Hackensack Plank Road
Hackensack Plank Road | |
|---|---|
| Route information | |
| Existed | 1802–present |
| Component highways |   Fairview to Hackensack |
| Major junctions | |
| South end | Hoboken, NJ |
| North end | Hackensack, NJ |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| Highway system | |
| Plank roads | |
The Hackensack Plank Road, also known as Bergen Turnpike, was a major artery which connected the cities of
Hoboken and North Hudson
Today there is little or nothing to be seen of the plank road in Hoboken, the urban grid of the city having expanded westward across landfilled marshes; the alignment used to stretch from what is now the intersection of Washington and Eighth, to Park Avenue between 13th and 14th streets, to old 17th street between Grand and Adams streets. In
In 1854, Nicholas Goelz and Peter Melcher changed the starting point of their stage coaches from West Hoboken, to the new settlement of Union Hill, north of West Hoboken, in order to meet the demand created by that new settlement, and used the Hackensack Plank Road as the route to the Hoboken ferry.[7]
Fairview and The Ridgefields
Crossing the Bergen line at the Fairview Cemetery, the road becomes County Route S124 and is named Broad Avenue. In Ridgefield the route travels west on Hendricks Causeway, which was built in the 1930s, and runs parallel to Edgewater Avenue, the original Bergen Turnpike. A short stretch, Motel Avenue, connects it to Bergen Turnpike which crosses Overpeck Creek into Ridgefield Park, where it ends at the river at the site of ferry landing and bridge, neither of which any longer exists.[8]
Little Ferry and Hackensack
See also
U.S. Roads portal
New Jersey portal
- Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road
- List of turnpikes in New Jersey
- New Jersey Route 18N
- Fairview Quarry
References
- ^ Unofficial New Jersey Route Log
- ^ Laws of the State of New Jersey, 1811, pp. 337-340
- ^ "Hudson County 691 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
- ISBN 0-88097-763-9.
- ^ North Hudson 1884 map
- ^ Shippen Street
- ^ Twentieth Anniversary 1919 - 1939 West Hoboken Post No. 14 Union City, New Jersey; The American Legion; Department of New Jersey; Page 31
- ^ a b "Bergen County Route 124". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
- ^ "The little ferry". The Bergen Evening Record. September 20, 1944.
- ^ "Bergen County 124 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved 2009-08-23.[dead link]