Phillip Sarvent, followed by 4 generations of his descendants owned this farm property, originally extending to the top of the mountain, from 1753 until 1905. An earlier house closer to the River was replaced by the sandstone center portion of the present house about 1813. A Victorian addition was added to the front and a similar addition was recently built at the back. The original stone house is still visible from the sides. Besides farming, the Sarvents operated a large quarry where, during the Revolution, several British landing parties were successfully repulsed by the Shore Guard militia.

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Refs: [100th Anniversary historical presentation].

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A Hudson River landing has existed here since the earliest settlement. Beginning in 1798, John VanHouten improved it with a commercial dock, boatyard, general store, post office and hotel. The boatyard has survived over two centuries under many owners. Between 1825 and 1853 about 24 small homes were built, mostly for owners with occupations related to the river. The second half of the century saw a few stores, some grander homes, a school and a block of row houses added.

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Built in about 1893 this combination store and residence has been a general store, candy store, liquor store, bookshop and art studio. Edward Hopper used it as the subject of his famous painting called "Seven A.M." in 1948.
The building dates back to the 1880s. It was built by James Voris, who was the owner of the shipyard at the foot of Castle Heights Ave, and built more sailing vessels than any other builder along the river. It was originally a general store with two floors of goods, which also served as a post office. The store did not thrive and the use of the building has changed over time: it has housed Ben Franklin Bookshop and Printery, an artist gallery, and a bookseller. It has been a private residence for most of this century. The building itself has hardly changed during all these years though. A side door and a decorative mantle beneath the third-floor window has been removed (adapted from [1]).
Meanwhile, in Hopper's painting we see a, "storefront cast in the oblique, eerie shadows and cool light of early morning. If the fullness of summer is suggested by the lush foliage at the left, the mood is decidedly off-season and desolate. The store’s shelves stand empty, and the few odd products displayed in the window provide no evidence of the store’s function. A clock on the wall confirms the time given in the title, and indeed the painting seems to depict a specific moment and place. Yet a series of Hopper’s preparatory sketches reveal that he experimented with significant compositional variations, depicting a figure in the second-story window. He even considered setting the painting at another time of day. Josephine Hopper described the storefront as a “blind pig,” a front for some illicit operation, perhaps alluding to the painting’s forbidding overtones." (adapted from [2])

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Perry Lane was built as access to the Daniel Perry boatyard and home in 1836. Later residents of the Perry home included famous playwright Ben Hecht, filmmaker Bill Gunn, musician Sam Waymon and actress Ellen Burstyn.

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The oldest surviving place of worship in Rockland County, it was built in 1813 as the first building of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in Nyack. It was served by circuit-riding ministers, was built in part by slave labor, and includes a slave gallery. Construction included locally-quarried stone, hand-hewn timbers and blacksmith-forged hardware. It served as a nondenominational church during the twentieth century, and is now owned by the Village of Upper Nyack as a public meeting place.
Lantern slide still image below via [1].

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Refs: [1], [Centennial galleries].

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Peter Williamson, said to be the last surviving person born in bondage in Rockland County, and credited with having worked on the construction of the Old Stone Meeting House as an enslaved boy, lived here with his wife Emeline in a house made available to her as a servant in the Hugh Maxwell home across Broadway. The Williamson house was within the present northbound lane of Broadway and had to be moved when the road was straightened.
Jeremiah Williamson acquired a farm of about 90 acres around 1750. The farm stretched from the Hudson River west to above 9W, north of Upper Nyack Brook. The farm was referred to as the Williamson “plantation” in a lengthy 1932 article in City and Country. Peter Williamson’s birth year is not known precisely. [..] Most documents estimate 1805 as Williamson’s birth year, but it is likely to have been earlier, and may have even occurred before the turn of the century. Whatever the date, Peter Williamson was likely born into the stew of slavery by another name during the time of the Gradual Abolition Act. As a slave, he carries the name of his owner. In 2024 the Village created new signage to document and remember Peter Williamson - see a scan in the images below.
(content adapted from [1]).

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Old Mountain Road was one of the earliest roads in Nyack that wound its way uphill along the Upper Nyack Brook. The Old Palmer Burial Grounds just west of Broadway contains 80 graves of early settlers including that of Cornelius Kuyper, Upper Nyack’s first settler and owner of much of Nyack who died in 1731, along with the graves of 3 Revolutionary War veterans. Upper Nyack’s first school in a one-room schoolhouse built in 1844 was once located on the southern side of Old Mountain Road near Midland Ave.
Two headstones are pictured here (below), one from 1731 and one from 1735. They are located in the Old Palmer Burying Ground on Old Mountain Road, Upper Nyack. The 1731 stone is marked CKD and is the grave of Cornelius Kuyper, son of Claus Jensen Purmurent, the first owner of land in Rockland County. The 1735 stone marks the resting place of Cornelius' wife, Aeltje" [1].
View a searchable list of residents via rocklandgenealogy.org.
View the Old Palmer Burying Ground gallery, a detailed photographic inventory made by Jeff Tangredi in 2003 and presented to the Historical Society of the Nyacks (as an Eagle Scout Project).

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Nyack was a stop on The Trip to Bountiful. The award-winning play of that name was written by Horton Foote, who lived in this house in Upper Nyack in the 1950s [addendum: in fact, he lived in the house next to Glenholm, now demolished]. Foote joined theater greats Helen Hayes, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht and Carson McCullers who called our village home [2].
In the 1998 tearjerker “Stepmom,” starring Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts, it was home to Sarandon’s character and her children. The filmmakers took full advantage of the exterior charm with lingering shots of the mansard-roofed house in every season. While the interior shots were filmed on a sound stage, the sets were clearly inspired by the real rooms. The house made another silver screen appearance in 2010, this time as a bed and breakfast in “Bounty Hunter” with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler [4].

