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New Hackensack is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Wappinger in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2] New Hackensack is in western Dutchess County, in the northeastern section of Wappinger.
Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...
The Joseph Horton House is an historic structure located in New Hackensack, New York. Once part of a larger 250-acre (100 ha) farm, the farmhouse was built between 1725 and 1752. In 1840, the farm was divided, leaving the house on a 100-acre (40 ha) parcel, and it became known as "Old Hundred". Only a 2 acres (0.81 ha) lot remains intact.
The Hackensack has only been channelized to Milepoint 3.5 at the Riverbend in Hudson County. [10] [13] The accumulation of silt has diminished the depth, and thus navigability, of the Lower Hackensack. [14] which at one time was a major waterway for towboats and river barges in the Port of New York and New Jersey. [15]
The Saddle River flows south through much of Bergen County, New Jersey. The river runs through densely populated suburban areas for much of its course. The river takes its name from the river near Saddell in Argyll and Bute in Scotland. [1] The headwaters of the Saddle River are in the piedmont terrain of Rockland County, in southern New York state
On June 12, 2014, the PANYNJ acknowledged that the Securities and Exchange Commission, New York County District Attorney, and United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey were investigating its diversion of $1.8 billion to fund the Pulaski Skyway and other New Jersey roadway rehabilitation projects. These inquiries were related to how ...
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburban area outside New York City just west of the lower Hudson River , which it roughly parallels, separated from it ...
Newark Bay looking east to Jersey City and Bayonne The Hackensack in Secaucus. Hackensack River Greenway, once known as the Hackensack RiverWalk, [1] a is partially constructed greenway along the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.