Englewood Makes History

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  • Academies at Englewood was founded in 2002 after fifteen-plus-years of arguments between the Board of Education of Englewood and the Board of Education of Tenafly and the Board of Education of Englewood Cliffs. Dr. John Grieco created the new academies at Englewood to improve…
  • The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 in the aftermath of World War I. The organization's purpose is to support servicemembers and veterans.The organization advocates on behalf of those in military service, provides locations to gather, and provides programs to…
  • American Legion Henry Douglas Post 58 is the American Legion post located in Englewood, New Jersey.
  • The B.P.O.E. Englewood Elks Lodge #1157 was founded in 1909. Englewood residents who were members of the Hackensack Lodge organized another chapter for Englewood. The Hackensack Lodge helped organize the new Lodge for Englewood. The organization finished construction on its…
  • The newspaper The Evening Record began using the name in the late 1890s. Located in Hackensack, Bergen County, the newspaper published daily for Englewood, New Jersey. It has gone through a number of name variations.
  • BergenPac is a performing arts center and school. The original theater was a movie theater that opened in 1926. That theater closed in 1973 but was reopened through the efforts of John Harms. The John Harms Center opened on October 10, 1976. The center closed on April 14, 2003.…
  • The BergenPAC Performing Arts School is a dance, acting, visual arts, and music school run by the Bergen Performing Arts Center. Programs serve students from the age of three months to adults. The school is located down the street from the theater at 1 Depot Square where Bennett…
  • Bethany Presbyterian Church has been one of the most important institutions in the history of Englewood, New Jersey. For more than a century, the church has served as a center of worship, education, cultural life, and civic leadership within the city’s African American…
  • The Brooklyn Boys' Work Council was an organization that worked to help boys direct their future toward "the proper channels." The organization connected organizations that worked with young men such as city churches. Some of the organization's efforts went toward goals, such as…
  • The Catholic Daughters of America was founded in 1903 by John E. Carberry and the Knights of Columbus as a charitable sorority for catholic women.
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