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Images of America Maywood the Borough the Railroad and the Station by E Kaminski
Images of America Maywood the Borough the Railroad and the Station by Edward S Kaminski Soft Cover 2010 128 pages
The borough of Maywood in Bergen County encompasses approximately 858 acres or 1.2 square miles. Today it is essentially a suburban bedroom community of 9,500 residents with a frequented business district comprised of merchants, eateries, specialty shops, and a national historic landmark railroad station and museum.
Dutch families from Long Island and New York City, beginning as early as 1600, originally settled the area. They built settlements resembling farming communities along the Hackensack River, gradually spreading out into what became known as Midland Township. Through the 1700s, most of what became Maywood remained undeveloped; however, in the early 1700s, Maywood did have at least two known residences, the Van Giesen-Lydecker house on what was 57 East Second Street (today's Howcroft Road), which dates to 1690, and the Brinkerhoff house located at 279 Maywood Lane (today's Maywood Avenue), which dates to 1700. Both homes exist today, albeit in slightly altered and expanded configurations.
The Revolutionary War period between 1776 and 1783 saw Continental army troop movements through the area and skirmishes with British troops in nearby Hackensack, New Bridge (Teaneck), and Paramus. The area bisecting Maywood in an east to west manner, which is largely today's Passaic Street, was used once as a retreat route for the Continental army.
Until about 1876, Maywood grew very little and was basically farmland. The Atlas of Bergen County, 1776-1876 shows that a total of only 13 houses were found within the limits of the present borough, which included about 90 inhabitants. All but three were located along Maywood Lane (present Maywood Avenue) between Passaic Street on the north and Essex Street on the south, with houses built of local red sandstone in the Dutch Colonial style.
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