A History of Oakland: The Story of Our Village (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596293342)

Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Bergen County, Oakland was for years a peacefully undiscovered outpost. Yet as Kevin Heffernan chronicles in A History of Oakland, the town's placid, easygoing character belies a fascinating and deeply engrossing history. From the interactions between the earliest Dutch settlers and the area's Lenape Indians, to the surprising pro-slavery attitudes of mid-nineteenth-century northern New Jersey, to the radical--and, to some, wrenching--changes wrought by late twentieth-century commercial development, Heffernan provides a definitive account of the life and times of this once-sleepy town.

Author: Kevin Heffernan
ISBN-10: 1596293349
ISBN-13: 9781596293342
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.74h x 6.80w x 0.33d