BACK IN TIME: Northern Valley was scandalized by a woman wearing pants
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Northern Valley, New Jersey — In 1939, a woman named Ellen Tilton Holmsen was kicked out of Harrington Park for the offense of […]
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Northern Valley, New Jersey — In 1939, a woman named Ellen Tilton Holmsen was kicked out of Harrington Park for the offense of […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Tenafly, New Jersey — Tenafly multi-millionaire John S. Lyle had been known to make news headlines during his life. One of […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] Washington Oak Park still exists in Emerson, but the one-time focal point of this land, a centuries-old oak tree, has been gone for decades. In 1959, the Daughters […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS It might look like a scene from the Wild West, but this is how downtown Tenafly looked about 110 years ago. […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF PASCACK PRESS Powhatan Park was the name of a bungalow colony of summer homes developed in Montvale in the 1910s. Today, its grounds would […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Shown here is a circa 1890 snapshot of the Englewood Cliffs Rod and Gun Club. Notice anyone who looks familiar? That’s […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS The first light industry in Closter was located at the corner of Homans Avenue and Ruckman Road—the Closter Shading Co., a […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’899′] By KRISTEN BEUSCHER OF PASCACK PRESS RIVER VALE, NEW JERSY —— Not long after our Jan. 22 Back in Time feature on the River Vale Lodge hit driveways, […]
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHER OF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS CLOSTER, N.J. ——Seventy-five years ago America was embroiled in World War II, and Closter High School’s newspaper of December of 1942 reflects the […]
ALPINE, N.J. —— Alpine gained some prominence in the late 19th century after a visit from the famous cartoonist Thomas Nast (pictured below). [slideshow_deploy id=’899′] Nast, widely known for his […]
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