Morsemere, New Jersey facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Morsemere, New Jersey
Unincorporated community
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Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Bergen
Borough	Palisades Park and Ridgefield
Elevation	33 ft (10 m)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	878502

Morsemere
Location	Ridgefield, New Jersey
Owned by	Northern Railroad of New Jersey (1859–1942) Erie Railroad (1942–1960) Erie Lackawanna Railway (1960–1976)
Line(s)	Erie Railroad Northern Branch
Construction
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	1913
History
Opened	1870s
Closed	September 30, 1966
Rebuilt	1872
Former services
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Palisades Park toward Nyack Northern Branch Ridgefield station (Erie Railroad) toward Jersey City

Morsemere is a neighborhood in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, largely in the northern part of Ridgefield and straddling the border of Palisades Park south of start of U.S. Route 46.

History

Morsemere is named for Samuel Morse, who had bought property with the intention of building a home there, but died before doing so. His estate was subdivided and laid out from 1899 to 1902. It underwent massive expansion around 1910.

The eponymous Morsemere Church was completed in 1928. The locally founded Morsemere Trust Company was eventually subsumed by MetroCorp Bancshares.

Until the 1950s when dial telephone service arrived, the local exchange was MOrsemere 6.

The Erie Railroad Northern Branch had a station in the neighborhood as well as at Ridgefield. The station house, built when the community was developed, burn down in 1928. It was also accessible by trolley form the 130th Ferry Terminal in Edgewater.