![]() In April 1885, this area was divided and part of it, including much of present day Allendale, was called Orvil Township. In 1849, a large section of Franklin Township, including part of Allendale, became Ho-Ho-Kus Township. Officially part of New Barbadoes Township since 1693, in 1767 Allendale (and a large surrounding territory) became Franklin Township. Some of Allendale’s earliest settlers included family’s names Lauback, Van Houten, Vanderbeek, Garrison, Storms, Winter, Wilson, Pulis, Smith, Van Blarcom, Crouter, Ackerman, Powell, Quackenbush, Zabriskie, Christopher, Van Horn Mallinson and Fell. The Proprietors were largely old-world real estate speculators and many of them never set foot on the American land they controlled. Allendale was then part of the Ramapo Tract, 42,500-acre parcel on land controlled by the East New Jersey Board of Proprietors. The approximately three square miles that are known today as Allendale were part of a vast wilderness known only to the native American Indians until the early 1700′s when a few adventurous settlers began to carve out farms and build homesteads in the vicinity.
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