This Day in History: 1952-04-15

Stephen Birch Jr. offered a plot of about 20 acres free to the Mahwah School District as the site of a new school. In a letter to the Board, he outlined a plot on the west side of Ridge Road, running north of Jackson Road. He proposed the gift to be in the name of his father, the late Stephen Birch Sr. on the condition that the proposition be placed before the public as a separate ballot item and that the property be used exclusively as a school site. (Bristow)