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By the 1760’s there were a number of farms in this vicinity, and near the current monument,
the original Liberty Pole was erected to celebrate the repeal of the hated Stamp Act.
It is shown on a map drawn by Robert Erskine, Washington’s surveyor.
During the war, foraging parties
of both British and American forces in search of food raided farms. On November 20 th, 1776, part of
the American Army passed through here in their hasty evacuation of Fort Lee, fleeing the advance of about
5,000 British soldiers under Lord Cornwallis, and who had earlier climbed the Palisades in the Closter area.
Washington and the Continental Army camped in this vicinity in late August, 1780, as did also Generals Marquis
de Lafayette, Anthony Wayne, and Lt. Col. Alexander Hamilton.
Just west of th e present Monument is the site of the Liberty Pole Tavern, built in 1835 after th e previous one burned.
It was a gathering place for local residents and served as a stagecoach stop and Post Office. About the same time John
Van Brunt opened a store at the intersection of Grand and Forest Avenues.
Later he would become on of th e principal
organizers of the Northern Railroad that began operation in May 1859, connecting the end of the Erie Railroad at Piermont,
New York, with Jersey City. In August, 1859 J. Wyman Jones and others filed a map of a subdivision, called “Englewood”
in the County Clerks office in Hackensack. (From Website of Englewood Chamber of Commerce)
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