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WWI and a New Municipal Building
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Nov 17, 20194 min read
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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...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Nov 3, 20194 min read
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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...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Sep 29, 20194 min read
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From the Civil War to District School #44
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Apr 13, 20194 min read
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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...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Feb 28, 20192 min read
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Early Days and Save the Rock
For this year's Quasquicentennial Celebration, The Rock Recorder Blog will post a chronological (as much as possible) history of Glen...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Feb 17, 20194 min read
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society (GRHPS) Board Members Anne Ciliberti and Barbara Schineller recently did an analysis of the...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
May 15, 20184 min read
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1894. And All That.
How Glen Rock became Glen Rock
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Mar 16, 20185 min read
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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...
Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Feb 8, 20184 min read
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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...
Sue Tryforos
Nov 5, 20174 min read
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"AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY"
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,...
Sue Tryforos
Oct 7, 20172 min read
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WHAT? NO SAUERKRAUT??
It always amazes me how clear a vision Glen Rock's early leaders had for the development and modernization of the original farming...
Sue Tryforos
Jul 27, 20173 min read
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