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Jersey City Free Books
NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series
Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Tour 3
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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, 9.1 miles (320 alt., 809 pop.), is a small residential community in heavy woodland, Its sole industrial plant manufactures envelopes for money gifts at Christmas. A TOURIST CAMP with
facilities for trailers is maintained by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission on Palisade Ave., one block east of US 9W. At the intersection is an
especially gaudy example of the roadside pottery stands found on many
New Jersey highways.
- Left from Englewood Cliffs on Palisade Ave. to the DYCKMAN STREET (New
York City) FERRY, 0.5 miles, and the junction with Henry Hudson Dr., an alternate
route N. to Alpine (see side tour above).
- Right from Englewood Cliffs on Palisade Ave., a brick-paved road, is ENGLEWOOD, 1.4 miles (30 alt., 17,800 pop.), a wealthy residential community on the
slope of the Hackensack Valley. The main street, Palisade Ave., is broad and treeless at the town's center, lined with one- and two-story stores. North of tile business
district, on shaded streets noted for autumn coloring, are costly homes on small
estates, all but hidden by trees and shrubbery. The DWIGHT MORROW HIGH SCHOOL,
in Dwight Morrow Park at Knickerbocker Rd. and Tryon Ave., is designed in the
Tudor style and dominated by a tall central tower of open tracery, crowned with
four finials. The ACTORS' FUND HOME, 155 Hudson Ave. (open 9-5 daily), is a
home for sick, disabled, and retired actors, founded by 248 prominent stage people,
of whom Daniel Frohman is the lone survivor (1939). The home was first on Staten
Island; it was moved to Englewood in 1928. Surmounting a.finely landscaped knoll
are the two white frame houses, each three stories high. The institution is supported by contributions and income from benefit performances arranged by Mr. Frohman. In its early years Englewood was known as "the English Neighborhood" because of English colonists in an area peopled mostly by Dutch and French Hugueots. Later the settlement became Liberty Pole, because of the pole that stood near
the former Liberty Pole Tavern on the Common, Palisade Ave. and Tenaflv Rd. A
tall flagstaff marks the SITE OF THE LIBERTY POLE. The WORLD WAR MONUMENT,
a soldier at ease before a granite shaft capped by a poised eagle, was done by Harry
Lewis Raul of Orange.
South of Englewood Cliffs the highway enters a scattered residential
section with remnants of woodland. Frequent openings frame vistas of
the shining gray towers and web of George Washington Bridge.
COYTESVILLE, 10.4 miles (330 alt.), is an undisturbed little village
that has been the home of many stars of screen and stage. Among them
is Marjorie Rambeau, whose father still runs a hotel here.
FORT LEE, 10.6 miles (280 alt., 8,759 pop.) (see Tour 1), is at the
junction with US 1 (see Tour 1).
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