Camp Merritt, New Jersey

08/02/2019

Knickerbocker looking north to Monument.

Walking past from Cresskill to Dumont.

07/20/2019

On this day, 125 years ago, residents of our town voted in a referendum to decide to leave Palisades Township and incorporate as the Borough of Schraalenburgh New Jersey. Out of approximately 400 eligible voters, 101 votes were cast and 65 voted in favor. The next day, Friday, July 20, 1894 the election results were sent to the court and the Borough of Schraalenburgh was incorporated. The name was changed in 1898 in honor of it’s first Mayor, Dumont Clarke.

Dumont is holding a short ceremony at Memorial Park tomorrow, Saturday July 20, at 9:00am to commemorate the 125th anniversary of our town. All are welcome to attend. More events will take place on Dumont Day in September and in the fall.

Photo of Map Borough of Schraalenburgh when incorporated, with areas later annexed to New Milford and Haworth, from Dumont Heritage, H J Altshuler

03/18/2019

Winter 2018/19

05/29/2018

Camp Merritt Monument

11/12/2017

Camp Merritt’s 100th Anniversary event.
October 23, 2017.

The camp, covering 770 acres on the border of Cresskill and Dumont, served as an embarkation point for U.S. soldiers heading to France.

10/12/2017

CAMP MERRITT was situated ten miles northwest of New York City, on a ridge midway between the towns of Cresskill and Dumont, Bergen County, New Jersey. It occupied an area of 770 acres, 580 acres of which were occupied by the camp proper. The remaining 190 acres were taken up by warehouses, railway areas, an athletic field, and a truck garden of some 60 acres which produced a large quantity of garden truck for the various messes. The camp was one mile long and three-quarters of a mile wide.

10/12/2017

As recruits for service in the Spanish-American War began assembling at Sea Girt in May 1898, the Federal Government began looking for a permanent campground for 50,000 mobilized troops, if necessary, with ample ground on the upper part of the Palisades in Bergen County for rifle ranges and maneuvers.

10/12/2017

On Thursday October 26, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Peggy Norris and Joe Suplicki, historians for the Village of Ridgewood will present this lecture. Part of the Mahwah Museum Lecture Series, the lecture will take place at the Ramapo Reformed Church, 100 Island Rd., Mahwah. Admission is $3, free for museum members. Contact [email protected] for reservations or call 201-512-0099. Refreshments will be served afterwards

Camp Merritt: Bergen County’s WWI Army Base On Thursday October 26, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. Peggy Norris and Joe Suplicki, historians for the Village of Ridgewood will present this lecture…

10/12/2017

HARRINGTON PARK - The Historical Society's annual History Day will recognize the 100th anniversary of the United States entering into World War I on April 6, 1917 and will focus on Camp Merritt, a local soldier training camp.

HARRINGTON PARK - The Historical Society's annual History Day, which has been going for about 13 years, will hone in on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the United States getting involved in World War I which took place on April 6, 1917, according to

10/10/2017

Camp Merritt Memorial Monument marks the center of an important World War I embarkation camp, where more than one million U.S. soldiers passed through on their way to and from the battlefields of Europe.

Camp Merritt Memorial Monument