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Goffle Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Passaic County and Bergen County in New Jersey and drains the eastern side of the First Watchung Mountain. Heading up the brook from the confluence with the Passaic River, one encounters the borough of Hawthorne, the village of Ridgewood, the borough of Midland Park, and the township of Wyckoff. ==History== Goffle Brook has seen human occupation for hundreds of years, as evidenced by abundant Lenape camp sites along its banks. Two such camps are known to have existed near the brook’s mouth, while another two existed about one and a half miles upstream on the east bank. A fifth camp, still locally remembered, sat at the confluence of Deep Voll Brook and Goffle Brook.〔Henry B. Kummel. ''Geological Survey of New Jersey – Bulletin 6: Annual Administrative Report of the State Geologist for the year 1911''. MacCrellish and Quigley, Printers, Trenton, NJ, 1912. See Page 77, Archaeological Survey, Sites in Northern New Jersey. (Available via Google Books )〕 During the American Revolutionary War, General Lafayette stationed his men along the banks of the brook. In 1780, Major Lee’s Virginia light horse troop occupied the east bank of the brook, while Lafayette’s light infantry corps occupied the flanks of First Watchung Mountain to the west. Lafayette’s headquarters sat on the western bank of the brook in what is now Goffle Brook Park south of Diamond Bridge Ave in Hawthorne.〔John Austin Stevens, et al. ''The Magazine of American history with Notes and Queries''. A. S. Barnes., 1879. See Page 490. (Available via Google Books )〕〔François Jean Chastellux & Howard C Rice. ''Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782''. (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va.) University of North Carolina Press, 1963.〕 Prior to the twentieth century, the brook’s gradation supported saw, grain, and grist mills. It was probably instrumental in initial settlement and farming of the northern Passaic River valley.〔Norman F. Brydon. ''The Passaic River: past, present, future''. Rutgers University Press, 1974.〕 In addition to it uses as a drinking water supply and an energy source for mills, the brook has served as a focus for human creativity. Perhaps most notably, New Jersey native William Carlos Williams immortalized the brook in his 1949 poem ''Spring is Here Again, Sir''. The poem opens with the line, ''Goffle brook of a May day blossoms in the manner of antiquity''.〔William Carlos Williams, edited by Christopher John MacGowan. ''The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962''. New Directions Publishing, 1988. ISBN 0-8112-1063-4, ISBN 978-0-8112-1063-8 See Page 190. (Available via Google Books )〕 Today, Goffle Brook serves as the centerpiece of Goffle Brook Park and Kings Pond Park, providing fishing and ice skating opportunities to local residents.〔(Passaic County – Goffle Brook Park )〕〔(The Village of Ridgewood Division of Parks, Shade Tree, and School Grounds - Village Parklands )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goffle Brook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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