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Title: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: BLeafe on May 29, 2011, 12:34:15 AM

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.

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: WarrenG on May 29, 2011, 06:16:15 PM

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

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: BLeafe on May 29, 2011, 10:09:42 PM

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?

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: Chief Oratam on May 30, 2011, 08:18:28 PM

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....

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: Editor on May 30, 2011, 10:47:28 PM

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. 

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: Bbicher1 on July 02, 2023, 09:17:17 PM

I have this picture taken on main st. Pretty cool.

Title: Re: Banta Bros. - grocers w/2 Hackensack locations - 1883 cover
Post by: Editor on July 02, 2023, 10:21:05 PM

I reversed the image.

Great picture. Thanks for posting!