As of May 2010, the township had a total of 43.48 miles (69.97 km) of roadways, of which 34.76 miles (55.94 km) were maintained by the municipality, 6.90 miles (11.10 km) by Bergen County and 1.82 miles (2.93 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
Updated March 05, 2017. Composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695)'s first opera and one of the earliest English operas, Dido and Aeneas was written around 1688 and premiered shortly after at the Josias Priest Girls School in London. The opera is based on the story of Dido and Aeneas from Book IV of Virgil's Latin Epic Poem,
The Aeneid is an epic poem in twelve books or chapters, written by the Roman poet, Virgil (70-19 B.C.), between 30 B.C. and 19 B.C. It tells the story of the Trojan warrior, Aeneas, in the aftermath of the Trojan War. During the sack of Troy, Aeneas fled the city with his father, Anchises, and his son, Ascanius. Led by the prophecies that promised him a future kingdom, he and his followers finally settled in Latium, a region of central Italy. From his descendants were said to come the Roman people.