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===Township formed=== [[File:William Weaver Bennett circa 1900 crop.jpg|left|thumb|[[William Weaver Bennett]], chairman of the committee which formed Teaneck, and its founding mayor]] The [[Township (New Jersey)|Township]] of Teaneck was established on February 19, 1895, and included portions of Englewood Township, Ridgefield Township and Bogota.<ref name=Story/> Teaneck's choice to incorporate as a township was unusual in an era of "[[Boroughitis]]", in which a flood of new municipalities were being formed using the decentralized and locally controlled [[Borough (New Jersey)|borough]] form of government.<ref name=BCHistory/> The other two municipalities formed in Bergen County in 1895 were both boroughs, in addition to the 26 boroughs that 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 15, 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> In a referendum held on January 14, 1895, 46 of 53 voters approved incorporation as a [[borough (New Jersey)|borough]]. Citizens of Englewood Township challenged the creation of a borough, but accepted the new municipality as a township, given its more rural character. A bill supporting the creation of the Township of Teaneck was put through the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] on February 18, 1895, and the [[New Jersey Senate]] on the next day. [[Governor of New Jersey|New Jersey Governor]] [[George Werts]] signed the bill into law, and Teaneck was an independent municipality.<ref name=BCHistory/> At its incorporation, Teaneck's population was 811. [[William Weaver Bennett|William W. Bennett]], overseer of the Phelps Estate, was selected as chairman of the first three-man Township Committee, which focused in its early years on "construction of streets and street lamps (originally gaslights), trolley lines (along DeGraw Avenue), telephones and speeding traffic."<ref>[http://www.teaneck.org/virtualvillage/history/history.html "A History of Teaneck β 1895 β 1995"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703201708/http://www.teaneck.org/virtualvillage/history/history.html |date=July 3, 2008 }}, copy of article from ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', October 20, 1995. Accessed May 15, 2008.</ref>
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