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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMGO_site-of-old-block-house_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
Site of Old Block House Used As AFort And Indian Trading PostBuilt About 1697By Omey AckersonFirst Business BuildingIn ThePascack ValleyMarker Placed ByWampum Mill Chapter D.A.R. 1950
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZ8_the-dutch-of-bergen-county_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
"Bergen County is chiefly inhabited by Dutch people. There is a peculiar neatness in appearance of their homes, having an airy stoop supported by pillars in front, and their kitchens at the ends in the form of wings. The land is good and the soil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZ6_the-wortendykes_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
The first Wortendykes to settle this land were Dutch-American farmers. The Wortendykes were common people and little is known of their lives and work from written historical records. The major testimony to their time here is this barn, the house a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJZ3_between-two-brooks-the-wortendyke-barn_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
This barn and the house across the road were at the center of Frederick Wortendyke's farm. Frederick built them about 1770 on the eve of the American Revolution. He was a "Dutchman" who raised a large family here. He passed the farm on to his chil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJY1_pascack-reformed-church_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
Erected in 1813 on farmland purchased from the Campbell and Wortendyke families, the church had thirty-six original members. Dedicated in the Fall of that year by Dominie Stephen Goetschius, the first pastor, who called it a "beautiful and well-pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXZ_pascack-historical-society-museum_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
This building, dedicated December 8, 1873 by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was built through the efforts of James Leach, James Hall and Jacob, his son, for use as a Sunday school and mission chapel. In 1875 it became a Congregational Church. The first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXX_atkins-glen_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
The Glen is a deep ravine cut through sandstone rock by Bear Brook. Glen Road to thesouth follows an old Indian path up the hill called "Spook Bergh" (Ghost Hill) by the early Dutch. Tradition says that a cave in the sandstone rock, now almost fil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXT_wortendyke-dutch-barn_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
This pre-Revolutionary Dutch barn was built by the Wortendyke family. Once common in the Hudson River area, the barn is one of the few remaining in this country. Broader than deep, the structure is entirely supported by four H-frames tied with mas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXS_wortendyke-homestead_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
Frederick Wortendyke, Jr. built the original sandstone section of this farmhouse in the 1750's. Located at "Pascack" on land purchased by his father in 1735, the tract included nearly a third of present-day Park Ridge. The homestead was enlarged b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJXQ_ackerson-homestead_Park-Ridge-NJ.html
Built about 1800 by John Ackerson and son Garret, this stone house stands on land purchased in 1759. The property was developed during a century of family ownership. A general store was built opposite the house site in 1777 and successive generati…