Hackensack, New Jersey
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Hackensack Schools
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Hackensack H.S. First Street Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-7890 |
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Voc & Tech High 200 Hackensack Avenue Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 343-6000 |
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5 and 6 School Richard Vega, Principal 321 State Street Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-8170 |
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Memorial School Andrea Oates-Parchment, Principal Dyer Avenue Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 440-2783 |
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Middle School 360 Union Street Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-7842 |
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Jackson Avenue School Robert Corrado, Principal 421 Jackson Ave. Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-7990 |
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Nellie K. Parker School Maple Hill Drive Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-8020 |
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Fanny M. Hillers School
Michael Caez, Principal 56 Longview Avenue Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-7870 |
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Fairmont School Fairmount Avenue Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 646-7890 |
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Hackensack Town History
Situated on the Hackensack River and once a busy ocean port, Hackensack was first settled by Dutch traders in the 1640s. The seat of Bergen County, it was until 1921 officially known as New Barbadoes. During the Revolution, the Hackensack green was used as a camping ground for both Continental and British regiments. The courthouse complex includes buildings dating from 1910 to 1933. The courthouse is neoclassic, but the jail has medieval turreting. The Administrative Building dates from the 1930s.
Also on the green is the First Reformed Church, built in 1791 and altered in the mid-19th century. The congregation, organized in 1686, had its first building by 1696, and stones from this and the next church are worked into the present building. Many revolutionary soldiers are buried in the Graveyard, as is General Enoch Poor. George Washington and the marquis de Lafayette attended Poor's funeral. On the northwest corner of Church St. and Washington Pl. is the Bank House, built in the 1830s for the first bank in Bergen County. Traffic makes it hard to appreciate the green unless you leave your car. Farther west on Essex St. is the Hackensack Medical Center, founded in 1888 and in the mid-1990s the largest in the state.
A big treat in Hackensack is the New Jersey Naval Museum. There you can visit the USS Ling, a diesel-electric-powered World War II submarine commissioned in 1945. After one patrol run, the Ling was decommissioned, and from 1962 to 1971 it was used as a training vessel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Since 1973, the Ling has been berthed at the Hackensack River. Renovated, it is open for tours. Inside the museum are exhibits dealing with the history and science of submarines; models, including a working model of a German U-boat; and submarine-related memorabilia. Outside are missiles, a mine, and an experimental fiberglass sail.
Much of Hackensack's downtown has a 1920s or 1930s flavor. Note the stone Johnson Free Public Library, built in 1901 and enlarged in 1915 and 1967; the Oritani Field Club; and the group of 1930s Sears Roebuck stores, a prototype of post-World War II shopping centers.
The Hackensack River county park consists of 30 acres along the river behind the Riverside Square Mall. Trails go through a tidal marsh and forested wetlands, and there are overlooks, bird blinds, and interpretive signs.
At Bergen County Technical School is a steam engine museum, recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as a regional historical mechanical-engineering landmark. The collection includes operating stationary steam engines and steam powered equipment, and the museum is restoring two steam locomotives. At midnight on New Years Eve there is an annual whistle blast.
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