Editing Cresskill, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Cresskill was incorporated as a borough by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on May 8, 1894, from portions of [[Palisades Township, New Jersey|Palisades Township]].<ref name=Story/> The borough was formed during the "[[Boroughitis]]" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone.<ref>Harvey, Cornelius Burnham. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EdoMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 ''Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey''], p. 11, New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900. Accessed September 1, 2013. "For a period of sixteen years following the passage of this act few boroughs were organized in the State, only three of them being in Bergen County.... As it was twenty-six boroughs were created in the county from January 23, 1894, to December 18, of the same year."</ref> A portion of the borough was annexed by [[Alpine, New Jersey|Alpine]] in 1904.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 80. Accessed October 25, 2012.</ref><ref>''History of Bergen County'', Vol. 1, p. 347.</ref>

Railroads provided access from Cresskill to customers in New York City, including a chicken hatchery that was the world's largest by 1897.<ref name=Thinking/> Railroad access established the former [[Camp Merritt, New Jersey|Camp Merritt]] as a major debarkation point for more than a million American troops being sent abroad to fight in World War I. To commemorate the fact, a large [[obelisk]] memorial (referred to by locals as "The Monument"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090823001541/http://www.cresskillboro.com/Cit-e-Access/webpage.cfm?TID=91&TPID=9131 The Monument in Cresskill], Borough of Cresskill, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of August 23, 2009. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>), or "The Circle Monument" was dedicated in 1924, set in the center of the [[Camp Merritt Memorial Circle]] at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Knickerbocker Road ([[County Route 505 (New Jersey)|CR 505]]).<ref>Rondinaro, Gene. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/realestate/start-up-buyer-oasis-in-affluent-bergen.html "Start-Up Buyer Oasis in Affluent Bergen"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 19, 1997. Accessed September 8, 2008. "Utilizing the newly built railroad connections to New York, more than one million American soldiers passed through the camp before it was disbanded in 1920. In 1924, the Camp Merritt Memorial Obelisk at the traffic circle connecting Knickerbocker Road and Madison Avenue -- better known to residents as the Monument -- was dedicated to those troops by Gen. [[John J. Pershing]]."</ref>

===Historic sites===
Sites in the borough listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] include:<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/Bergen.pdf New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County], [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] Historic Preservation Office, last updated August 17, 2017. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>
* [[Blackledge-Gair House]] (at 111 Madison Avenue; added January 9, 1983)<ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/83001469 Blackledge-Gair House], [[National Park Service]]. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>
* [[Demarest-Atwood House]] (at 84 Jefferson Avenue; added July 24, 1984)<ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/84002548 Demarest-Atwood House], [[National Park Service]]. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>
* [[Peter Huyler House]] (50 County Road; added January 9, 1983)<ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/83001528 Peter Huyler House], [[National Park Service]]. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>
* [[Benjamin P. Westervelt House]] (at 235 County Road; added January 9, 1983)<ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/83001583 Benjamin P. Westervelt House], [[National Park Service]]. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref>