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On Hillside Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Site of the Dutch Reformed Church of the English Neighborhood Built in 1768-9 and dedicated in 1770, with Dominie Garrett Lydecker its first minister.
Used as a guardhouse and hospital at various times during the Revolution. Torn . . . — — Map (db m7335) HM
On Grand Avenue at Lakeview Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Grand Avenue.
For 200 years this avenue was the English Neighborhood Road. In colonial days it was the main inland highway between Paulus Hook, Bergen and the English Neighborhood. — — Map (db m40770) HM
On Broad Avenue at Lakeview Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Broad Avenue.
In colonial times this was the site of a slave burial ground. In 1784 slaves comprised almost one forth of the population of the township. — — Map (db m7462) HM
On Grand Avenue at Lakeview Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Grand Avenue.
Approximately 100 yards to the west once stood Van Horne’s Grist Mill as located on Robert Erskine’s Map and mentioned in Thomas Paine’s “Crisis” paper. One detachment of the Patriot Garrison retreating from Fort Lee, left the main . . . — — Map (db m40769) HM
On Lakeview Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Located in old English Neighborhood on land purchased by Dirck Vreeland before the Revolution, the homestead stretched between the Hudson River and Overpeck Creek. The stone wing of this house was built about 1786 and later was remodeled. Son . . . — — Map (db m7131) HM
On Grand Avenue (County Route 93) at W Oakdene Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Grand Avenue.
Built in 1859 by “Jersey Blues Company” of the English Neighborhood. Troops that trained here became Company 1 of the 22nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Other troops trained here served during the Spanish-American . . . — — Map (db m54805) HM
On Fort Lee Road, on the right when traveling east.
Immediately south was located for a period in the early days of September 1780, the encampment of the left wing of the "light" troop of the Continental Army under Marquis de Lafayette. — — Map (db m7461) HM
On Fort Lee Road at Leonia Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Fort Lee Road.
On November 20th 1776, General George Washington and part of the Continental Army on their march from Fort Lee to Trenton passed this way. — — Map (db m93363) HM
On Grand Avenue (County Route 93) at W Oakdene Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Grand Avenue.
This section of Leonia was purchased from the Indians by Captain John Berry under a patent dated 1669. Capt. Berry was governor of Nova Caesarea (New Jersey) 1672-3. — — Map (db m54806) HM
On Broad Avenue at W Oakdene Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Broad Avenue.
This section of Leonia is part of a tract purchased in 1668 from the Hackensack Indians by Samuel Edsall and Nicholas Varlett who founded the English Neighborhood. — — Map (db m54847) HM
On Fort Lee Road, on the left when traveling east.
In the early morning of Nov. 20, 1776 after evacuating Fort Lee by order of Gen. Washington, the Continental troops under Gen. Greene came down this road on their march to Trenton. — — Map (db m7345) HM
