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Bergen County Historical Society : Historic New Bridge Landing Bake-Oven Bread

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River Edge NJ, Friday’s Fare from Historic New Bridge Landing Bake-Oven Bread Referred to as A Simple Bread in our recipe collection, this is Andrea’s go-to bread recipe that never fails and has satisfied many a reenactor. For years it’s been baked using a Dutch oven, but with the addition of the Bake Oven at HNBL, and has become our “control” for working this oven. What is most liked about it is that it’s nothing fancy, just honest and great eaten as a hunk pulled from the loaf. Slathered with butter or dunked in a stew, it makes a meal.

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Site Tour of Historic New Bridge Landing by BCHS Past president & Museum Collection Chair Deborah Powell

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New Bridge landing NJ, a Pop up Walking Tour of Historic New Bridge Landing – this Sunday, March 21, 2021, 1:30- 2:45 pm.

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Walking Tour of Historic New Bridge Landing

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New Bridge Landing NJ, Tour begin in The Meadow. Find out about Bergen County’s premier historic site. Tour is weather permitting, 45 degrees or warmer. Tour by Deborah Powell.

Historic New Bridge Landing has a compelling and complex story, from the Native American to colonial to a strategic crossing throughout the American Revolutionary War located in the heart of Bergen County. Tour given by Deborah Powell, BCHS past president and Museum Collection Chair.

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Bergen’s Fort: The Post at Paulus Hook, 1776-1783

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New Bridge Landing NJ, Paulus Hook, continuously occupied by troops for the bulk of the American Revolution. Lecture by Todd Braisted.
Sunday, February 21, 2021, 2 pm.

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Bergen County Historical Society : Joyce Kilmer, “Trees”

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New bridge Landing  NJ, The poet #JoyceKilmer, who lived in #Mahwah, wrote the following poem “Trees” ,

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Bergen County Historical Society : the Stamp Act in Pictures with Writer Marta Black

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New bridge landing  NJ,  the Stamp Act in Pictures: Writer Marta Black will use cartoons and drawings from the 1700s to discuss the Stamp Act and the causes of the American Revolution. January 10, 2021, 2 pm.
BCHS Zoom Lecture – Free, no charge, option to make a donation.

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1780 was the 5th year of the Revolution and four years after the Declaration was signed, yet fighting still raged

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New Bridge landing NJ, As 2020 comes to a close, Northjersey.com recently posted an article about what some historians thought were the worst years. We’d like to throw 1780’s hat into the ring. To see the article, please see the previous post and now…1780 and the challenges that the region faced 240 years ago.

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Bergen County Historical Society : Ackerman-Zabriskie Tide Mill site

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New Bridge Landing, Good afternoon Bergen County! We hope you are well as the snow storm exits and the sun peaks out. The Bergen County Historical Society was established in 1902, charged with preserving and promoting the County’s rich history as a whole. We are a 501c3 and not a government agency. Over the years, the Society has amassed a collection of over 4,000 unique items that tell the story of Bergen’s first peoples to the present day. 2020 has been a year like no other with historic sites and museums across the country feeling the challenges of Covid 19. Yet the Bergen County Historical Society has been resilient during these times and has continued to march forward as we continue with our mission.

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Bergen County Historical Society 2020 Year End Fundraising Appeal

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New Bridge landing , The Bergen County Historical Society was established in 1902, charged with preserving and promoting the County’s rich history as a whole. Over the years, the Society has amassed a collection of over 4,000 unique items that tell the story of Bergen’s first peoples to the present day. 2020 has been a year like no other with historic sites and museums across the country feeling the challenges of Covid 19. Yet the Bergen County Historical Society has been resilient during these times, launching a new website with updated resources, participating in a nationwide historic site tour, supporting an Eagle Scout project bake oven on site, ZOOM lecture series and monthly in person tours following all state guidelines.
We are also excited to announce that we have purchased the former PSE&G substation property, which is the last undeveloped property in the historic core of Historic New Bridge Landing. Renamed the Ackerman-Zabriskie Tide Mill site, the past support of our members, allowed for this important piece of history to be preserved as planning gets underway for its future use.

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Bergen County Historical Society Presents 244th Anniversary of the British Invasion & American Retreat

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New bridge Landing NJ, join the Bergen County Historical Society for Retreat to Victory: Learn about events of Nov 20-21, 1776 in Bergen County. Reenactors from 4 groups to demonstrate. Exhibit of Antique Political Cartoons of American Rev War. Out kitchen Cooking, Barn & Blacksmith.

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Bergen County Historical Society : Local Taverns often Served as Polling Places

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New Bridge Landing NJ, according to the Bergen County Historical Society , in New Jersey in the early 1800s, local taverns often served as polling places. Women and people of color joined other legal voters to cast their ballots in taverns marked by signs like the one pictured here, featured in our new exhibit When Women Lost the Vote.

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Bergen County Historical Society : Baseball is Back !

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New Bridge Crossing NJ,  We hope you and your families are doing well. Baseball is back. It’s hard to imagine that so late in July. Each July past, we have hosted a Vintage base ball game in the meadow that has always been well attended by cranks who enjoy both baseball and history. While the game was cancelled this year, in honor of baseball starting up again, we wanted to share the history of the game right in our own backyard, New Bridge. Enjoy the history of the game on a local level, photos are from past events.

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Bergen County Historical Society : “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America”

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“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” An extract from a letter written by John Adams to his wife Abigail. July 3rd, 1776.

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Removing Mascots is an Insult to Native American People and Disrespectful of History

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Montvale NJ,nothing like not knowing anything about your local history , the Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education meeting on June 22, the Board voted to remove the “Cowboy” and “Indian” as the Pascack Hills and Pascack Valley High Schools’ respective mascots.

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Bergen County Historical Society : Restaurants and Breweries are Part of the History of Bergen County

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New Bridge Landing NJ, With restaurants and breweries opening back up in River Edge, I mused about our local 18th century tavern that stood only a mile away as the crow flies but was moved in 1977 to Historic New Bridge Landing, River Edge, NJ.

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