Midland Park’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Midland Park. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMidland Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,014, a decrease of 114 (−1.6%) from the 2010 census count of 7,128, which in turn reflected an increase of 181 (+2.6%) from the 6,947 counted in the 2000 census. Midland Park was incorporated as a borough on September 6, 1894, at the height of the "Boroughitis" craze then sweeping through Bergen County that led to the creation of over two dozen new municipalities in the county in that one year alone. The new borough consisted of portions of both Franklin Township and Ridgewood Township. The borough expanded in April 1920 by adding another part of F…
Midland Park was established in 1894. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 7,128 people in 2010, 7,014 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1953.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Midland Park yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Midland Park’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Midland Park’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDavid Baldwin House, 60 Lake Aven…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Midland Park, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as David Baldwin House, 60 Lake Avenue and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (9) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.