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Carterette Road
(Piermont Road - North, Central Road)
1857

First named Carterette Road, this section from Rockleigh Road to the state line, was straightened and improved in 1859 as an extension of the road from Closter. For local farmers it was an easier wagon route to New York State and for carrying produce to the steamboat landings on the Hudson River. 

BCHS Marker

 Historic Site No. 31 
 Links 

Closter Publick Road (Piermont Road - south)

Snedens Landing Road (Rockleigh Road)

 

           On April 10, 1857, ten local land owners, led by Moses Taylor, Jr.,  applied to Bergen County for a re-alignment of a part of Closter Public Road. On June 2, 1857 the route was surveyed and the length of the improvement involved about one and one-half miles beginning near the present Norwood-Closter line. The artery ran northward past the John A. Haring House and ended close to the northeast corner of Moses Taylor's barn (Abraham A. Haring House) where Snedens Landing Road ran northeast.

          An extension Closter Publick Road was proposed to run northerly, past Snedens Landing Road towards Piermont.  

          From Moses Taylor's barn (Capt. Abraham A.A. Haring House), where Snedens Landing Road ran northeast to steeply climb the palisades,  a new road of 4163 feet was laid out by October 4, 1859 that extended to the north across farmlands to the New York border. Extending to Piermont, this road provided an easier wagon route to the Erie Railroad terminus and steamboat landing at Piermont. The new extension was first named Carterette Road, but was usually referred to as Central Road, later becoming Piermont road for obvious reasons.

Reginald McMahon: "Two Haring Houses at Rockleigh, NJ",  1973
(mms, Bergen County Historical Society, River Edge, NJ)
 
 Map References 
Hopkins-Corey (1861)  
Walker's Atlas (1876)  
Beers (1891) Central Road
Bromley (1912)  

 References 

Bergen County Historic Sites Survey, Borough of Rockleigh. 1981-1982.
Bergen County Office of Cultural and Historic Affairs, Hackensack, NJ
Road Return G-15, Hackensack, NJ
Reginald McMahon: "Two Haring Houses at Rockleigh, NJ", 1973
mms, Bergen County Historical Society, River Edge, NJ
Reginald McMahon: "A History of the Jacob Conklin House, Rockleigh, NJ", 1977.
mms, Bergen County Historical Society, River Edge, NJ

Compiled by E. W. April, 2002