Credit J. L. G. Ferris (1863-1930)

Wherever social order is tied to inherited rank, a newborn heir or heiress embodies the hope of dynastic continuity and constitutional stability. Therefore, wherever monarchy and nobility...

Credit Kevin Wright

By Kevin Wright©2013 Would generational change bring innovation to an ancient industry? Brickmaker Isaiah M. Gardner died at his home on Hudson Street, Hackensack, on April 9, 1912, ...

Credit Unknown

By Kevin Wright ©2013 By early February, midway between winter solstice and spring equinox, peoples of the northern hemisphere watch eagerly for the first harbingers of spring. ...

Credit Bergen County Historical Society Papers and Proceedings, 1902

By Kevin Wright©2011 Firms producing brick along the Hackensack River for the New York market at the start of 1909 comprised: Charles E. Walsh, of Hackensack, with a single machine; ...

Credit Deborah Powell

In the end, tide and time worked against us.   Four feet of water from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded three rooms full of Bergen County's history, stored in a Hudson County wa...