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Westwood (known as “The Hub of the Pascack Valley”) is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Westwood is part of the New York metropolitan area. Many of its residents regularly commute to New York City for doing and leisure, many using public transportation. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough’s population was 11,282, an lump of 374 (+3.4%) from the 2010 census total of 10,908, which in incline reflected a subside of 91 (−0.8%) from the 10,999 counted in the 2000 census.

Westwood was officially incorporated as a borough on May 8, 1894, from portions of Washington Township, early during the “Boroughitis” phenomenon next sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. Isaac D. Bogert served as the first mayor of the borough. In April 1909, Westwood was bigger through the annexation of the “Old Hook” section of the borough of Emerson, and on September 24, 1957, portions of the borough were exchanged as soon as Emerson.

The Lenni-Lenape Native Americans inhabited this allocation of the welcome and shared it once the transient hunters and trappers until the steadfast settlers began to enter in mid-18th century. In the in advance 19th century, the Place that would later become Westwood was within the larger political boundaries of Harrington Township, which had been received by royal charter in 1775. In 1840, the western half of Harrington Township became Washington Township, with the Hackensack River as the dividing line. Washington Township was an agrarian region with isolated farmsteads. Early families, including the Hoppers and Ackermans, are buried at the Old Hook Cemetery. An 18th-century mill was situated at the dammed stream near the intersection of today’s Mill Street and First Avenue. This mill was upon an important east west passageway and was the first upon Musquapsink Brook. The mill was largely destroyed after a flame set by an arsonist and was dismantled in 1910.