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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HC_wortendyke-homesite_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
Frederick Wortendyke owned this land in 1723. It was once part of a large grant called the Tappan Patent. His son Jacob, who owned the homestead during the Revolutionary War, was taken captive in one of many British raids made in the area. Later o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YM_site-of-the-myers-bogert-grist-mill_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
Abraham Myers established a grist mill at this site on the Hackensack River prior to 1765. Inherited by son John who operated the mill until his death in 1829, it was continued by his son-in-law James Bogert. Long known as "Bogert's Mill", it rema…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4YG_garret-j-durie-house_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
An early 19th century example of Dutch Colonial architecture erected by Garret J. Durie on part of the estate of his father, John Durie. Garret J. Durie was a farmer whose 120 acre tract stretched eastward one mile to the Tenakill Brook. Located i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y3_abraham-d-blauvelt-homestead_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
The house and the kitchen wing were built about 1801 by Abraham D. Blauvelt who farmed the land. It came into possession of his niece, Catherine Blauvelt, wife of Richard J. Blauvelt, and remained in the family until 1891. In 1904 Herman Steinhoff…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y2_blanch-haring-house_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
Homestead of Isaac Blanch from about 1758 and site of his grist mill, both inherited in 1767 from his father, Richard Blanch, a native of England. Isaac was a Patriot official and member of the State Assembly during the Revolutionary War. He was t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WY_old-burying-ground_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
In use for nearly two hundred years, largely by the Blauvelt family, the earliest known burial was in 1722. The cemetery contains the graves of members of other early Bergen County families, veterans of the American Revolution and slaves. Some of …