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Morsemere is a neighborhood in
Bergen County Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Jersey, United States, 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 MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc. (MetroCorp, Nasdaq: MCBI) was an American banking corporation headquartered in Chinatown and in Greater Sharpstown in Houston, Texas.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.


See also

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Grantwood, New Jersey Grantwood is an unincorporated community straddling the boroughs of Cliffside Park and Ridgefield, just south of Fort Lee, in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Toponymy Grantwood Heights Land Company was incorporated on Febru ...


References

Palisades Park, New Jersey Ridgefield, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in Bergen County, New Jersey Unincorporated communities in New Jersey {{BergenCountyNJ-geo-stub