Historic New Bridge Landing, an 18-acre park at the narrows of the Hackensack River, preserves a fragment of the Jersey Dutch countryside. It has many associations with the Revolutionary War. General Washington and the American garrison of Fort Lee retreated across the bridge on November 20, 1776, and an American rear guard exchanged fire there the following day with pursuing British and Hessian forces. From the spring of 1779 through September of 1780, British, Loyalist, Hessian, Bergen Militia and Continental troops frequently attacked each other at the timber "new bridge," erected in 1745.

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