House of God
New Bridge
New Bridge
New Bridge
New Bridge Inn
New Bridge Landing
New Milford Veterans Memorial
New Milford World War I Memorial
North Arlington 9/11 Memorial
North Arlington War Memorial
North Gate
Oakland
Old Army Road
Old Burying Ground
Old Demarest House
Old Lutheran Cemetery
Old North Church
Old Paramus Reformed Church
Old Slave Cemetery
Old Spring Valley Burial Ground
Old Stone House
One-Room Schoolhouse
Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom
Oradell
Oradell Veterans Memorial
Oradell World War II Memorial
Palisades Amusement Park
Palisades Interstate Park
Paramus
Paramus Veterans Memorial
Paramus Veterans Monument
Pascack Historical Society Museum
Pascack Reformed Church
Passaic Street
Paulison Christie House
PBR Mark II River Patrol Boat
Peter A. Blauvelt House
Peter P. Post House
Piermont Road
Polaris A-1 Missle
Polifly Road
Pope John Paul II
Post Ford
Preserving the Palisades
Propaganda: The Mighty Pen
Protection of the Hudson River
Pulaski Drive
Radburn
Radburn Station
Ramapo Reformed Church
Ramapo Valley Road
Red Mill Paramus
Reformed Church of Closter
Regulus I SSM-N-8
Revolutionary War Cemetery
Revolutionary War Encampment 1780
Richard T. Cooper House
Ridgewood 9-11 Memorial
Ridgewood Station
Ridgewood Veterans Memorial
Riondas Tower
River Road School
Rockefeller Lookout
Rockefeller Lookout Panorama
Rockleigh
Rockleigh Road
Roelof Westervelt House
Roll of Honor
Rosencrantz Cotton Mills
Rutan-Terhune-Bidwell House
Rutherford Veterans of War
Rutherford Vietnam & Korea Memorial
Rutherford World War I Monument
Rutherford World War II Memorial
Saddle River 9 11 Memorial
Saddle River Reformed Church and Cemetery
Saddle River Veterans Monument
Saint Pauls Episcopal Church
Sautes Taves Begraven Ground
Schoolhouse Museum
Schraalenburgh Road
Seehund
Seven Chimneys
Sgt. Ralph W. Lester
Site of Bogerts Mill
Site of Hopper-Croucher Homestead
Site of Old Block House
Site of the Court-House & Jail
Site of the French Church and Cemetery
Site of the Myers-Bogert Grist Mill
Slave Burial Ground
Slave Cemetery
Slave House
Slavery
Sluckup
Solax Studios
Soldier Hill
Soldier Hut
Soldiers of the American Revolution
South Church
Stagg Homestead
Stephen T. Zabriskie House
Still on Patrol
Submariners Memorial
Talos SAM-N-6
Terhune-Gardner House
Terhune-Van Dien House
Terrier SAM-N-7
Teterboro Airport
Teunis Haring House
The (Von) Steuben House
The Ackerman House
The American Crisis
The Barbette Battery
The Baylor Massacre
The Bergen Trolley
The British General
The Campbell Christie House
The Christie-Parsels House
The Cleveland Bridge
The Closter Horseman
The Dutch of Bergen County
The Great Hunger
The Green
The Green
The Hamlet of Darlington
The Hermitage
The Huguenots
The Nauglel / Auryansen Cemetery
The Octagon House
The Old Alpine Trail
The Palisades
The Passaic River
The Price of Freedom: A Patriots Grave
The Red Brick Schoolhouse
The Rosencrantz Heritage
The Rutgers Bridge
The Stone Point
The Tenafly Railroad Station
The Third Continental Light Dragoons
The Valentine Homestead
The Winter Farmhouse
The Wortendykes
The Zabriskie House
The Bricks
Theodosia Bartow Prevost
Theresa Tessie McNamara
These are the times that try mens souls . . .
Thomas Paine
Timeline of Events at New Bridge in the American Revolution
Tower and Water Wheel of Easton Gardens
Tree of Life
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
U.S.S. Ling
U.S.S. Maine Memorial
U.S.S. Maine Memorial
Underwater MK16 Mine
United Spanish War Veterans
Untangling Folklore from Fact
USS Enterprise (CV-6) Stern Plate
USS Gudgeon (SS-211)
Van Buskirk Island County Park
Van Buskirk-Oakley House
Van Dien House
Van Hornes Grist Mill
Van Houten-Hillman House
Van Houten-Yeomans Homestead
Van Voorhees Quackenbush Zabriskie House
Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
Veterans Walk of Freedom
Victorian Tea Party
Vreeland House
Vriessendael
Waldwick Erie Interlocking Tower
Waldwick Railroad Station
Waldwick Tower
Walter Parcells Homestead
Wanamaker Utility Shed
Washington Spring
Washington Spring
Washingtons March
Washingtons Retreat to Victory
Washingtons Retreat to Victory
Washingtons Retreat to Victory
Washingtons Retreat to Victory
Water at the Hackensack Water Works
We Will Never Forget
Well-House
Westervelt-Demarest House
Westwood Fire Department Memorial
Westwood Veterans Monument
Westwood World War I Monument
Willat/Fox & Triangle Studios
William Holdrum, Jr., House
Wood-Ridge Veterans Monument
World/Peerless & Metropolitan Studios
Wortendyke Dutch Barn
Wortendyke Homesite
Wortendyke Homestead
Wortendyke Homestead
Wyckoff Reformed Church
Zabriskie-Christie House
Achter Col Colony
The Baylor Massacre
During the American Revolution, Bergen County played a significant role. British troops occupied parts of the county, and the area witnessed numerous skirmishes and battles. One notable event was the Battle of Fort Lee, where General George Washington ordered the evacuation of his troops in the face of a British attack. After the war, Bergen County experienced population growth, with more diverse groups of people settling in the area.
In the 19th century, Bergen County saw significant development and industrialization. The construction of the Erie Canal and later, the railroads, helped connect Bergen County to New York City and facilitated the growth of manufacturing and commerce. Towns like Hackensack, Englewood, and Paterson became important centers of industry and trade. Additionally, the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931 further enhanced the county's accessibility and spurred suburbanization.
Today, Bergen County is a bustling and thriving suburban region. It is known for its diverse communities, excellent educational institutions, and proximity to New York City. The county offers a wide range of recreational and cultural attractions, including parks, museums, shopping malls, and dining options. With a combination of historical significance and modern amenities, Bergen County remains an attractive place to live, work, and visit.
Brief timeline of the history of Bergen County, New Jersey:
- 1683 - Bergen County is established as one of New Jersey's original counties.
- 1660s-1700s - European settlers, primarily of Dutch and English descent, start to establish settlements in Bergen County.
- 1776-1783 - Bergen County plays a crucial role in the American Revolutionary War, with notable battles occurring at Fort Lee and New Bridge Landing.
- 19th century - Industrialization and urbanization lead to significant growth in Bergen County, attracting immigrants from various European countries.
- 1840 - The Northern Railroad of New Jersey opens, increasing connectivity and facilitating further economic development.
- 20th century - Suburbanization becomes a dominant trend, with many residents commuting to New York City for work.
- 1946 - Bergen Community College, the largest community college in New Jersey, is established.
- 1970s-1980s - Bergen County experiences a surge in population and construction, accompanied by commercial and retail development.
- 1990 - Bergen County's last remaining farm is sold, marking the end of the county's agricultural era.
- Present - Bergen County has a diverse population and is known for its wealth, cultural institutions, and proximity to New York City.
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Bergen County, New Jersey.