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On Palisades Interstate Parkway, on the right when traveling north.
At Lower Closter Dock – on the riverfront just south of here – a British invasion force of 5,000 troops commanded by Lord Cornwallis landed before dawn on November 20, 1776. Guided by three Bergen County residents, they climbed the . . . — — Map (db m144530) HM
The background photograph shows Alpine Landing – here – known earlier as Closter Landing or the Closter Dock – around 1897. From before the Revolutionary War, a steep road through a break in the cliffs of the Palisades allowed . . . — — Map (db m47509) HM
On Old Dock Road at Old Dock Road on Old Dock Road.
Made of local blue stone, dedicated on August 17, 1871. Resting at the summit of the Palisades on the historic Closter Dock Road and Old Dock Road. Designed by renowned Architect J. Cleveland Cady.
Fisherman, quarrymen, laborers and local . . . — — Map (db m207905) HM
On Closter Dock Road (County Route 502) at Old Dock Road, on the right when traveling west on Closter Dock Road.
Laid out in 1761 by New York over an earlier route when that province claimed jurisdiction over this area. Used by troops during the Revolutionary War, the road led from Closter to Closter Dock on the Hudson where farm produce was shipped to New . . . — — Map (db m7208) HM
Near Alpine Approach Road, on the left when traveling north.
Cornwallis Headquarters Nov. 18th 1776 Restored with the assistance of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission • 1933 • — — Map (db m116946) HM
Near Henry Hudson Drive, on the left when traveling south.
Lower Closter or New DockHere a British invasion force of 5,000 troops commanded by Lord Cornwallis landed before dawn on November 20, 1776. Guided by three Bergen County residents, Joseph Hawkins, Isaac Perkins, and John Aldington, they climbed . . . — — Map (db m142465) HM
On 20 November 1776 British general Charles Cornwallis led 5,000 men across the Hudson and up a primitive farm road in the Palisades to begin the march south to capture the American fortifications at Fort Lee (A on the map, lower right). Word . . . — — Map (db m47508) HM
