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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  • Arnold Brown was born on April 12, 1932, in Englewood, Brown's family had deep roots in New Jersey and Englewood. Arnold’s great-great-grandfather, John Brown, was born into the Ramapough Munsee Lenape Nation. His five-time great-grandparents James and Catherine Oliver settled…
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  • William E. Brown Jr. was a Lieutenant General of the Allied Air Forces Southern Europe and the deputy commander in chief of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe for the Southern Area. He attended Dwight Morrow High School and was a member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church. Brown…
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  • The Building Trades Strike in 1900 was a strike in New Jersey in which thousands of carpenters, painters, and decorators protested low compensation. In Englewood masons and laborers demanded an increase of twenty-five cents a day and shorter hours on Saturdays. 
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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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  • The following is a description of Charles H. Bullock written by his granddaughter Cheryl Ann. "My grandfather Charles H. Bullock Jr. was born in 1903 in Charlottesville Virginia. He was the second to oldest of six children. His father Charles Sr. was Secretary of the Carlton…
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  • Margaret Butler was an economics teacher in Englewood. She taught the fifth grade in Harlem and home economics at Dwight Morrow High School. Butler became blind in 1945 and was an instructor at the Community House Social Service Federation in Englewood, teaching braille. She…
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  • William Butler was a prominent African American political leader and community advocate in Englewood, New Jersey, during the 1920s and early 1930s. Born in South Carolina and raised from boyhood in New York City, Butler brought to Englewood a political outlook shaped by both the…

  • Karen Juanita Carrillo is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York, who frequently presents on topics related to African American and Afro-Latino history, culture, and politics. Throughout her journalism career, she has helped bring greater attention to Black communities across the…
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