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, 20183 min read
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
Jun 14, 20185 min read
Protect and Serve
100 years ago, on September 1st, 1918, the Glen Rock Police Department (GRPD) was officially organized. This is not to say that Glen...
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
May 15, 20184 min read
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, 20185 min read
1894. And All That.
How Glen Rock became Glen Rock
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Sue Tryforos, Borough Historian
Feb 8, 20184 min read
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
Dec 12, 20173 min read
THE DUDE ABIDES
For the past several years, the Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society has hosted our public school's 4th graders at the Museum at...
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Sue Tryforos
Nov 5, 20174 min read
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
Oct 7, 20172 min read
"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,...
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Sue Tryforos
Sep 3, 20173 min read
THE BELL IN THE PARK
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...
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Sue Tryforos
Jul 27, 20173 min read
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...
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Sue Tryforos
Jul 7, 20177 min read
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, 20175 min read
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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