FEDERAL SQUARE

William C. W. Durand, a leading citizen of Pompton Lakes, called Federal Square historic ground. This ground, at the intersection of Wanaque Avenue and Hamburg Turnpike, was the site of the Yellow Cottage, later known as the Yellow Tavern, where George Washington stayed when the Third Maryland Regiment was camped with its Officers quartered in the Tavern.

At the unveiling of the Maine Monument on Labor Day 1914, William Durand said, "In this moment and on this site there are linked together a memorial of three great epochs in American History. For here stood George Washington and directed a part of the operations which made our forefathers free, that cannon saw service in the war between the States, and that ventilation cowl was bruised and battered by the shot that in 1898 truly rang around the world, and so we can commemorate the American Revolution, the Civil War and the War with Spain".

The Liberty Bell was placed at the site by the Elks in 1953 in memory of World War II and the Korean War dead.