Bergen County has either the state's richest history or just very active history buffs.

The National Register of Historic Places includes 273 Bergen County historic sites, 99 more than Essex County, which has the second-most, and 119 more than Morris County, which comes in third.

Bergen may not harbor Morris’ famed Revolutionary War encampment, Jockey Hollow, or the historic cathedrals of Essex, but it does have hundreds of old sandstone-and-clapboard farmhouses. Its list includes 18 houses identified by the surname-turned-town-name of Demarest and 18 more designated Ackerman houses.

In just two days in January 1983, Bergen County added 147 entries to the National Register of Historic Places — more than doubling its listings.

The flood of new entries, which included 13 homes in Wyckoff, was made possible by a countywide “stone house” survey in 1978 and a similar “historic sites” survey that county officials approved the following year. It was prompted by a 1982 federal law that allowed 25 percent investment tax credits on expenses incurred in rehabilitating certified historic homes.

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Further momentum for the county’s thematic "stone home" application came later in 1982, when the owners of Woodcliff Lake’s Tice Farms revealed plans to demolish a 188-year-old farmhouse to make room for 18 parking spaces outside a strip mall, reports in The Record show.

Owner Richard Tice had initially expressed regret about having to demolish the house, according to a Dec. 21, 1982, report in The Record. Still, Tice rejected pleas to preserve the wood-and-sandstone structure from county Planning Board members, who nonetheless filed for the house to be listed on the register, the report stated.

“If the county wants it, they can move it,” Tice said, referring to other homes saved by county freeholders and moved to New Bridge Landing in River Edge.

Despite its destruction by Tice in September 1983, the Jacob Wortendyke House remains on the register. Other non-existent structures still on the list include the Crim-Tice House in Woodcliff Lake, the White Tenant House in Waldwick and the Zabriskie Tenant House in Paramus.

Only one Bergen County site has been removed from the register — the Anderson Street Station — roughly two years after it burned down in January 2009.

Listed below are three historic sites that no longer exist but are still listed on the register of historic sites, and three locations that do exist but are obscure, and you may not have heard about them.

Lost to history

Here are three sites that no longer exist in Bergen County but remain on the register:

ALCOA EDGEWATER WORKS — Built in 1916 on the site of a former truck farm owned by the Vreeland family, the Alcoa Edgewater Works was the region’s only aluminum sheet mill for half a century. It made household foil, sheet metal for WWII aircraft and parts for Hoover vacuums.

At its height, in 1942, the plant had more than 3,500 employees working around the clock on 1.1 million square feet of floor space on a 26-acre campus. Federal records show the 10-story riverside plant was reported to have developed or pioneered several innovations, including 17S alloy, impact extrusion and the collapsible toothpaste tube.

A lack of growth potential led to a phase-out, and operations ceased in 1967. By 1971, part of the plant manufactured concrete flooring in one of many failed redevelopment attempts that would follow.

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The plant’s last wall stood until 2013, though much of the plant was torn down about 15 years earlier to make way for low-rise, wood-framed luxury apartments — Avalon at Edgewater — which burned down in 2015 and have since been rebuilt.

According to the site’s 1978 application to join the National Register, the Edgewater Works was a regional landmark with national importance because of its beamless flooring, flat-slab construction and mushroom columns made of reinforced concrete. It was also, the application notes, the largest plant of its kind during the aluminum industry’s formative years.

THOMAS W. DEMAREST HOUSE — Englewood’s Thomas W. Demarest House was one of nearly 200 stone homes included in the countywide thematic application to the National Register in 1982. A simple stone house with a south side veranda based on Dutch architectural themes, the structure housed one of many famous Demarests from Bergen.

Thomas W. Demarest was a descendant of David Desmarets, a director of the New Jersey Line Railroad, and the son of Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest, a well-known minister from the True Reformed Dutch Church. He was probably best remembered for helping establish the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, the county’s second railroad, with John Van Brunt in 1854.

Demarest was also a freeholder, state senator and Bergen County clerk, which may be why there is no local Van Brunt House on the register.

Demarest’s house appeared decidedly squat. Built sometime between 1803 and 1811, it was a 31-by-36-foot sandstone box with a pent roof. West wings were added in the 1840s. A gabled roof and a wrap-around veranda were later tacked on, making the home that was demolished in 1995 vastly different from the original.

