Allendale CCTV & Security Cameras
The approximately three and five square miles that are known today as Allendale were part of a vast wilderness known only to the native American Indians until the early 1700's when a few adventurous settlers began to carve out farms and build homesteads in the vicinity. Allendale was then part of the Ramapo Tract, 42,500 acre parcel on land controlled by the East New Jersey Board of Proprietors. The Proprietors were largely old world real estate speculators and many of them never set foot on the American land they controlled afar.
Some of Allendale's earliest settlers included families names Lauback, Van Houten, Vanderbeek, Garrison, Storms, Winter, Wilson, Pulis, Smith, Van Blarcom, Crouter, Ackerman, Powell, Quackenbush, Zabriskie, Christopher, Van Horn and Mallinson.
The railroad came to Allendale in the 1840's with planning surveying and construction continuing from 1841 until October 1848 when the first train ran through town. Its route through this area was surveyed by Jospeh Warner Allen, an engineer from south Jersey. While working here, he stayed with the Ackerman family in the old Fell house in Franklin Turnpike and when a name was needed for the depot, his name was incorporated into "Allendale".
With the coming of the railroad, Allendale's first stores opened. Smith Roswell, who came to Allendale as the Erie's first station agent opened what was probably Allendale's first store about 1850. Later Charlie May and Morris S. Ackerman ran stores in the corner of the hotel.
J. Smith operated a saw mill near Crescent Avenue - Brookside Avenue intersection by 1861 and Henry Mallinson ran a blacksmith and wagon shop at the intersection of Allendale Avenue and Franklin Turnpike. Later John J. Van Horn ran a blacksmith shop and cider mill on Franklin Turnpike.
Peat was mined in 1866 and 1867 by John J. Zabriskie in the meadows of Allendale once known as Wolf Swamp (an Indian gathering place) later known as Appert's farm or the Celery Farm and today is a wildlife refuge. About 1880 Albert Lydecker erected a grist mill on the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook near West Crescent Avenue and Hopper Yeomans ran a traveling butcher shop, carrying meats and vegetables by wagon to customers on his route. R.V. Ackerman ran his general store on Park Avenue near the Erie Depot and Abraham Rowland opened another general store on Cottage Place. Still another grocery store opened near the center of what is today's business district and after a series of partnerships and name changes it became known as Winter Brothers' Store, later changing from groceries to strictly hardware.
With the coming of the railroad, Allendale's first stores opened. Smith Roswell, who came to Allendale as the Erie's first station agent opened what was probably Allendale's first store about 1850. Later Charlie May and Morris S. Ackerman ran stores in the corner of the hotel.
J. Smith operated a saw mill near Crescent Avenue - Brookside Avenue intersection by 1861 and Henry Mallinson ran a blacksmith and wagon shop at the intersection of Allendale Avenue and Franklin Turnpike. Later John J. Van Horn ran a blacksmith shop and cider mill on Franklin Turnpike.
Peat was mined in 1866 and 1867 by John J. Zabriskie in the meadows of Allendale once known as Wolf Swamp (an Indian gathering place) later known as Appert's farm or the Celery Farm and today is a wildlife refuge. About 1880 Albert Lydecker erected a grist mill on the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook near West Crescent Avenue and Hopper Yeomans ran a traveling butcher shop, carrying meats and vegetables by wagon to customers on his route. R.V. Ackerman ran his general store on Park Avenue near the Erie Depot and Abraham Rowland opened another general store on Cottage Place. Still another grocery store opened near the center of what is today's business district and after a series of partnerships and name changes it became known as Winter Brothers' Store, later changing from groceries to strictly hardware.
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