Englewood Makes History

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  • Brookside Cemetery is a burial ground established in 1876 by Englewood Residents. The original plot of land was six acres before the trustees purchased nineteen more acres on the west side of Engle Street. The chapel near the cemetery was built in 1860 and donated to the…
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  • Pandora’s Book Peddlers was a distinctive, community-rooted independent bookstore that played an outsized cultural role in Englewood and northern New Jersey beginning in the early 1980s. Founded in October 1983 by partners Pamela Sheldrick and Vivian Scheinmann, the shop was…
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  • The Dwight Morrow Estate, also eventually called the Next Day Hill, where the Morrow family lived in Englewood was a forty-two-acre property. At the time of Elisabeth Cutter Reed Morrow's Death, thirty acres were located in Englewood and ten acres in Tenafly. After the passing…

  • Opened in 1987, Almay's was Bergen County's first Caribbean Restaurant. Owned by Alvin Whilby, the restaurant was located at 98 West Palisade Avenue.
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  • The Bullock Funeral Home was created by Charles H. Bullock Jr. One was open in Hackensack and one was open in Englewood.
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  • Crystal Lake is a lake and park on East Sheffield Avenue in Englewood.

  • Millers Pond is a body of water near Liberty Road and Dwight Morrow High School. Historically there have been pollution issues with the pond.
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  • Abel I. Smith bought a large section of land in Secaucus in 1733. The Farm was 206 acres of the wester Hudson Palisades. The Smiths owned the land until December 1, 1908 when it was turned over to B.M. Shanley's Sons' Company and H.S. Korbaugh Company of West Virginia for…
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  • Bennigans is an Irish pub food chain. There was a restaurant in Englewood on 412 South Van Brunt Street.
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  • The New Englewood Hotel opened on May 1, 1893. The building was owned by Eliza McGrath Sanderson and was leased by S. C. Stafford. The building burned down in November of the same year.
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