Lusitania Savings Bank, FSB - Banks - Harrison Township, NJ

Lusitania Savings Bank, FSB
302 Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard
Harrison, NJ 07029
Phone: (973) 268-7801
Fax: (973) 268-7802

Business Hours
Regular Banking Hours
Mon. 9:00am-6:00pm
Tue. 9:00am-5:00pm
Wed. 9:00am-5:00pm
Thu. 9:00am-5:00pm
Fri. 9:00am-7:00pm
Sat. 9:00am-2:00pm

Do you know the foundation for our name?

IS IT THE
LUSITANIA, The Ship?

Lusitania was an Ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Lines that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915, in an incident that played a role in the United State's entry into World War I. The liner under British registration, sunk off the Irish coast by a German submarine. In the sinking, 1,198 persons lost their lives, 128 were US citizens. The vessel was unarmed, though the Germans made a point of the fact that it carried munitions for the Allies. The existent sympathy for Germany to a large extent disappeared after the disaster, and there were demands from many for a declaration of war. Germany finally conceded its liability for the sinking of the Lusitania passenger ship. The incident, however, contributed to the rise of America sentiment for the entry of the United States into World War I, with recruitment posters two years later urging potential enlistees to "Remember the Lusitania!".

OR IS IT
LUSITANIA, The Roman Province?

Lusitania was a Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula. Constituted by Augustus it included all of modern central Portugal as well as much West Spain. The province took its name from the Lusitani, a group of warlike tribe who, despite defeats, resisted Roman domination until their great leader, Viriatus, was killed by treachery. In the 1st Century BC they jointed in supporting Sertorius, who set up an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula. The old identification of Portugal with Lusitania and of the ancestors of the Portuguese with the Lusitanians, the reason why Camoes great epic was entitled Os Lusiadas, is largely lost from memory, but the creation of Lusitania may have had a faint echoing effect in the setting up of the great kingdom of Portugal centuries later.