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Saddle Brook is one of the oldest townships in Bergen County. The area was first settled by the Dutch as part of New Amsterdam. After the English takeover in the early 1700's, it became part of New Barbadoes. Barbadoes is an island in the British West Indies, and New Barbadoes was the name chosen by the English settlers in that area.) New Barbadoes had as its boundaries the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers to the east and west, and Sussex County and Newark Bay to the north and south. Most of the history of the township is, of course, the history of Saddle River Township, which is one of the oldest townships in Bergen County. Historians do not always agree on the dates in our local history, but quite a few of them write that the township was created in March of 1716. In 1724, the township seceded from New Barbadoes. As time passed, other towns were carved from Saddle River Township until it became the 2.7 square miles it is today...

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