History, News and Stories of Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

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• 1844 - Hackensack
  This township is 10 miles long, with a width varying from 3 to 5 miles. It is bounded N. by Harrington, B. by Hudson river, S. by part of Hudson co., and W. by Lodi and New Barbadoes. On the E. the Palisades skirt along the Hudson. The W. part is generally level, and contains much meadow-land in... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1854 - Hackensack
  Hackensack, a post-township of Bergen county, New Jersey, on the Hudson river, about 10 miles N. from New York. Pop., 3486.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
• 1859
  HACKENSACK, a village in the co. of Bergen, in the state of New Jersey, 14 m. N by W of New York, on the W side of a river of the same name, which rises in Rockland lake, and flows in a S course of 40 m. to Newark bay. Pop. of v. 1,000.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
•   1884 - Mrs. Elizabeth A. Thornton, of Hackensack, N. J., recently celebrated her one hundredth birthday.
  She distinctly recalls the visit of Lafayette to Camden to lay the corner-stone of the DeKalb monument. - N. Y. Sun.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  May 24, 1884
  
• 1895 - Hackensack
  Hack'ensack, a post-village, capital of Bergen co., N.J., on the Hackensack River, and on the New Jersey Midland and New Jersey & New York Railroads, 12 miles N. of New York, and 7 miles S.E. of Paterson. It contains a court-house, 11 churches, a bank, 3 newspaper offices, and several... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1901 - HACKENSACK ARMORY BURNED. NATIONAL GUARD DANCE WAS IN PROGRESS WHEN FIRE STARTED - BUILDING ALSO THE OPERA HOUSE.
  Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 26. - The Hackensack Armory, which was also the Opera House, was destroyed by fire tonight, and shortly after midnight the side walls began to tumble in. The building had been Hackensack's pride for a number of years, and when it was sold under foreclosure proceedings a... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1909 - June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States.
  With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
  
  historyorb.com
  June 9, 1909
  
• 1916
  Hackensack, a banking post-town, capital of Bergen CO., N.J., on the Hackensack River and on the New York, Susquehanna and Western and the New Jersey and New York Rs., 12 miles N. of New York. It has iron- and carriage-works and manufactures of silk, wall-paper, and jewelry. Many New York... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1917 - 3 TROLLEY CARS CRASH. FOG CAUSES ACCIDENT ON HACKENSACK TRESTLE - MOTORMEN MAY DIE.
  Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 27. - Three trolley cars met in a crash on a trestle over the Erie Railroad this morning. As a result, the three motormen are in the hospital in a serious condition.
  
  There is a single track on the trestle, and as a car enters it a signal is flashed. A heavy fog hid the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1921 - Truck Catches Fire
  James Mack, 35, years old, was burned to death, and Ernest Starke, 21 years old, received burns from which he died later in Hackensack Hospital, when an automobile truck driven by Mack turned over about five miles south of Hackensack and caught fire early yesterday morning. The men, both of whom... Read MORE...
  
  
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