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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
RIVERDALE, 0.9 miles. (200 alt., 1,052 pop.), is a trim little village
built on a left bend in a hill-rimmed cup of flat land. The New Jersey
Historical Commmission has allotted to it a share in the State's Revolutionary history, and placed in a vacant lot (L) a marker asserting that "Washington quartered at the Schuyler House July 12, 1777, and visited Colonel
Van Cortlandt here March 28, 1782." But Riverdale's citizens claim nothing that is not their sure historical due. Miss Mary E. Mandeville, whose
grandfather was a Schuyler, knows of no Schuyler House in Riverdale. A
possible VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE (private) at which Washington may
have stayed is the two-and-a-half-story white frame dwelling with a first-story body of gray fieldstone standing across the road from the marker.
Charles F. Mickens, who moved into it with his wife in 1886, thinks it
may be the place; Mr. Mickens built the frame second-story addition, putting plaster over the old beams-a renovation he has regretted, he says, for
50 years. The RIVERDALE WAR MEMORIAL (L) is a life-size statue of a
doughboy in a resolute stance, bayonet ready, fist clenched, his helmet
tossed beside him on the pedestal; the whole is neatly gilded.
The route turns R. at Riverdale.
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