Continuing with our celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of the Glen Rock Police Department, this Blog post will...

100 years ago, on September 1st, 1918, the Glen Rock Police Department (GRPD) was officially organized. This is not to say that Glen...

Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society (GRHPS) Board Members Anne Ciliberti and Barbara Schineller recently did an analysis of the...

How Glen Rock became Glen Rock

Thomas Lawson Hawkins was born in 1923 in Springfield, Massachusetts and moved to Glen Rock with his parents, William and Rebecca, when...

For the past several years, the Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society has hosted our public school's 4th graders at the Museum at...

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when peace finally came to the Western Front following the four years of...

It is easy to look at Bergen County today and see a thoroughly modern, bustling area but it wasn't too long ago, historically speaking,...

It is easy to overlook this modest memorial: a ship’s bell, on a granite boulder, in Veterans Park along Main Street. One’s eyes are...

It always amazes me how clear a vision Glen Rock's early leaders had for the development and modernization of the original farming...

As the Borough Historian, I receive many questions from residents who want to know when their house was built or when their street was...

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...