CAPT. THOMAS BLANCH HOUSE — One of the many homes added in January 1983, the Norwood home of Capt. Thomas Blanch dated to about 1788. Blanch, a militia commander during the American Revolution, built the home shortly after the war for this son, Richard, and stayed there until his death in 1823, according to its application to the register.

Blanch, for whom the street adjacent to the home was named, commanded roughly 75 men from Bergen and Somerset from a Closter-based detachment. A staunch patriot in a hotly contested area ripe with loyalists, he was a large man who nonetheless likely spent his nights hiding from potential raiders in the woods, wrote Wintrop Gilman, a 19th-century historian.

After serving for another 100 years after Blanch's death as a private home, the house became an inn in 1924. Restored in 1967 by new owners Chris and Jeanne Stegemann, the property thrived as Stegemann’s Cock ‘n’ Bull restaurant. It later became the Brandywine Inn before burning down as Timothy’s Restaurant in June 1997.

Fitted with rough-hewn beams, the historic home was said to have briefly held the bones of British Army officer John André, who was hanged as a spy for allegedly assisting Benedict Arnold. Many historians, however, doubt that claim.

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These three historic entries are unusual and not known by many.

CIVIL WAR DRILL HALL AND ARMORY — Nondescript at first glance, the Civil War Drill Hall and Armory in Leonia is an exceptionally rare slice of history. The only known building of its kind in the country, the hall, built in 1859, was used to train soldiers for the Civil War and Spanish-American War.

The hall started as a single 60-by-30-foot room with wall-mounted racks to store .58-caliber rifles. It was the home of Company K of the 22nd New Jersey Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, the only regiment recruited entirely within the county to serve in the Civil War, federal records show.

The building was given a two-story addition with a lower-level wagon shed by 1862. The structure remained unaltered until the area’s Old English Neighborhood Society purchased it a century later. Its rehabilitation as a museum and meeting center was nearly complete until a fire swept through in 1976.

Scarred but salvageable, the building was bought by the borough and again restored in the 1990s by the Players Guild of Leonia. The performance group leased the hall from the town, enlisted volunteer help to restore it and has since used it as a theater. Original floorboards today greet theatergoers, who can view historical displays before the opening act.

FIRST REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH — The “Church on the Green” in Hackensack looks like a tall firehouse with tiny doors but is nonetheless the centerpiece of the county’s oldest congregation: the Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack.

Built in 1791, the church started as a roughly 54-by-69-foot hall topped with a standard and still-standing central spire. The walls and tower are built of a trademark red sandstone, except a brick rear wall. Some blocks, carved with the name of the congregation's founding members, were salvaged from the congregation's original church built on the Hackensack Green in 1696.

Combined with the Green, which church officials made a historic public square in the late 1600s, the church is part of a national historic district.

Its graveyard offers a view into North Jersey’s history for the past 300 years, with headstones ranging from opulent and towering to crude and craftsman. Surprisingly, among the latter lies the headstone of Revolutionary War Gen. Enoch Poor.

Involved in the Saratoga campaign in 1777, Battle of Monmouth in 1778 and Sullivan Expedition in 1779, Poor died in September 1780 at the age of 44. George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette attended his funeral.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON HOUSE — One of the first Bergen homes included on the National Register, the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Tenafly’s Highwood Park housed the famed suffragist from 1868 to 1887. Stanton built the home near the railroad station and financed its upkeep and taxes with lectures and writings, according to county records.

It was in the stately seven-bedroom home where Stanton wrote the first volumes of "History of Woman Suffrage" with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda J. Gage. It was from the home that Stanton and Anthony rode on Nov. 2, 1880, in a failed yet momentous attempt to vote at the nearby Valley Hotel.

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Built in 1868, two years after Stanton ran for Congress in a test of women’s rights, the white-painted, two-story home featured a slate roof and Victorian-Mansard styling atop a red sandstone foundation. The conspicuous Greek Revival portico, Colonial Revival features and square columns were added later.

Stanton sold the home after her husband’s death in 1887. Harboring more than 5,500 square feet of floor space, the home was last sold in 2015 for $3 million, county records show. A conservatory was added the next year to the continually evolving home.