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The Historical Society of Rockland County (HSRC) is the principal repository for original artifacts and documents relating to Rockland County and the Lower Hudson Valley...
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Historians
Rockland County Municipal Historians Municipality Name Other Affiliations Contact Rockland County Craig H. Long Suffern Village Museum Suffern Railroad Museum 120 Wayne Avenue, Suffern, NY 10901 Phone: (845)...
Historic Preservation Resources
ORGANIZATIONS The Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Road, New City, New York 10956 Phone: (845) 634-9629 Fax: (845) 634-8690 info@rocklandhistory.org www.RocklandHistory.org Promotes preservation by giving annual Historic Preservation Merit Awards, conducting resource surveys and programs, and maintaining professionally directed archives and collections. Rockland County Planning Department 18 New Hempstead Road, New City, NY 10956 Phone: (845)..
HSRC Video Index
To view a video, click on the underlined title. History Happens - Be Part of It! (2:04) A look at the Historical Society of Rockland County and invitation for others to share their stories about formative events in Rockland County...
Virtual History Tour: Town of Haverstraw
Virtual History Tour of the Town of Haverstraw In 1616, the name "Haverstroo" made its first known appearance on a Dutch map. In 2016, the Historical Society of Rockland County presented "400 Years of Haverstraw," a self-guided Historic Homes & Landmarks Tour that highlighted the town's rich and vibrant history...
Rockland in the Revolutionary War
Significant Events In Rockland
The Orangetown Resolutions, part of a widespread movement of local protests against the British Parliament’s passage of the Intolerable Acts, are signed at Yost Mabie’s house in Tappan (most likely located around the corner from the current ’76 House, which at that time was owned by Yost’s brother Casparus). Fall...
#Flashback Friday
Week of April 18
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - ARTISTIC WORK - While in Piermont a short time ago, we had the gratification of examining a five feet model of the celebrated Post Bridge which was entrusted by that gentleman to the skill and ingenuity of ....
Week of April 11
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ The Spelling Match, which will take place at Smithsonian Hall next Tuesday evening, 18th inst., will be one of the most entertaining and amusing affairs that has ever taken place in our village ....
Week of April 4
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ Gone out for the season—the fire in the grocery stores, and the sitters go mourning about the streets. ☞ These would be nice nights for moonlight walks if the walking was only good and it was only moonlight. ...
Week of March 28
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ If the hens in this vicinity don’t do better than they have been doing, they will have to be squeezed to furnish eggs for to-morrow. ☞ The printing presses manufactured by the Aetna Machine Works, at Pearl River, ...
Week of March 21
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ Owing to the severity of the Winter which prevented ladies from traveling, the receipts on our railroad have fallen short nearly one hundred dollars per month. ☞ The Cadets of Temperance will hold a meeting ...
Week of March 14
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ We are under obligations to Robert Carpenter, esq., for a bound copy of the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors. The printing is every way creditable and equal to that done in the city ...
Week of March 7
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ Now that the steamer Walter Brett is sold, the proprietors of the Rockland Print Works are making arrangements to ship their freight by the N. J. & N. Y. Railway. ☞ Preaching in the Baptist Church to-morrow (Sunday) by the Pastor ...
Week of February 28
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ ☞ An Oyster Supper and Social, for the benefit of Rev. Wm. Stout, pastor of the M. E. Church, Piermont, will be held at the residence of Messrs. Ebersole and Conklin, on Wednesday evening, March ...
Week of February 21
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ A “scrimmage” occurred in one of our manufactories this week. Control your tempers, gentlemen, and “let us have peace.” ☞ Our ladies say that as water is so scarce now, and continues to grow scarcer every day, ....
Week of February 14
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME ☞ We suppose that poets throughout the land will soon begin to “gush” about “ Spring, gentle Spring,” and the cats of our village will set music to the words. ☞ Last Friday, 5th inst., Mr. A. L. Brewer, of Monsey, while cutting hay for his horses, caught his hand ....
Week of February 7
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - SLIPPING ON THE ICE - Slipping and falling on the ice has become a popular amusement in our village. All classes engage in it, regardless of age, sex or color. The effects produced by it are like those produced by a first-class drama—sometimes bringing tears, sometimes laughter. In the case of two ladies who fell last week ....
Week of January 31
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - ☞ During the night in which the late John C. Freeman, of Haverstraw, came to his death, his sister dreamed that he was drowned in Sherwood’s pond—the place where his body was found on the following morning. ☞ “Slasher and Crasher” is shortly to be brought out by the Piermont Division S. of T. ....
Week of January 24
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Rev. D. D. Mansfield has, we learn, secured a building, double the size of the Rockland Institute, one hour from Chicago, in which he will soon open a young ladies school ....
Week of January 17
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - The funeral of John Ross, eldest son of Edwin Ross, of Nyack, was largely attended from the Reformed Church on Tuesday afternoon. The firemen attended in a body. ☞ Nyack is progressing—This week a married woman went off with some other woman’s husband, ....
Week of January 10
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - PICTURE WORTH HAVING - Charles Graham, a most talented artist, has for several months past been engaged in sketching the unrivaled scenery of the Hudson between West Point and Yonkers. The result of his labor ....
Week of January 3
150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - Written for the Journal / DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR / Full knee-deep lies the Winter snow, / And the Winter winds are wearily sighing; / Toll ye the church-bell, sad and slow, / And tread ye softly, and speak low ....