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7 unusual facts about Hackensack


Andy Sipowicz

Andy Jr., who was about to start work as a policeman in Hackensack, New Jersey, was shot and killed while trying to stop a robbery.

Enoch Poor

Some sources say Poor was shot in a duel near Hackensack, New Jersey, on September 6, 1780, and died two days later from the wound, although the Army surgeon reported that Poor died from typhus.

History of Rutgers University

In May 1771, the Board of Trustees voted 10 to 7 to establish the college at New Brunswick, selecting it over Hackensack, New Jersey.

James Riely Gordon

Bergen County: Another surviving work from Gordon's New York period is the Bergen County Court House at 10 Main St, Hackensack, N.J. Its cornerstone was laid July 6, 1910 and the building completed in 1912.

Jigsaw Jones Mysteries

Mom, came from Hackensack, New Jersey, is very strict about the words "hate" and "dumb".

Nellie Morrow Parker

She became the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey in 1922 when she was hired to teach the fifth and sixth grades in the Hackensack, New Jersey public school system.

Psilocybe graveolens

Psilocybe graveolens is an extremely rare psilocybin mushroom in the section Zapotacorum, which has psilocybin and psilocin as main active compounds, discovered in the salt marshes or "meadows" of Hackensack, New Jersey.


Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson

These events were depicted in a non-fiction crime book by journalist Doug Most, who covered the case for The Bergen Record of Hackensack, New Jersey for more than two years.

Charles N. DeGlopper

In the late evening of June 6, 1944, the 82nd Airborne’s glider troops began to arrive in France staged from Aldermaston airfield, each involving hundreds of CG-4 Waco and Airspeed Horsa gliders and managed in code-named phases denoted: Mission Keokuk, Mission Elmira, and the final two glider landings were scheduled for June 7, 1944 during the morning hours in Missions Galveston and Hackensack which brought in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment (325th GIR).

Dwaar Kill

Dwars Kill, a tributary of the Hackensack River (Oradell Reservoir)

Gene Monahan

After retiring from the Yankees, Monahan moved from his home in Hackensack, New Jersey to Mooresville, North Carolina, where he now works as a consultant for Hendrick Motorsports.

John J. Eagan

In 1894, he founded and was president of the Eagan Schools of Business in Hoboken, New Jersey, Union Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, and Hackensack, New Jersey and Brooklyn.

Mark Ingram, Jr.

Ingram was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the son of former NFL wide receiver Mark Ingram, Sr. He attended Grand Blanc Community High School in Grand Blanc, Michigan during his freshman, sophomore and junior years, and then Flint Southwestern Academy in Flint, Michigan for his senior year.

New Jersey Route 5

Pre-1927 Route 10 was legislated in 1916 to run from Paterson east by way of Hackensack and Ridgefield to the Public Service Railway's Fort Lee Ferry at Edgewater.

Overpeck

Overpeck Creek, tributary of the Hackensack River in Bergen County in northeastern New Jersey in the United States

P. graveolens

Psilocybe graveolens, a mushroom species discovered in the salt marshes of Hackensack, New Jersey

Skyworks

Skyworks Interactive, video game developer based in Hackensack, New Jersey

Valerie Huttle

On October 5, after an extended legal battle related to inclusion of five disputed ballots, Weinberg was ultimately victorious over Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa in her bid to replace Baer, both on an interim basis and on the November General Election ballot.

William Alexander Linn

He is a member of the National Geographic Society, the New Jersey Historical Society, Bergen County Historical Society, and trustee of the Johnson Public Library of Hackensack.


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