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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HACKENSACK , a See also:

town and the See also:county-seat of See also:Bergen county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hackensack See also:river, 13 M. N. of Jersey See also:City. Pop. (1890), 6004; (1900), 9443, of whom 2009 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 515 were negroes; (1905) 11,098;(1910) 14,050. It is served by the New See also:York, Susquehanna & Western, and the New Jersey & New York See also:railways, both being controlled by the See also:Erie See also:Company; and indirectly by the See also:West See also:Shore (at See also:Bogota, z m. S.E.). Electric lines connect Hackensack with See also:Newark, See also:Passaic and See also:Paterson, and with New York ferries. The town extends from the See also:low See also:bank of the river W. to the See also:top of a See also:ridge, about 40 ft. higher up, from which there are See also:good views to the S. and E. Hackensack is principally a residential town, though there are a number of manufacturing establishments in and near it. See also:Silk and silk goods and See also:wall-See also:paper are the See also:principal manufactures. In 1905 the value of the town's factory product was $1,488,358, an increase of 90•.3 % since 1900. There are an historic See also:mansion-See also:house and an interesting old Dutch See also:church, both erected during the 18th See also:century; and a See also:monument marks the See also:grave of See also:General See also:Enoch Poor (1736-1780), an officer in the See also:War of See also:Independence, who was born at See also:Andover, See also:Mass., entered the See also:Continental See also:Army from New See also:Hampshire, and took See also:part in the See also:campaign against See also:Burgoyne, in the See also:battle of See also:Monmouth and in General See also:Sullivan's expedition against the See also:Iroquois.

Hackensack was settled by the Dutch about 164o, and was named after the Hackensack See also:

Indians, a See also:division of the Unami Delawares, who lived in the valleys of the Hackensack and Passaic See also:rivers, and whose best-known See also:chief was Oritany, a friend of the whites. Hackensack is coextensive with the township of New Barbad6es, first incorporated with considerably larger territory in 1693.

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