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Tenafly stands on Lenape homeland. Its local
history reaches far beyond its borough charter.

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1677. Colonial land grants begin shaping the
future farming community.

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1859. The Northern Railroad arrives, opening a
new era of growth.

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1868. Women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady
Stanton makes Tenafly her home.

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1874. Daniel Topping Atwood's stone railroad
station is completed.

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1880. Stanton challenges exclusion at the polls.
Her vote is refused.

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1891. Residents organize Tenafly's volunteer
fire company.

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1894. Tenafly becomes an independent borough, on
January twenty-fourth.

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1917. Camp Merritt opens, linking this community
to America's World War One mobilization.

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1961. The Nature Center Association forms,
uniting education and conservation.

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1976. A major land purchase protects woodland
now called Lost Brook Preserve.

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From farmland to civic action, Tenafly's story
lives in the places it preserves.