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This site is available for adoption, if you are interested in being the coordinator, please contact the Acting State Coordinator: MaryAlice Schwanke Bergen County is in the northeast corner of New Jersey. Settled by the Dutch, Bergen was created in 1683 as one of the four original Counties in New Jersey. Its early borders included what are now Passaic and Hudson counties. In 1675 Bergen was included in a judicial district with Essex, Monmouth, and Middlesex counties. Later in 1683, Bergen was recognized as a county by the Provincial Assembly. In 1710, Hackensack became the county seat. Today, our 239-square-mile parcel of land in the northeast corner of the state has an estimated population of 825,380. Bergen had become a county of 70 municipalities, 56 boroughs, nine townships, three cities and two villages.  Washington Mansion House Tavern at Main Street and Washington Place, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey (from the Historic American Buildings Survey). R. Merritt Lacey, Photographer, April 23, 1936. Exterior - Southwest Elevation. From the Library of Congress, Memory Project CONFEENCE KEEPER  CALENDAR
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