Hackensack, NJ
Stories
4 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Reverend Dirck Romeyn
The Divided Church: Faith and Fracture in Hackensack
The First Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack stood at the center of everything. It was where baptisms were recorded and marriages sanctified, where funerals brought the community together and sermons...
Neighbor Against Neighbor: The Civil War in Bergen County
The raid came at night, as raids in Bergen County usually did. A party of men — some in uniforms, others in ordinary farm clothes — crossed from the British-held zone into patriot territory, moving al...
The Day the Army Came Through: Washington's Retreat Through Hackensack
The morning of November 21, 1776, was cold and gray along the Hackensack River. The residents of Hackensack had been hearing rumors for days — Fort Lee had fallen, the British had crossed the Hudson, ...
Modern Voices