History of Hudson County and the Old Village of Bergen

In 1921, the Trust Company of New Jersey opened a new office tower near the original Dutch village boundaries of Bergen Square. This booklet traces the history separating that farming community with the industrial center that Jersey City had become. Includes section on the founding of the Trust Company that begins with the role of wampum in the Dutch colonial economy. ; The Old Village of Bergen; The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Trust Company of New Jersey; The New Building of the Trust Company of New Jersey