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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
CARLSTADT, 19.4 miles (120 alt., 5,425 pop.), is a small hit of "Das
Vaterland" planted in an American town on the rocky ridge between the
Hackensack and Passaic valleys. Some of the streets are terraced, and steps
lead from one level to another. The land was bought co-operatively from
the original American owners by a group of German exiles, liberals and
freethinkers who were seeking political liberty. The town, first called
Tailor Town because many of the inhabitants worked for New York tailors, was later renamed Carlstadt (Carl's town) for Dr. Carl Klein, leader
of the German group. On warm nights old folk songs, rhythmically punctuated by the tapping of beer steins, ring out from the popular Sommer
Garten. New Yorkers come to the little town with its squat, dusky frame
buildings, to participate in sports contests of the Turn Verein, or to take
part in dramatic activities. The children study German in the public schools
and even hear sermons in German at the German Evangelical Church.
On the Hackensack Meadows (L) the 430-foot transmitting tower of
radio station WNEW dwarfs the distant towers of WINS and WFAB.
South of Carlstadt State 2 crosses a crooked section of the old Paterson
Plank Rd., still bearing a name outmoded when the decayed planks were
replaced by stone 50 years ago.
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