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Article: How did Bergen County get its name?

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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
11-13-2008

How did Bergen County get its name?
Date: 11-13-2008, Thursday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
Column: DID YOU KNOW?

The name Bergen was initially used in New Jersey to denote the peninsula between the Hudson and Hackensack rivers from Bayonne north to the northern part of present-day Bergen County.

Around the world, there is a Bergen-op-Zoom in Holland, a Bergen in Norway, and several towns in Germany with the word Bergen in their name. Historians are not sure exactly how the word came to first be used in the Garden State, but ...

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