For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen Rock, NJ. My main source for framing this series is an unpublished manuscript in the Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society's archive, which was written by George Hubschmitt. This is Part #15 of the series. On a personal note, let me say “Thank you” to all the readers of the Rock Recorder Blog. It has been very rewarding to me to “colla

100 years ago, on September 1st, 1918, the Glen Rock Police Department (GRPD) was officially organized. This is not to say that Glen Rock was a lawless place before that date, but the growth and needs of the new borough, incorporated in 1894, made it impossible for the part-time marshals to cover the entire area as before. Glen Rock's population had swelled from just 613 in 1900 to 1,790 in 1915; more people means more conflict plus when you add greater numbers of the newfa