The Borough Grows, 1910-1916
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
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Glen Rock, Bergen County, New Jersey
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Sep 29, 2019
- 4 min
Glen Rock Forms a Fire Department
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Feb 28, 2019
- 2 min
From Colonial Days to the War of 1812
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Jan 5, 2019
- 3 min
Happy Quasquicentennial, Glen Rock!
What's a "quasquicentennial", you might ask? It is a fancypants way to say "Happy 125th Birthday"! On September 14, 2019, Glen Rock...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Nov 10, 2018
- 3 min
WWI Veteran Frederick Freestone
As we stop this Veterans Day and remember the men and women who have served our country in peacetime and in war, my attention returns to...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Sep 21, 2018
- 3 min
Protect & Serve (part 2)
Continuing with our celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of the Glen Rock Police Department, this Blog post will...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- May 15, 2018
- 4 min
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society (GRHPS) Board Members Anne Ciliberti and Barbara Schineller recently did an analysis of the...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Mar 16, 2018
- 5 min
1894. And All That.
How Glen Rock became Glen Rock
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
- Feb 8, 2018
- 4 min
THOMAS L. HAWKINS: HERO FROM THE ROCK
Thomas Lawson Hawkins was born in 1923 in Springfield, Massachusetts and moved to Glen Rock with his parents, William and Rebecca, when...
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Sue Tryforos
- Nov 5, 2017
- 4 min
THE POWER OF ELEVEN
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when peace finally came to the Western Front following the four years of...
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Sue Tryforos
- Jul 7, 2017
- 7 min
THE SMITH-SINGER COMPANY
As the Borough Historian, I receive many questions from residents who want to know when their house was built or when their street was...
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Sue Tryforos
- Jun 27, 2017
- 5 min
JOHN A. HOPPER AND THE CIVIL WAR
This past Memorial Day, the Glen Rock VFW Post #850 and the Glen Rock American Legion Post #145 placed flags on a gravestone in the...
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