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Coytesville, New Jersey | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Bergen |
| Borough | Fort Lee |
| Elevation | 351 ft (107 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 875684[1] |
Coytesville is an unincorporated community and neighborhood located largely within Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.[2][3]
Geography[edit]
Coytesville lies atop the Hudson Palisades north of GWB Plaza in Fort Lee, with a small portion straddling the southern border of Englewood Cliffs.[4] It is loosely defined as being west Palisades Interstate Parkway and north of its connector road, New Jersey Route 67. It is east of the Linwood section of Fort Lee and New Jersey Route 4 near the municipilty of Englewood.[5]
History[edit]
Founding[edit]
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Joseph Coyte who emigrated here from Devonshire, England in the mid 1840s and acquired the land in the area between the Hudson and Hackensack River, settling at what would become Coytesville. He started early speculative subdivision of lots laid out by Coyte in 1851.[6] A general store was established, and included a post that remained in the building until 1938.[7][8] At the time the area was part of Hackensack Township.[a][b]
Woodland Cemetery[edit]
Woodland Cemetery, also known as the Coytesville Cemetery, is found on land originally donated by Coyte. It is where he after his death in 1887, some family members, and many other early homeowners are buried. Several Civil War soldiers are interred there.[11] as is the first Mayor of Fort Lee, John C. Abbott.
Television[edit]
In 1926, the radio station WRNY relocated its transmitter from the Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan) to Coytesville [12] In 1928, it made one of the earliest television broadcasts.[13]
Champion Studios[edit]
Fort Lee is home to America's first motion picture industry.[14][15][16] A large number of early films, many silent, were shot at studios and on location in and around the town. With the first constructed in 1909, there were 11 major studios in Fort Lee by 1918.[17][18] [19][20][21][22][23][24]
Transportation[edit]
U.S. Route 9W as Sylvan Avenue and County Route 505 as Hudson Terrace run through the neighborhood Palisades Interstate Parkway and its connector road, [[in part designated New Jersey Route 67), define its eastern and southern borders, while New Jersey Route 4 lies to the west. GWB Plaza, and the George Washington Bridge are south of Coytesville.[25] It is loosely defined as being west.
Notable residents[edit]
- Maurice Barrymore, actor, lived in the Coytesville from ~1890 until his death in 1905.[26][27][28]
- Pop Hart (1868–1933), an early 20th century American painter and watercolorist.
- George Price, cartoonist (190 – 1995)[29]
- James Van Fleet (1892 – 1992) was a United States Army General was born in Coytesville.
Notes[edit]
- ^ On March 22, 1871, Hackensack Township was subdivided into three new townships, each stretching from the Hudson River on the east to the Hackensack River in the west. The northern portion became Palisades Township, the center strip became Englewood Township, and the southern portion became Ridgefield Township. With the creation of these three new townships, Hackensack Township was dissolved that same day, March 22, 1871.
- ^ Fort Lee was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904, from the remaining portions of Ridgefield Township.[9][10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Coytesville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "History of a Fort Lee Neighborhood: Coytesville". Fort Lee, NJ Patch. August 15, 2012.
- ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed March 7, 2015.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/08/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-fort-lee.html
- ^ "The History of Englewood Cliffs - Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey". www.englewoodcliffsnj.org.
- ^ "State by State Highway Com'r v. Cooper, s. A--91". vLex.
- ^ https://books.google.nl/books?id=KqD6vyYj8KAC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=raised+in+coytesville&source=bl&ots=jSd1f0RgA1&sig=ACfU3U2ECqwlV-uG77R8cSjGX9mo_y2PXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio-f7isuGAAxXJ_rsIHVTxA5sQ6AF6BAgkEAM#v=onepage&q=raised%20in%20coytesville&f=false
- ^ "From the Archives: The Coytesville General Store – Shades of Hooterville". Fort Lee, NJ Patch. September 6, 2013.
- ^ Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 78. Accessed February 14, 2012.
- ^ "History of Bergen County", Vol. 1, pp. 361–364 shows a creation date of April 18, 1904, for Fort Lee.
- ^ "WOODLAND AKA COYTESVILLE (ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS Cemetery - Bergen County, New Jersey | Burial & Family History Records". newjerseycivilwargravestones.org.
- ^ "WRNY Changes Transmitter Location", Science and Invention, December 1926, page 717.
- ^ "Barrymore Film Center". Barrymore Film Center.
- ^ Spehr, Paul C. (1977), The Movies Begin: Making Movies in New Jersey, 1887-1920, The Newark Museum, ISBN 9780871001214
- ^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, John Libbey Publishing, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
- ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9780738545011
- ^ "11 Number of the Day: Major film studios operating in Fort Lee by 1918". New Jersey Spotlight. January 4, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
- ^ "A summary of the studios and films that were produced in Fort Lee, NJ". Barrymore Film Center.
- ^ "Champion Studio office building". wikimapia.org.
- ^ "The Champion review: hooray for Fort Lee". September 20, 2017.
- ^ "From the Archives: Remember the Champion Studio!". Fort Lee Patch. December 21, 2013.
- ^ "Fort Lee filmmakers have a shot at the NYC Emmys". North Jersey Media Group.
- ^ "Champion: A Story of America's First Film Town". Milestone Films.
- ^ "Before Hollywood, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey". HuffPost. September 22, 2017.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/08/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-fort-lee.html
- ^ "A Barrymore In the House". The New York Times. March 18, 2001. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
- ^ "The Barrymores of Fort Lee: How an acting dynasty took root in the early history of film". North Jersey Media Group. March 6, 2019.
- ^ McBride, Murdoch (March 1, 2001). "Fate of Barrymore Family Home Rests with Fort Lee Film Commission". Playbill.
- ^ Collins, Glenn. "George Price, 93, Cartoonist of Oddities, Dies", The New York Times, January 14, 1995. Accessed December 6, 2013 "Mr. Price was born on June 9, 1901, in Coytesville, N.J., in the borough of Fort Lee."
External links[edit]
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