Vriessendael was a plantation on the west bank of the Hudson River at what is now Edgewater, New Jersey, and was the first known European settlement in what would become contemporary Bergen County.
Vriessendael was a patroonship, or plantation, on the west bank of the Hudson Riverin the seventeenth century colony of New Netherland. It was located at what is now Edgewater, New Jersey, and was the first known European settlement in what would become contemporary Bergen County.