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| | | | | |  | | | | We have begun a fundraising drive to raise money to meet the challenge to preserving Bergen County's rich history. We seek the support of caring and interested persons and public-spirited businesses. We will be kicking off a coin drive by the school children of New Jersey in October 2008. We hope to raise the funds to build a safe museum environment where we can professionally conserve, research and exhibit the Bergen County Historical Society's collection. You can start now...find out how! | | | | | | | | | |
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A new brochure with map and history of HNBL. 1.1 mg pdf. | | | |  | | | 8-1/2 x 14" Legal Size | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | |  | | | Petition on Behalf of Name Change at New Jersey Transit Station in River Edge. Members of the BCHS, Historic New Bridge Landing Park Commission, elected representatives and members of the public will meet with New Jersey Transit representatives to discuss changing the name of the "North Hackensack" train station in River Edge to "Historic New Bridge Landing". We consider this to be a huge step in promoting New Bridge and its history. We would like you to support us in this effort.
Simply send an email to contactBCHS@bergencountyhistory.org with your name, address and indicate any affiliation you choose (like BCHS member, River Edge resident, etc.). Let us know that you would like your name added to this petition by September 15th. For more info, please see pdf. http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/pdfs/HNBL_TrainStationFlyer.pdf http://www.newbridgelanding.org/ | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | |  | | | | | | The Bergen Dutch were an agricultural community who settled and farmed the valleys of the Hackensack, Saddle and Passaic Rivers, beginning in 1640. The Campbell-Christie and Demarest Houses display a small part of the BCHS collections (objects made or used in Bergen County from 1680 to 1860) which span folk art, ladderback chairs, Hackensack cupboards, kasten (Dutch cupboards), redware pottery, coverlets, quilts and spoonboards. Shown here: Pen and ink of the Court House by an inmate at the Bergen County jail, dated 1819. Includes scenes of the gardens.
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| | | | The BCHS message board is an online forum for queries, discussions, and alerts about Bergen County history. Enter your event or look for an activity in the Calendar. List your BC history-related website in History Links. Anyone can browse the forums, but you must register to post messages. Registrants may also receive periodic e-newsletters.
Please join us. The more participants, the better! To contact BCHS, email us to below address.
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| | | The Bergen County Historical Society (BCHS), a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization, promotes preservation, study and appreciation of local history. Beginning in 1939, our museum collections were displayed at the Steuben House, a State Historic Site. The house is now closed. Many of the 4,000 items in the collection are in storage. The Campbell-Christie House, a Bergen County Historic Site, is located on land leased from the BCHS. BCHS operates the historic house museum and provides programing. Other activities include placement of informative roadside historic markers, educational events, museum exhibits, monthly lectures, and a library collection. For a more complete description of BCHS.
Are you a member? Here's how to join. Or scroll down to learn more. BCHS Board 2007-2008
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| | New Bridge was a prosperous mill hamlet, centered upon a bridge strategically placed at the narrows of the Hackensack River, Bergen County, New Jersey.
The Steuben House, Campbell-Christie House and Demarest House are landmarks of Bergen Dutch sandstone architecture, popularly called "Dutch Colonial" and frequently seen and admired throughout northern NJ. The Steuben House still stands on its original site. The Steuben House is closed until further notice, due to flood damage to building and collections.
Visit the HNBL Park Commission's new website.
We'd love to hear about your experience visiting HNBL.
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| | | |  | | | Crossing at New Bridge, Washington saved his army from its certain defeat in November 1776, inspiring Thomas Paines' American Crisis. New Bridge was a strategic river crossing throughout the American Revolution. Its homes served as military headquarters. Deadly skirmishes echoed about its walls, earthworks were thrown upon its hills, and consuming armies camped upon its fields. Soldiers passed this gateway so often that the Steuben House is said to have seen more of the Revolution than any other house in America. | | | | | | |
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| | | |  | | | | See the Past come alive! | | | | | | Time Traveller in the Garden State
An Artist Looks at Historic Sites, Space and Time
Despina Metaxatos will explore the ways in which physical space impacts many aspects of our lives—our daily routine, our perceptions, and especially our mental space. “History is experienced as nostalgia, and nature as regret – as a horizon fast disappearing behind us”, writes French philosopher Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space. As physical space is usurped by virtual, abstract screen space, the concrete acquires that aura of nostalgia in historic sites, where the visible past punctures our present grid. Held at the Second Reformed Church
See events page for more info | | | | | | |  | | | Spook Bridge & the Legends of New Bridge
Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 7:00-9:00 pm.
Enjoy an evening of haunted history and a dramatic presentation from Francis Koehler’s Hilda: A Romance of the Revolution, a tale of New Bridge. Rain or shine. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | |  | | | | | | | The Society's Library collection comprises family genealogy, diaries, and manuscripts; church, cemetery, and bible records; books, clippings, and on local and county history, the Revolutionary War, and historic architecture; postcards, photos, videos, atlases, and maps. They are located at Felican College (Lodi campus library) and available regularly once a week. Click here for a more complete description of collections and directions. No microfilm census records.
Open Wednesdays, 11:30 am to 5:00 pm (Staffed by BCHS volunteers)
Closed for month of August.
Research articles of interest - Please remember to obey US copyright laws. The articles have been previously published in BCHS newsletters. | | |  | | | | | | | | | | BCHS Newsletter – Spring 2008 (pdf) HNBL Train Stop, Outhouse History, Bergen Trolley, A Century Ago, Colonial-era Broadside | | | BCHS Newsletter – Winter 2007-2008 (pdf) Marker Program, Collecitons, A Century Ago, Important Donations, Blockhouses and Chaos, Teaneck House BCHS Newsletter – Winter 2006-2007 (pdf) Modern Steuben House history, Haworth House, Marginalia From Ancient Almanacs, Zabriskie Mystery, Franklin Lakes’ Contribution to The Battle of the Atlantic BCHS Newsletter - Winter 2006 (pdf)
Article on Tenafly, Frank A. Morrison Indian Artifact Collection and a Century Ago BCHS Newsletter - Spring 2005 (pdf)
articles on Rev War Massacre at the Steuben House, 1780 events at New Bridge, Hackensack Raid in 1780 and a Century Ago BCHS Newsletter - Fall 2004 (pdf)
articles on Indian Castle at New Bridge, Nike Base NY & Dear Friends by Ruth Paci and a Century Ago | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Website created by Deborah Powell, contact: contactBCHS@bergencountyhistory.org
Will forward questions to be answered by all-volunteer organization. This site updated 10/05/08
Painting of site by L.Feigel. Painting of Retreat by B.Spencer Newman. All photos by D. Powell unless otherwise noted. Bergen County Historical Society
P.O. Box 55, River Edge, New Jersey 07661 • www.bergencountyhistory.org
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