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Hardcover. Condition: Vg. First Edition. 475 pages. Blue binding with gold lettering on spine. A few B/W illustrations scattered through the book. Maps of Glen Rock on endpapers. Spine cocked a little. Previous owner's gift inscription on second free endpaper. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Robert David Kline/Moment in Time photographic stu (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvi, 475, [1] pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Index. No dust jacket present. This is the first comprehensive history of the Borough of Glen Rock. The colors, blue and gold, of the cover were chosen to match the colors of the flag of Glen Rock as adopted officially by the Borough Council on May 27, 1948. The centennial history is organized into the following chapters: General History; Municipal Departments; Development; Parks; Utilities; Transportation; Schools; Religious Community; Industry and Commerce; Organizations, Events, Mayors, Biographies--Predecessors; Biographies--Contemporaries, and Nostalgia. Glen Rock is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Glen Rock was formed on September 14, 1894, from portions of Ridgewood Township and Saddle River Township during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The main impetus for the break from Ridgewood Township was the decision to have Glen Rock students attend a new school closer to the center of Ridgewood instead of their one-room schoolhouse located at the intersection of Ackerman Avenue and Rock Road. Originally, the borough was to be named "South Ridgewood", but in order to prevent confusion with the neighboring Ridgewood Village, resident Monsieur Viel suggested the alternative name of Glen Rock. The borough was settled around the Glen Rock, a large boulder in a small valley (glen), from which the borough gets its name. The rock, a glacial erratic weighing in at 570 short tons and located where Doremus Avenue meets Rock Road, is believed to have been carried to the site by a glacier that picked up the rock 15,000 years ago near Peekskill, New York, and carried it for 20 miles to its present location. The Lenape Native Americans called the boulder "Pamachapuka" (meaning "stone from heaven" or "stone from the sky") and used it for signal fires and as a trail marker. The borough was the site of one of Bergen County's most serious public transportation accidents. In 1911, a trolley operator for the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company, one day away from retirement, died in a crash with an opposing trolley around the intersection of Prospect and Grove Streets that was caused by signal problems. In addition to the death of the opposing trolley operator, 12 people were injured. This crash in part hastened the demise of this transportation mode which ran from Elmwood Park, New Jersey, to Suffern, New York, and competed with the Erie Railroad. The right of way for this trolley line was purchased by the Public Service Enterprise Group and is still visible today. In October 2005, many scenes of prominent locations in town were shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Oliver Stone, with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September 11 attacks.