Historic Bergen County sites, and cash to save them, disappear

The late-19th-century Darlington Schoolhouse — perched at Darlington Avenue and Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah — sat vacant for roughly two decades. Its chestnut banisters were battered, windows broken by vandals and walls sagged out under the weight of the 120-year-old roof. By the time it’s renovated and repurposed, the act of saving it will have spanned roughly a decade.