Editing Fair Lawn, New Jersey (section)

==Historic sites==
The [[Passaic River]] Fishing Weir is a prominent archaeological feature just north of the Fair Lawn Avenue Bridge. It was constructed by [[Lenape]] tribe members and is the best-preserved of several such weirs on the [[Passaic River]].<ref>Coyne, Kevin. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/nyregion/new-jersey/05colnj.html "Pursuing a Secret of the Passaic"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 3, 2008. Accessed June 30, 2014.</ref>

Fair Lawn is home to the following locations on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]:<ref>[https://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, updated March 30, 2023. Accessed April 30, 2023.</ref>

* [[G. V. H. Berdan House]] – 1219 River Road (added 1983)
* [[Richard J. Berdan House]] – 24-07 Fair Lawn Avenue (added 1983): Purchased by Richard J. Berdan in 1808, the home was constructed for the Bogert family {{circa|1750}}.<ref>Winshell, Elaine B; and Diepeveen, Jane Lyle. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJ24MG9WfS8C&pg=PA11 ''Fair Lawn''], p. 11. [[Arcadia Publishing]], 2001. {{ISBN|9780738509297}}. Accessed November 2, 2014.</ref>
* [[Cadmus-Folly House]] – 19-21 Fair Lawn Avenue (added 1983)
* [[Peter Garretson House]] – 4-02 River Road (added 1974): With a homestead that dates back to 1719, the sandstone house is one of the oldest surviving structures in Bergen County. The Garretson Forge and Farm Restoration operates the site, owned by the county, as a farm museum.<ref>[http://garretsonfarm.org/homestead/ Homestead], Garretson Forge and Farm. Accessed September 16, 2017. "The Garretson homestead stands on a portion of land that was deeded to David Daniellse in 1708 by King George of Great Britain and the Lenni Lenape Chief, Spotted Tail. Peter Garretson purchased the property from Daniellse in 1719."</ref>
* [[Naugle House]] – 42-49 Dunkerhook Road (added 1983): Constructed in 1776, the home was visited by the [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]]. The site was purchased by the borough in 2010 for $1.7 million, and a plan has been formulated to repair the home and preserve the grounds as open space.<ref>Staff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823062413/http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/217874101_The_Record__Preserving_history.html "The Record: Preserving history"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', August 1, 2013, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of August 23, 2013. Accessed September 16, 2017. "Fair Lawn bought the 1776 Naugle House three years ago, snatching it from the jaws of a developer with plans to build town homes on the property. Not only was the house saved, but so were the grounds, keeping precious open space open."</ref><ref>Sudol, Karen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105191809/http://www.northjersey.com/fairlawn/217336321_Historic_homes__fate_clearer.html?page=all "Fate of Fair Lawn historic homes becomes clearer"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', July 29, 2013, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of November 5, 2013. Accessed September 16, 2017. "Fair Lawn bought the house in 2010 for $1.7 million using municipal and county open space funds. The cost to develop the restoration plan — not the actual work on the house — was $38,500, funded through a county grant matched by the borough.&nbsp;... The house, which dates to 1776 and is listed on the national and state historic place registers, is said to have been the home of a paymaster for the Continental Army and to have once hosted the Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman who fought with the Continental Army."</ref>
* [[Radburn, New Jersey|Radburn]] – Irregular pattern between Radburn Road and Erie RR. tracks (added 1975)<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/nj/Radburn.pdf Radburn - National Historic Landmark Nomination form], [[National Park Service]]. Accessed December 29, 2016.</ref>
* [[Radburn station]] – Pollitt Drive (added 1984)
* [[Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House]] – 41-25 Dunkerhook Road (added 1983): Constructed in Dutch stone by Jacob Vanderbeck in the 1750s, the house has had a number of prominent owners, including Fair Lawn mayor and Assemblyman Richard Vander Plaat. Owned by a developer who has sought to use the site to construct a large-scale assisted-living facility,<ref>Diduch, Mary. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160918230449/http://www.northjersey.com/news/fate-of-old-fair-lawn-house-rests-with-proposal-for-senior-complex-1.1023786 "Fate of old Fair Lawn house rests with proposal for senior complex"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', May 27, 2014, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of September 18, 2016. Accessed September 16, 2017. "The zoning board is poised Thursday to hear an application to build an assisted-living facility on a three-acre parcel where an 18th-century historic structure sits. The preservation of the Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. house on Dunkerhook Road has been an issue in the borough for years, and now the historic commission there is looking to negotiate with the developer to possibly have the home moved so it can be preserved."</ref> the house has been listed on Preservation New Jersey's 2013 list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey.<ref>[http://www.preservationnj.org/site/ExpEng/index.php?/ten_most_13/index_detail/Jacob_Vanderbeck_Jr._House 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey 2013: Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012045231/http://www.preservationnj.org/site/ExpEng/index.php?%2Ften_most_13%2Findex_detail%2FJacob_Vanderbeck_Jr._House |date=October 12, 2013 }}, Preservation New Jersey. Accessed October 11, 2013.</ref>

Fair Lawn also has a close association with two historic areas along the [[Saddle River (Passaic River)|Saddle River]] in [[Paramus, New Jersey|Paramus]]. One is the Easton Tower, a Bergen County historic site that consists of a stone tower and a small dam which mark the site of the colonial-era Jacob Zabriskie mill and the 19th–20th centuries-era Arcola community park. Another is the Dunkerhook community, focused around the New Jersey designated historic road, Dunkerhook Road. The western section of the community includes the Naugle House and the Jacob Vanderbeck Jr. House, and the eastern section included a slave and free-African American community that consisted of a school, a cemetery, a church, and houses including the now-demolished [[Zabriskie Tenant House]].