Edward Dey Page, 2nd Mayor of Oakland in 1906, and owner of The Vygeberg Farm, head-quartered at the Van Allen House and Stream House, is pictured here in front of his home, the Twilinge, which stood on Hiawatha Blvd in the early 1900's. This house was part of his 600+ acre estate where he ran a successful produce and dairy business that helped feed the expanding silk worker population in the Paterson textile district. He was a "Son of the American Revolution", coming from a family that had long supported American workers and their freedom to live full, productive lives. He had the Stream House built as a central office for his business, and a home for the office manager of the thriving dairy farm that his success in America's textile industry had allowed him to create. He employed many farmers as well as professional carpenters, stone masons and other craftsmen who helped create Oakland's first Fire House and many other public and private buildings in town.
Mr. Page employed many European immigrants from Italy and Holland along with local artisans and workers. His additions to the town helped create the great town we live in today. Besides a fire house, he got the public school system started by planning for the school that today is the Board of Education Building by Valley School
Plans are now being made for the Northwest Bergen History Coalition 2019 Fall Luncheon, Wednesday, November 13th . The theme is Prohibition as the 20th amendment was passed 100 years ago. We will be looking for stories about local reactions to prohibition. Henry Bishoff's History of Mahwah has many old news articles about local moonshine stills and what became of them.
E-mail Klaus or Jerri at ohs.inc1966@verizon.net or call us at 201-337-9652.
This year is the 100th Anniversary of America entering WWI and we are still commemorating this event. Learn about Harriot Stanton and the Suffragist movement which led the Women's Land Army to provide home-grown food for soldiers & families left home as the troops left from Cresskill, NJ to go overseas in 1917 & 1918
*See the photo below of "President Woodrow Wilson" with suffragist "Harriot Stanton Blatch" and a WWI Red Cross nurse from our 2017 History Day exhibit at the Hermitage in Ho-ho-kus.
Be sure to check out the Northwest Bergen History Coalition website for other local open-houses at http://www.nwbergenhistory.org/
Mr. Page employed many European immigrants from Italy and Holland along with local artisans and workers. His additions to the town helped create the great town we live in today. Besides a fire house, he got the public school system started by planning for the school that today is the Board of Education Building by Valley School
Plans are now being made for the Northwest Bergen History Coalition 2019 Fall Luncheon, Wednesday, November 13th . The theme is Prohibition as the 20th amendment was passed 100 years ago. We will be looking for stories about local reactions to prohibition. Henry Bishoff's History of Mahwah has many old news articles about local moonshine stills and what became of them.
E-mail Klaus or Jerri at ohs.inc1966@verizon.net or call us at 201-337-9652.
This year is the 100th Anniversary of America entering WWI and we are still commemorating this event. Learn about Harriot Stanton and the Suffragist movement which led the Women's Land Army to provide home-grown food for soldiers & families left home as the troops left from Cresskill, NJ to go overseas in 1917 & 1918
*See the photo below of "President Woodrow Wilson" with suffragist "Harriot Stanton Blatch" and a WWI Red Cross nurse from our 2017 History Day exhibit at the Hermitage in Ho-ho-kus.
Be sure to check out the Northwest Bergen History Coalition website for other local open-houses at http://www.nwbergenhistory.org/
History Day 2017
Members of the Oakland Historical Society got to meet with "President Woodrow Wilson" at the Hermitage May 20th 2017 at our History Day event. The re-enactor shared the president's support for the Red Cross aids during WWI, portrayed by Linda Arns, as well as for the suffragists as represented by "Harriot Stanton Blatch", daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, portrayed by Jerri Angermueller.
Harriot actually grew up in near-by Tenafly, New Jersey. She continued her mother's struggle for getting the women's vote in the USA, which became reality after WWI in 1920. Harriot learned about supporting the strong female labor force while she was living with her husband in England. She helped the women brewery workers improve their working conditions, then returned to America to help the silk
factory workers in New Jersey and New York become able to improve theirs. She was responsible for bringing female speakers from England over to the US to support the Women's Land Army. Women wanted to help feed the troops and found much resistance from the government in carrying out this much needed service during WWI. The advances made in Bergen County were presented at the event.
Harriot actually grew up in near-by Tenafly, New Jersey. She continued her mother's struggle for getting the women's vote in the USA, which became reality after WWI in 1920. Harriot learned about supporting the strong female labor force while she was living with her husband in England. She helped the women brewery workers improve their working conditions, then returned to America to help the silk
factory workers in New Jersey and New York become able to improve theirs. She was responsible for bringing female speakers from England over to the US to support the Women's Land Army. Women wanted to help feed the troops and found much resistance from the government in carrying out this much needed service during WWI. The advances made in Bergen County were presented at the event.