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Ho-Ho-Kus was incorporated as a borough on October 12, 1908, from what had originally been the borough of Orvil, which was in turn created on March 8, 1905, from portions of Orvil Township.

The meaning of the name Ho-Ho-Kus is in dispute. From the official history on the borough's website, the most likely origin is a contraction of the Delaware Indian term "Mah-Ho-Ho-Kus" (or "Mehokhokus"), meaning "the red cedar."

Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word "hohokes", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for "high acorns" or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for "high oaks", the Indian word hoccus meaning "fox", or woakus, "gray fox", or that the "Ho" part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from "hohokes," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

 

 

Government

Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus
333 Warren Avenue
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423
201-652-4400

Departments

Construction Official 201-652-4400 Ext. 227

Court Administator 201-652-4400 Ext. 240 or Ext. 253

Fire - 911
(Non-Emergency) 201-652-4400

First Aid - 911
(Non-Emergency)

Health Department 201-652-4400 Ext. 221

Library

Office of Emergency Management (OEM) 201-652-4400 Ext. 110

Police - 911
(Non-emergency) 201-652-1700

Public Works 201-445-8161

Recreation 201-934-3994

Senior Citizens

Tax Collector's Office 201-652-4400 Ext. 226

Tax Assessor 201-934-3967

Education

Board of Education

PTA

Ho-Ho-Kus Public School - Elementary Grades PreK - 8
70 Lloyd Rd
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423
201-652-4555

Northern Highlands Regional High School - Grades 9 - 12
298 Hillside Ave
Allendale, NJ 07401
201-327-8700

Private schools



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Historical Society

Hopper-Zabrisky Monument
75 1st Street
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423

The Hermitage
335 N Franklin Tpke
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423
201-445-8311

(Photo courtesy of The Hermitage Museum)

The Hermitage, a National Historic Landmark
and house museum, incorporates a
stone house that was visited during the
Revolutionary War by General George
Washington. It was also the site of the
marriage of Aaron Burr and Theodosia
Prevost. Its picturesque Gothic Revival
design dates to the 1847–48 renovation
by the architect William H. Ranlett.

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