Hackensack (formerly village in New Barbadoes)
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00283
- Place Type
- City, Town, or Village
- Alternate Name
- New Barbadoes
- Description
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Hackensack is the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, and is located on the western shore of the Hackensack River. Note that the present-day City of Hackensack did not exist as a separate municipality until 1921. However, the unincorporated village of Hackensack dates to the early colonial era, and it has been the county seat of Bergen since 1710 (except for a few years during the American Revolution when the county court had to move to several other locations temporarily). The historical Hackensack village was originally centered around the area of the Green (now a city park), and the first Bergen County Court House was built there in 1715. Archival documents that mention the court in Hackensack are referring to this location on the Green, where a courthouse and jail once stood.
The unincorporated village of Hackensack was officially located within the larger township of New Barbadoes. Established in the late 17th century, New Barbadoes was originally a huge township that spanned from the western shore of the Hackensack River all the way to the modern-day Sussex County border (most of present-day Passaic County was once part of New Barbadoes Township in Bergen County). Over the course of 200 years, New Barbadoes broke up into a multitude of different municipalities, until only a small portion of the original township was intact by the turn of the 20th century. In 1921, that small remaining portion of New Barbadoes was renamed Hackensack City, consistent with this small area's long history as Hackensack village.
The historical Hackensack village (and its successor Hackensack City) on the western side of the Hackensack River is not to be confused with a separate place called Hackensack Township, which was a large township on the east side of the same river. The historical Hackensack Township (which existed from 1693 to 1871) was much larger than Hackensack village, and these two places stood across the river from each other. - Locality
- Hackensack
- County (Modern)
- Bergen County
- State or Province
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States of America
- Related Place
- Hackensack Township
- Latitude
- 40.879320
- Longitude
- -74.044254
- References
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Bergen County Court House. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen%5fCounty%5fCourt%5fHouse.
Site of the Court-House & Jail. Historical Marker Database. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=6872.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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