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Hackensack is the most populous municipality and the county seat of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [12] [21] The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but has informally been known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century. [22]
Adam Boyd (1746–1835) represented New Jersey in Congress from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1808 to 1813. [8] George Cassedy (1783–1842), represented New Jersey in Congress from 1821 to 1827. [9] Enoch Poor (1736–1780), one of George Washington’s officers. [10]
Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area ...
Hackensack Township was a township that was formed in 1693 within Bergen County, New Jersey. The township was created by the New Jersey Legislature as one of the first group of townships in New Jersey. Bergen County, which had been created in 1682, was thus split into two parts: Hackensack Township to the north, and Bergen Township to the south.
Hackensack River, in New York and New Jersey, U.S. Hackensack Township, New Jersey , a former township in Bergen County, New Jersey Hackensack University Medical Center , a highly specialized tertiary-care hospital in Hackensack, New Jersey
The New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company was a water treatment and pumping plant located on Van Buskirk Island, an artificially created island in the Hackensack River, in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. [3] The site was purchased in 1881 by the Hackensack Water Company, which developed it for water supply use.
Freeholder Peter Zabriskie later donated land near his Hackensack home located at the northeast corner of Main and Bridge Streets, and in 1786, a new courthouse and jail opened. Peter Zabriskie's home, called “The Mansion” was also called “Washington’s Headquarters” because George Washington frequently was a guest there.
South Hackensack is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 2,701, [9] an increase of 323 (+13.6%) from the 2010 census count of 2,378, [18] [19] which in turn reflected an increase of 129 (+5.7%) from the 2,249 counted in the 2000 census.