Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough’s population was 14,336, an deposit of 2,823 (+24.5%) from the 2010 census add together of 11,513, which in slant reflected an accumulation of 3,836 (+50.0%) from the 7,677 counted in the 2000 Census

The borough’s records has featured the founding of the first colony in Bergen County, contribution to the Revolutionary War, a times as a “sleepy, pastoral Tiny town” with resort hotels in the 19th century, industrialization in the before 20th century, and a transition to a snappishly growing residential community in the late 20th century.

Edgewater was incorporated as a municipality upon December 7, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township as the Borough of Undercliff, based on the results of a referendum that passed two days earlier. The borough was formed during the “Boroughitis” phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough’s state was untouched to Edgewater on November 8, 1899. The borough was named for its location upon the Hudson River.

Native American people are known to have lived in the vicinity back the coming on of colonists in the 17th century. The Lenape were a local tribe of Native Americans allied with the adjoining borough of Fort Lee. David Pietersz Devries (also transliterated as David Pietersen de Vries), the first European settler, bought 500 acres (202 ha) of house from the Tappan tribe and normal the agreement of Vriessendael in what is now Edgewater. A historical plaque placed in Veteran’s Field by the Bergen County Historical Society names Vriessendael as the first known colony in Bergen County taking into consideration a founding date of 1640. Vriessendael was destroyed in 1643 in Kieft’s War by Indians reacting to foolish deeds by the Director General of the Dutch West India Company, who lived across the river in New Amsterdam, as Manhattan was subsequently known. In speculator days, River Road was known as the Hackensack Turnpike, and Ox [sic] Hill Road was an important route to the summit of the Palisades Cliff. While Oxen Hill Road still exists as a thoroughfare, another Colonial hallmark and major local industry has unaccompanied recently disappeared: shad fishing. The Undercliff section in the northern section of Edgewater was originally a colony of fishermen. In the 1980s there were nevertheless about 100 flyer fishermen in New Jersey harvesting shad from their annual spring run from the Atlantic Ocean going on the Hudson River to spawn. Now there are none.