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ENGLEWOOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 455 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENGLEWOOD , a See also:

city of See also:Bergen See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., near the See also:Hudson See also:river, 14 M. N. by E. of Jersey City. Pop. (1900) 6253, of whom 1548 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 386 negroes; (1905) 7922; (1910) 9924. It is served by a See also:branch of the See also:Erie railway, and by an electric See also:line connecting with a See also:ferry (at Fort See also:Lee) to New See also:York. Englewood is primarily a residential suburb of New York. The site rises See also:terrace above terrace from the marshes in the valley of the See also:Hackensack to the See also:top of the palisades overlooking the Hudson, from which Englewood is separated by the See also:borough of Englewood Cliffs (pop. in 1905, 266). There are several See also:fine residences, a See also:hospital, a public library and the See also:Dwight school for girls (1859). The site of Englewood was for a See also:long See also:time a See also:part of " See also:English Neighbourhood," and was known as See also:Liberty See also:Pole; but until 1859, when the See also:place was laid out, there were only a few houses here, one of which was the " Liberty Pole See also:Tavern." In 1871 Englewood was set off from the township of Hackensack and was incorporated as a See also:separate township, and in 1896 it was chartered as a city; but the See also:act under which it was chartered was declared unconstitutional, and in 1899 Englewood was rechartered as a city by a See also:special act of the See also:state legislature.

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