Hamlet of West Bergen

Dublin Road & West Bergen Road

West Bergen is in the western part of the Town of Bergen, located around the four-corners of Dublin Road and West Bergen Road. The main line of the railroad crosses through the small hamlet.

Andrew Wright was the blacksmith in 1865 when the population was only 78. In 1869, Hubbard Beswick was a busy man, working as a wagon maker, blacksmith, and farmer; B.P. Carr grew peaches, raspberries, and other small fruit on his 97 acres; Amos Mann taught penmanship; Oliver Quackenbush was deputy postmaster and grocer. In 1882 the blacksmith was Loren Anger. Patrick Drury and Timothy Haley worked on the railroad, Pat as a flagman and Tim as a workman.

District No. 6 school was on the west side, south of the four-corners. Many of the early Irish settlers were buried in the Richmond family burial plot on the west side of the West Bergen Road at the top of the hill, south of Dublin Road.

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