General Category > Online Auctions/Local Images (Moderated by BLeafe)

Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover

(1/2) > >>

BLeafe:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1883-207-Grocer-cc-Hackensack-NJ-Trenton-NJ-/400218947514?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d2ee87fba

Description:

Banta Bros. Fine Grocers cc advertising on June 8, 1883 cover franked with Scott #207 w/fancy geometric cancel from Hackensack, NJ to Trenton, NJ with New York Transit b/s. Cover has couple small tears in top margin from opening.

WarrenG:
So this is where the street name "Banta Place" (in front of Holy Trinity School) came from!

BLeafe:
Remember where the army recruitment place was - that one-block street that ran from State St to Main St right into the big Peoples Trust bank building?

That's Banta Place.

Holy Trinity School sits at the intersection of Maple Ave and Pangborn Place (5 Pangborn is where you used to ride the elevator after school at HTS).

I wouldn't think that streets would be named after grocers and there are a number of prominent Bantas in Hackensack's history, so let's ask someone who may know where Banta Place got its name from.

Mr. Editor?

Chief Oratam:
If you go to Maple Grove Cemetary on Hudson St. there are Very prominent Grave stones with the Banta name.... (Family Plot Style)..and alot more familiar names from around Hackensack... Alot of History in that olde cemetary....Alot....

Editor:
The Banta family tree is big in this these parts.  Check out Ancestry.com or www.bergencountyhistory.org/forums for Banta.  I'll try to find a condensed family history somewhere. Banta Place may be named for anyone of them. 

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page