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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DMW_solax-studios_Fort-Lee-NJ.html
? ? ? ? ? The Solax Studio was built in 1912 by Alice Guy Blach?, who had begun directing films for the Gaumont Company in Paris in 1896. In 1907, Leon Gaumont sent Alice and her new husband, Herbert Blach?, to take charge of Gaumont's operations…
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The Continental Army's retreat route ran from the bluffs of Fort Lee's Palisades, site of the American fortifications and nearby encampment, west on Fort Lee Road (present day Main Street) and continued west through the current towns of Leonia, En…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C26_liberty-tree-memorial_Fort-Lee-NJ.html
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two effigies suspended from an elm tree in protest of the hated Stamp…
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British Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis and five thousand of his troops crossed the Hudson River and made their way to Fort Lee from Huyler's Landing Road on November 20th, 1776. General Nathanael Greene, warned of the invasion by a vig…
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This retreat route on Main Street in Fort Lee, N.J. enabled General George Washington's army to escape capture from the British and prevent the end of the War for Independence. Patriot and soldier Thomas Paine wrote about his experience in Fort Le…
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New Jersey is known as the Crossroads of the American Revolution and this Fort Lee crossroad on Main Street represents one of the most important sites in the United States. Here, on present day Main Street, Major General Nathanael Greene led the g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16QF_christopher-columbus-memorial-plaza_Fort-Lee-NJ.html
Christopher ColumbusMemorial Plaza Dedicated Oct. 11, 1971Leonardo da Vinci SocietyBergen CountyNew Jersey ( Lower Plaques : )Granite Monumentdonated byAnthony K. Macagna Bronze sculpturedonated byAdeline Braccoin memory of her sisterIone…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115I_veterans-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge_Fort-Lee-NJ.html
Dedicatedto the men and womenof the United States Armywho participated inthe Battle of the Bulgeduring World War IIin Belgium and Luxembourgthe greatest land battlefought by the United States Armyunder extreme winter conditionssuffering the larges…
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Killed in the Line of Duty at theEvans Film Fire - February 7th, 1925Linwood Ave. & Main St. · Fort Lee, N.J. ? ? ? ? ? On Saturday, February 7, 1925 the department responded to a fire at the National Evans Film Laboratory located at the co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM115E_world-peerless-metropolitan-studios_Fort-Lee-NJ.html
? ? ? ? ? Jules Brulatour, who had earned a fortune as the agent for George Eastman's motion picture film, built the Peerless studio on Lewis Street in 1914. It was the original home of the World Film Corporation, which Brulatour formed with Will…
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