Editing Englewood, New Jersey (section)

===Pre-Colonial and Colonial eras===
Englewood, like the rest of New Jersey, was populated by [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] prior to European colonization. The Lenape who lived in the Englewood region were of the "turtle clan" which used a stylized [[turtle]] as its symbol. 2,000 Lenape originally lived in Englewood, but due to conflicts with the Europeans their population dwindled down to 50 by 1832.<ref name=History>[http://www.cityofenglewood.org/content/9262/11544/default.aspx Historic Englewood] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225145904/http://www.cityofenglewood.org/content/9262/11544/default.aspx |date=December 25, 2016 }}, City of Englewood. Accessed December 24, 2016.</ref>

When [[Henry Hudson]] sailed up what would become known as the [[Hudson River]] in 1607, he claimed the entirety of the [[Drainage basin|watershed]] of the river, including Englewood, for the [[Netherlands]], making the future region of Englewood a part of [[New Netherland]]. However, the region remained largely unsettled under Dutch rule as the Dutch did little to encourage settlement north of modern [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]], as the imposing [[New Jersey Palisades]] blocked expansion on the west bank of the Hudson.<ref name=History/>

[[File:GarretLydeckerHouse.jpg|thumb|The [[Garret Lydecker House]] was built in 1808.]]
In 1664, after the Dutch surrendered all of New Netherland to England, the rate of settlement picked up. The English were generous with land grants, and many families, not only English but also Dutch and [[Huguenot]], settled the area, which during the colonial era was known as the [[English Neighborhood]]. Street names in Englewood still recall the relative diversity of its earliest settlers; Brinckerhoff, Van Brunt, Lydecker, Van Nostrand and Durie (Duryea), all Dutch; Demarest (de Marais), DeMott and Lozier (Le Sueur), [[France|French]] Huguenot; and Moore, Lawrence, Cole and Day, English.