Morsemere is a neighborhood in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, largely in the northern part of Ridgefield and straddling the border of Palisades Park south of start of U.S. Route 46.
History Morsemere is named for Samuel Morse, who had bought property with the intention of building a home there, but died before doing so. His estate was subdivided and laid out from 1899 to 1902. It underwent massive expansion around 1910.
The eponymous Morsemere Church was completed in 1928. The locally founded Morsemere Trust Company was eventually subsumed by MetroCorp Bancshares.
Until the 1950s when dial telephone service arrived, the local exchange was MOrsemere 6.
The Erie Railroad Northern Branch had a station in the neighborhood as well as at Ridgefield. The station house, built when the community was developed, burn down in 1928. It was also accessible by trolley form the 130th Ferry Terminal in Edgewater."Homes on the Palisades", The New York Times, September 4, 1910. Accessed August 22, 2023. "The section of the Palisades immediately at the other side of the 130th Street ferry is really the gateway of a vast area which in a very short time is bound to develop into a sort of metropolitan annex. with Edgewater at the foot of the cliffs, Grantwood at the summit, and Morsemere on the western slope."
See also Grantwood, New Jersey
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