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 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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ....

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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  ....

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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 ....

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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. ....

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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 ....

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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, ....

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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 ....

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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 ....

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Week of December 27

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - MAKE THE WINTER PLEASANT - First, have plenty of good books and papers to read, and while you are causing the time to pass pleasantly, you will be storing your mind with knowledge that may be of great service ....

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Week of December 20

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - CHRIST CHURCH SPARKILL - The bestowal of praise where the meed is well deserved, is always a happy act. In this day and generation praise is a commodity more likely to be squandered than wisely spent ....

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Week of December 13

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - NEW ICE COMPANY - The “Rockland Springs Ice Company” is an institution which has lately been formed in our county, ....

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Week of December 6

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - A boy named Peter Riley in ascending in an elevator at the Print Works, Garnerville, on Saturday, projected his head over the side, and it coming in contact with a beam,  ....

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Week of November 29

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - BLIND TOM - Lovers of the curious in nature and art should not fail to hear and see this singular musical prodigy on Wednesday evening, at Smithsonian Hall. We listened to his performances ....

Week of November 22

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - When the flag side walks now being laid on DePew Avenue, between Broadway and the station, are complete, it will be one of the handsomest streets in the village ....

Week of November 15

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Arrangements are being made to have the trains stop at Wayside Station for the accommodation of citizens residing in that vicinity ....

Week of November 8

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - WORTHY OF IMITATION - An estimable young lady of Brooklyn, whose name we could not learn, felt moved a short time since to contribute her mite towards making the Wayside Chapel one of the most comfortable and cozy places of worship ....

Week of November 1

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - SPRING VALLEY AND GRASSY POINT ROADS - On Saturday last the Directors of the New Jersey and New York Railway Company, with friends and invited guests, rode over the new road as far as the bridge, which is being built ....

Week of October 25

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Company B., 16 Battalion, N.G., S.N.Y., of Nyack, will go to Peekskill on the 27th inst., where the Battalion will parade for the purpose of muster, discipline, inspection, and review, armed, and equipped and uniformed ....

Week of October 18

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - IS SHE DEAD? - Nyack is the proud and fortunate possessor of very many beautiful women, “belles” I suppose they may be called, very lovely in form and feature and some of them very dressy, but the one we appreciated the most wasn’t “dressy,” for she had nothing to wear: yes, actually went naked ....

Week of October 11

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Between eight and nine o’clock this (Friday) morning, while our docks were alive with people to witness the Biglin-TenEyck race, an alarm of fire was sounded on our church bells ....

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - LANDSLIDE - The recent heavy rains have caused quite a serious landslide on the river road, near the residence of Gen. Ullmann. The roadbed at this place has heretofore been supported by a wall some fourteen feet high ...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - HOWLING DOGS - Some of our citizens living on the upper part of Main Street are complaining of being kept awake nights by the howls of two or three dogs which belong to parties living in that locality ...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT - On Thursday afternoon a team of horses hitched to an express wagon loaded with grain, owned by Long & McMahon, and in charge of Michael Green, became frightened when near the corner of Franklin and Burd Streets...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - FLIES AS FOOD - The season is at hand when the diet of human beings is composed to some extent of house flies. These insects manage to get into soups, stews, puddings, &c., and are unwittingly eaten as a part thereof...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - AROUND HOME - Burglars tried to break into the residence of David Ebersole, Piermont Avenue, one night last week, but were frightened off by Mr. E....

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - ANOTHER OLD PAPER - From Mr. Timothy Horgan, of Nyack, we have received No. 155 of Volume III of the New York Morning Post, dated November 7th 1783. ...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - A NATIVE KILLED - On Wednesday morning last Jerry Martine brought into our office a package, which on being opened was found to contain a dead rattlesnake three feet four inches long...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - CLARKSVILLE HOTEL - This, for many years, popular hotel has recently changed hands, and is now the property of Captain Abram Knapp, late of Haverstraw, under whose management the house will be all that it has ever been in its palmiest days....

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - PARLOR MAGIC - On Wednesday evening last a select audience of about one hundred ladies and gentlemen assembled in the elegant rooms of Rockland Lodge F. and A. M., of Nyack...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - A LITTLE SHOOTING - On Monday last, police officer S. D. Hubbell served a warrant of arrest on a young man named James Johnson, who, on a former occasion, had committed some misdemeanor, but escaped justice...

150 YEARS AGO - Rockland County Journal - THE “CRIMSON MYSTERY” OF RAMAPO, AGAIN - A rumor from several sources reaches us that in a pond about one quarter of a mile distant from the slimy cave in the Ramapo Mountains, over which such an intense excitement prevailed last winter...