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)...

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)..

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 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...

Week of January 16

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Young ladies, remember this is leap year. There are several young men in the vicinity of our office looking forward to the future in ....

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Week of January 9

50 YEARS AGO - The Journal News - GRIM MEMORY . . . LANDSLIDE - There was a plunge, a shivering of the earth and then there was stillness. It was the stillness of death for ....

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Week of January 2

190 YEARS AGO - North River Times - We last week inserted a brief notice of the death of the late Peter Taulman of Tappan, since which a friend has favored us with a few facts concerning his revolutionary services ....

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Week of December 26

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - We had the pleasure one day this week of paying a visit to and inspecting the large and handsome new building of Mr. Haddock, Piermont, ....

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Week of December 19

100 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Times - The State has purchased 600 acres of land in Orangetown, this county, for a new State Hospital to relieve the congestion in ....

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Week of December 12

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - Joseph Smith, an umbrella tinker, was arrested by Hubbell on Wednesday evening for being drunk and disorderly. On Thursday morning Judge Stephens  ....

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Week of December 5

100 YEARS AGO - Pearl River News - Henry J. Fernekes, indicted in Rockland County for the murder of the Pearl River Bank officials, was convicted of murder in the first degree ....

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Week of November 28

50 YEARS AGO - The Journal News - Turkeys may be the king of the Thanksgiving table, but they sure are stupid ....

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Week of November 21

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - Bogert Suffern has purchased the grocery business of William Van Wagennen, at Ramapo and the last named gentleman has removed ....

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Week of November 14

100 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Times - The cable used in hauling the cars of clay from the barges to be dumped on Fowler’s brickyard suddenly broke on Thursday afternoon causing  ....

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Week of November 7

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - It is the opinion of many that had our village trustees asked for an appropriation for, say 500 feet of hose, ten hydrants and one hose carriage ....

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Week of October 31

50 YEARS AGO - The Journal News - Children, costumed as spooks, hobgoblins and late model monsters, will parade from house to house tonight in search of treats, probably unaware ....

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Week of October 24

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - WASHDAY MADE EASY - John Reichling, of Blauveltville, has secured the sole right to sell in Rockland Co. the CHALLENGE WASHING MACHINE  ....

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Week of October 17

100 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Times - PHANTOM OF THE OPERA COMING TO HAVERSTRAW  - The Universal Film Company ha[s] selected Haverstraw for the Rockland County premier ....

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Week of October 10

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - CULTIVATION - Among all those who have come among us of late years, we know of no one who has done so much to cultivate a taste for the beautiful in art as our friend Isaac Van Wagner, the photographic artist ....

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Week of October 3

50 YEARS AGO - The Journal News - MAJOR JOHN ANDRE IN TAPPAN, A TRIP BACK IN TIME - If the foregoing sounds like Revolutionary War history from the year 1780, you certainly know your Revolution Actually, the scene took place only a few weeks ago  ....

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Week of September 26

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - There are some mammoth pumpkins being raised near Mr. Sheppard’s residence, on the Greenbush road. We don’t know whether they are being raised for the Fair ....

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Week of September 19

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - ABSOLUTE SECURITY - While visiting Haverstraw a few days ago we stepped into the Haverstraw National Bank and while there the cashier, Geo. H. Smith, and the president, Ira A. Hedges, invited us to  ....

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Week of September 12

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - The Thirty-second Annual Fair of the Rockland Co. Agricultural Society will be held at Spring Valley on the 28th, 29th and 30th insts. ... Take your wife, or if you have none take some other man’s wife,  ....

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Week of September 5

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - FERDON AVENUE - The extensive improvements made by Mr. John W. Ferdon during the past two years along the line of this favored avenue in Piermont are being endorsed  ....

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Week of August 29

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal -  AROUND HOME — PICNIC AT “SYLVAN GROVE” —

Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Wood, of Clarksville, gave a picnic in “Sylvan Grove,” Rockland Lake, for the especial enjoyment of the ladies  ....

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Week of August 22

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal -  Mr. Massalon, artist, has just finished in oil portraits of Com. Voorhis and wife, Mrs. Jacob Voorhis and Seth B. Cole. The work is most admirably executed and the likenesses almost perfect ....

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Week of August 15

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal -  Five shots, one of which must have taken effect, from the groans that were heard, were fired at burglars who were trying to enter a house near St. John’s Church, Piermont, ....

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Week of August 8

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal -  The regatta of the Tappan Zee Tub Club will take place Wednesday evening, Aug. 11th, at 7 o’clock, from John Van Orden’s beach, Piermont. Should the weather ....

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Week of August 1

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME -  A boat was stolen from J. Styles by the burglars who attempted to rob the residences of Messrs. Carrillo and Bode, on Thursday morning, ....

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Week of July 25

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME -  Get out that old sun-bonnet now and go huckleberrying. Our devil says— “I’m the huckleberry that can pick more huckleberries ....

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Week of July 18

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - A Piermont youth recently informed his mother that he sometimes tries very hard to step softly on the surface of the earth ....

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Week of July 11

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - THE CENTENNIAL YEAR - Our nation is beginning at length to enter heartily into the Centenary arrangements. What really constitutes the Centennial ....

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Week of July 4

Two diaries kept by Helen Verbryck Clark of Sparkill that cover the period from March 12, 1876, to the end of 1877, are a treasure of information about the social, cultural, and leisuretime pursuits of our forebears in Victorian southern Rockland County. Happy Fourth of July!

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