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Before Northvale was
named Northvale, before it was known as Carrieville, even before it
was called Neuvy, the land was part of a 1640 purchase from the
Tappan Tribe by a Dutch Captain to establish a trading post. Later
in the same century, the site was incorporated into a royal land
grant to the Haring family, who paid 16 bushels of wheat annually
for the privilege. This Tappan grant continued until 1775, when a
Colonial Commission ruling on state boundaries officially placed the
land in the Harrington Township of New Jersey.
General Washington
quartered his troops in this area at times, especially during the
famous 1780 trial and execution of Major John Andre. In 1800, all of
Northvale was part of a large plantation. Only with the 1859 advance
of the Northern Railroad did this part of the state grow in
population and industry. By 1866, Lucien Sanial filed a map of this
town, calling it Carrieville and showing streets named Paris,
Washington
and Franklin. In 1875, a railroad depot marked the town as Neuvy,
but by 1899, a map existed naming the town as Northvale. In 1916,
the town was officially incorporated as the Borough of Northvale.
As
of the census of 2000, there were 4,460 people, 1,575 households,
and 1,236 families residing in the borough. The population density
was 3,381.2 people per square mile (1,304.6/km˛). There were 1,596
housing units at an average density of 1,210.0/sq mi (466.8/km˛).
The racial makeup of the borough was 82.91% White, 0.76% African
American, 0.07% Native American, 14.06% Asian, 1.17% from other
races, and 1.03% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any
race were 4.73% of the population.
The
Northvale Public Schools serve students in grades K through 8.
Schools in the district are
Thomas
Jefferson
School
for grades K-4 and Nathan
Hale
School
for grades 5-8
Students
in public school for grades 9-12 attend
Northern
Valley
Regional
High School
at Old Tappan which serves students from Rockleigh,
Harrington
Park
, Northvale, Norwood
and Old Tappan. The high school is part of the
Northern
Valley
Regional
High
School District, which also serves students from Closter, Demarest, and Haworth at
Northern
Valley
Regional
High School
at Demarest.
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