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Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...
Hackensack University Medical Center ( HUMC) is a 950-bed non-profit, research and teaching hospital providing tertiary and healthcare needs located seven miles (11 km) west of New York City, in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of 2019, it ranks as the second-largest hospital in New Jersey and No. 59 in the US. [ 2]
Hackensack people. Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers.
South Hackensack is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the township's population was 2,701, [ 9 ] an increase of 323 (+13.6%) from the 2010 census count of 2,378, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] which in turn reflected an increase of 129 (+5.7%) from the 2,249 counted in the 2000 census .
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban area outside New York City just west of the lower Hudson River, which it roughly parallels, separated from it ...
Hackensack High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Hackensack, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Hackensack Public Schools. Hackensack High School serves students from the Bergen County, New Jersey , communities of Hackensack, South Hackensack (80 students in 2011–12), Rochelle Park (120 ...
These stones bear the monogram of several of the founding families. The congregation was founded by Dutch settlers in 1686. For the first ten years the congregation worshipped in various locations, and in 1696 the first building was built on the current site. In 1780 Colonial General Enoch Poor was buried in the Cemetery.
New Jersey Naval Museum. / 40.880127; -74.039934. The New Jersey Naval Museum ( NJNM) was a museum located along the Hackensack River in Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Its mission was dedicated to the state's naval heritage and naval history in general. The prominent element in the collection was the ex- United States ...