The southeastern portion is comprised mostly of salt meadow. Pink, yellow, green, and orange colors differentiate the school districts. "Lodi Township" Lithograph map, with added color, 40.6 × 31.4 cm. Cook recommended that the state collaborate with New York counterparts to straighten the line and mark it with permanent monuments. 1 Bowser found that the original line, as traced in 1774 with a surveyor's compass (see example in the "Perspective" section), was crooked due to magnetic variations of the needle. Cook, the state's geologist, in a report to Joel Parker, the state's governor. Bowser for the New Jersey Geological Survey and reported by George H. The "new" northern boundary line with New York State at the top of the map ("Line Run by Professor Cook in 1874") is the result of a survey done in July and August 1874 by Professor Edward A. Hatching marks along the entire Hudson River boundary of the county identify the Palisades. The Ramapo, Saddle Brook, Passaic, and Hackensack Rivers traverse the map railroad lines are equally prominent. Pale pink, yellow, green, and orange colors distinguish the growing number of townships, now totaling thirteen: Englewood, Franklin, Harrington, Hohokus, Lodi, Midland, New Barbadoes, Palisade, Ridgefield, Ridgewood, Saddle River, Union, and Washington. "Outline Map of Bergen County New Jersey." Lithograph map, with added color, 40.9 × 66.3 cm. "Tillietudlum," nearby on the Hudson River, was named for the estate of Francis Redding Tillou, who ran a ferry service to New York City from his landing (shown on the map). This village is at a convenient distance from New York, by a good road, which, through a very pleasant country, affords a very agreeable drive on a summer's afternoon, to the business-worn citizens. from Hackensack-town, and 5½ from Hoboken, on the turnpike road to Hackensack contains a post-office, a Dutch Reformed church, and a church of Chris-ti-ans, 3 taverns, 2 stores, and from 15 to 20 dwellings. (For more on the Survey's role in the geodetic surveying of New Jersey, see the prior discussion of the 1888 state atlas.)ġ834: English Neighborhood, pleasant village, of Hackensack t-ship., Bergen co., 5 miles S.E. Coast Survey, charged by Congress to chart the entire American coast, was run through English Neighborhood. During the early colonial era, this was the first primarily English-speaking area on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. Next to the H in "Hackensack" township, at the bottom right, lies English Neighborhood, today's Englewood. The soil is good, abundantly watered & generally well timbered." This first view looks up at the cliffs from the Palisades Interstate Park near the base of the George Washington Bridge the other one looks north from the top of the Palisades at State Line Lookout near the New York State border. The western Slope is a succession of Terraces. The summit level is nearly half a mile wide, & is accessible for Carriages at nearly all points. at the River front affording very extensive views. A note in the Harrington Township area of the map describes the palisade ridge along the Hudson River as having "an elevation of from 350 to 450 ft. The map locates numerous Civil War–era landowners.Ģ013: Palisades. Rivers, roads, and railroad lines radiate across the rudimentary topography-relief is shown by hachures, wetlands by symbols of grass growing out of water. (The plan of Pascack appears twice.) City business directories are provided for Paterson, Carlstadt, and Passaic. Smaller insets (with no scales given) of twelve other boroughs/villages circle the central map (_in clockwise order_): Little Falls (P), Godwinville (B), Carlstadt (B), Bloomingdale (P), Lodi (B), Pascack (B), Hohokus (B), Englewood (B), Charlotteburg (P), Fort Lee (B), Pascack (B), West Milford (P), and Pompton Furnace (P). At top right and bottom left, there are detailed insets of the three major cities of Paterson and Passaic (Passaic County), and Hackensack (Bergen County). At this time, Bergen had nine townships, colored blue, yellow, green, or pink: Franklin, Hackensack, Harrington, Hohokus, Lodi, New Barbadoes, Saddle River, Union, and Washington. A thick pink line marks its border with Passaic County. Scale: 1 mile to 1.5 inches.įirst wall map of Bergen County. Wall map, with ornamental border and added color, 139 × 113 cm. "Map of the Counties of Bergen and Passaic, New Jersey: From Actual Surveys" (Philadelphia: G. New Jersey Counties: First Wall Maps and Atlases Bergen County County Dataįounded: 1683, one of the four original counties of East Jersey New Jersey Counties: First Wall Maps and Atlases (1849–1882).State of New Jersey: First Wall Maps and Atlases (1812–1888).Nova Cæsarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State 1666-1888
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