Ramsey History

A home sometimes referred to as the ‘American Versailles’, the Crocker-McMillin Mansion, completed in 1907, was actually modeled by architect James Brite after Bramshill House in England.

Finch Park didn’t exist back then of course, but the suggestion in the map below, is that Major General Benjamin Lincoln marched through Ramsey.

While it would be years before it became its own Borough on March 10, 1908, the Bergen County Atlas of 1876 does include an inset in its map of Hohokus Township entitled ‘Ramsey’s Station’, referring to the train station built on land acquired from Peter…

The view of Villani’s Restaurant in 1950 from Route 17, where patrons could enjoy “the finest food and and fountain service” either indoors or outdoors.

A blast from the not so distant past: wild turkeys on the train platform.

Ramsey, as the video begins, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens.

The Ramsey Field Club, circa their championship season of 1904.

This green trolley traveled between Suffern, NY and Ridgewood, NJ, crossing Main Street starting in 1908.

Since the last time we saw it, the entrance to the town at Main Street and Franklin Turnpike where St.

In a town that counts its violent crimes in the single digits per decade, any killing is going to cause a sensation and Ramsey’s had a few over its couple of hundred year history.