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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM464_hackensack-war-memorial_Hackensack-NJ.html
Erected in 1924 by the people of Hackensack in Memory of its soldiers and sailors who fought in the wars of the United States of America.
[Four panels around the monument's base depict different American wars]
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM463_site-of-the-court-house-jail_Hackensack-NJ.html
Burned by the enemy 1780Erected byThe Bergen CountyHistorical Society 1922
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM460_bergen-county-court-house-bergen-county-old-jail_Hackensack-NJ.html
[Bergen County Court House Side]:James Riely Gordon (1863-1937), noted architect of public buildings used the Beaux Arts style to reflect the power and dignity of American institutions of government and justice. Ground was broken November 29, 1909…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45Y_the-green_Hackensack-NJ.html
Hackensack was a small village centered around The Green which served as a strategic point during the American Revolution.
Washington headquartered here in November 1776 while he surveyed the local roads and bridges.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45X_the-green_Hackensack-NJ.html
Gift of John Berry, 1696. It became the village center of New Barbadoes Township, now Hackensack. Later a public park.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45W_brinkerhoff-house_Wood-Ridge-NJ.html
Located in old "Polifly", George Brinkerhoff built this house about 1792 on a 200 acre farm he purchased in 1784. Owned in 1806 by son Henry G. and in 1849 by his son, Enoch, a N.J. Assemblyman. In the 1870's, great-grandson Henry E. remodeled the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45V_john-i-hopper-house_Hackensack-NJ.html
Built in 1818, by John I. Hopper in old "Polifly", this Federal style house stands on land purchased in 1694 by his great-grandfather Hendrick. The farm remained in the Hopper family for seven generations. Slaves lived in the kitchen wing on the n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45U_teterboro-airport_Teterboro-NJ.html
The home of Gates Flying Circus. Teterboro built Fokker tri-motors flown by Richard E. Byrd over the North Pole (1926); South Pole (1929); Atlantic (1927); and by Amelia Earhart over Atlantic (1928). Clarence Chamberlin, Ruth Nichols, Floyd Bennet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45R_stevens-institute-of-technology_Hoboken-NJ.html
This land was a part of the Island of Hoboken which was deeded on Feb. 15, 1663 by Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam, for the benefit of his sister Anna, Widow of Samuel Bayard of Amsterdam.
In 1784, these 564 acres belonging to Wil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45P_van-kirk-park_Oceanport-NJ.html
In memory ofJohn Stewart Van KirkLieutenant 141 Armored Signal Company1st Armored DivisionKilled in Action 30 November 1942Djedeida, Tunisia