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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
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, 18 miles (150 alt., 5,658 pop.), looks down
on the highway from the brow of the hill (R). The town was founded by
the Kip family in 1685, but the name was taken from another Dutch colonist. BENDIX AIRPORT is L., with flying field, aviation school, and hangars.
State 2 passes S. along the border of the vast area of the Hackensack
Meadows, one of the channels through which the Great Glacier discharged
its waters as it melted. Ahead (L) is a 10-mile view of tall grasses, yellow
marsh marigolds, and cattails. The swamp, 50 square miles, is a breeding
ground for marsh wrens, song sparrows, red-wings, bobolinks and a great
variety of other birds. The minnows in the pools and small streams and
the grasshoppers on the mud flats attract great flocks of shore birds during
the migrating seasons. The tract has been well ditched to control mosquitoes. There have been many proposals by engineers to utilize these low-lands, but thus far the area has been used mainly for railroad tracks and
smoking dump heaps.
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