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workmen were excavating at Sip and Bergen Avenues for the foundation of the new eleven-story building of the Trust Company of New Jersey, they unearthed an ancient well. It was 45 feet deep, reaching down to a subterranean stream. The hollow logs that formed it fell apart as soon as they were handled. At such wells the early Van Vorsts, Van Homes, Van Winkles and others drew the water for the houses within the old palisades; and it was such a well, with troughs for cattle around it, that was dug in the center of Bergen Square Old Dutch Well