A history of Englewood,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Englewood from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Englewood Township, the city's predecessor, is believed to have been named in 1859 for the Engle family. The community had been called the "English Neighborhood", as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Netherland was annexed by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily forested areas of the community as the derivation of the name. Other sources indicate that the name is derived from "wood ingle", meaning "woody nook", or that the name was coined anew.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Englewood’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewEnglewood house, Englewood, New J…, 1880: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Englewood
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Englewood, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Englewood house, Englewood, New Jersey. H.M. Willis, proprietor - D.H. Gildersleeve & Co (1880) and it appears here side by side.
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National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.