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Refs: [1], [2], [3], [4] .

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The 12-acre preserve is owned and managed by the Village of Upper Nyack since 2018. Prior to this, it was the home of the Haring family who built a large, country-style estate house on a 31-acre farm in 1934. River Hook Farm was later owned by Hester Haring Cason and her husband. Sheep grazed in the open fields as late as 2000.

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The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine were given the 79-acre estate known as Larchdale in 1924 abutting Hook Mountain and running from the Hudson River to Rt. 9W. The sisters held summer camps for girls and hosted children from the city during the summer months. The land and convent house east of Broadway were sold in the 1960s and 30 acres were sold as parkland in 2017. Marydell Faith & Life Center manages educational programs on the remaining 10 acres.
The mother house of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine was on the east side of Broadway from 1924 to 1960. The property was called Mary- to honor the Virgin Mary and -dell, a small vale. The house was surrounded by trees and had a small greenhouse or conservatory at the front [1].
Larch trees once lined the road at the north end of Broadway, where the state park entrance is today. The area was called Larchdale. The lane that led uphill to the west in now called Larchdale Avenue... The traffic circle at the end of Broadway was once their property but it was granted to the village to facilitate the flow of traffic at the end of North Broadway and to provide access to Nyack Beach State Park. In exchange, the village extended Midland Avenue to the gate at the Marydell Camp. None of the larch trees are alive today [2].

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Larchdell’s barn is now a renovated home just before the entrance to Nyack Beach. Tucker’s grand Victorian was replaced by Rivercliff, now a 16,000 sq. foot Georgian-style house. During the 1930s, Rivercliff was the home of Anthony Fokker, a Dutchman who designed airplanes including the most successful WWI fighter. Fokker had a huge dock for his speed boats [1].
Before Rivercliff however, the Undercliff mansion, was, "built in 1885 by Arthur C. Tucker, was a riverfront Victorian confection designed for entertaining and leisure. The 22-room home was equipped with a 65-foot octagonal tower and a kitchen with a stove capable of cooking for 200 people. It stood at 649 N. Broadway in U. Nyack, and lasted but one generation before it was torn down to make way for a new mansion... Arthur Tucker became seriously ill and resigned as president of U. Nyack in 1911. He died after a long and painful illness in 1917 at a home he owned in Pelham. The new owner of the estate had a different vision for the house, and replaced Tucker’s Victorian confection with a Georgian mansion that still stands." [2].

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This home is perhaps that of Aury Smith from the time of the Revolutionary War. It has been much expanded since that time. Just south of the lane to John Smith’s residence is a red clapboard farmhouse facing south and mostly hidden by trees and a stone wall. It was once small Dutch cottage topped with dormers and thought to be the home of Captain Aury Smith who served with his brother in the Nyack Shore Guard Militia. The house is rumored to have a resident poltergeist. The Smith brothers are buried in the Old Palmer Burial Grounds on Old Mountain Road in Upper Nyack [1].

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A large depression appears in front of a modern brick house set back from Broadway. This is one arm of one of Nyack’s earliest quarries from which brownstone was quarried for export to NYC. The quarry was started by the Smith Brothers near the dividing line of their properties. Major John Smith, a hero of the Revolutionary War once lived at the foot of the small lane that leads from Broadway to the River. His riverfront house , with walls some two feet thick as protection from British cannon shots, was later the home of a Civil War officer, Wilson Defendorf [1].

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One of Upper Nyack's original grand homes, The Pomeroy House is a classic Mansard slate roof Victorian that retains its original wide hardwood floors, intricate crown moldings, brass hardware and soaring floor-to-ceiling windows [1].

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The Upper Nyack Firehouse, built in 1887, is a wood-framed brick building that once served as the Upper Nyack Village Hall and is now the home of Upper Nyack’s resident fire company, Empire Hook and Ladder Company #1. Located immediately adjacent to the current Village Hall, the Firehouse was designated in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 by the U.S. National Park Service [1].

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In the late 1800s there was a large brick house at 18 Castle Heights Avenue. Before its Victorian remodeling, this house was of Federal design, a style popular in the early 19th Century during the time that John Van Houten and his son-in-law, Tunis Tallman, owned the site. This is how the house looked after its remodeling in about 1860 in the Queen Anne Style by architect Horace Greeley Knapp for the Gilchrest family. There are many interesting elements: the tower with four hooded windows, the balcony over the porte cochere, the pair of chimneys on either side of a half-round balcony, and the dual sunbursts. [1].

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This historic two-story building houses the Village Hall on the First Floor and tenant office space on the Second Floor. It is the only building in this district with off street parking, located directly behind it and accessed off Castle Heights Avenue. For the first 15 years of the incorporated Village of Upper Nyack there was no Village Hall. The Upper Nyack Board of Trustees met in the home of the Board President or a Village Trustee. Then, when the Upper Nyack Firehouse building was built in 1887, it began as a combination Village Hall and Firehouse with the Village Meeting Room and Village Offices on the Second Floor. Accessible only by a long flight of stairs, over time the location of the Village Hall on the Second Floor of the Upper Nyack Firehouse building became increasingly difficult. The Village acquired the existing two-story, wood-framed, former store building next to the Firehouse in 1973. Upon completion of renovations that included making it wheelchair-accessible, the building was dedicated that year as the new Upper Nyack Village Hall.

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Refs: [1], [2], Village Comprehensive Plan, April 2021

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The Summit School at Nyack’s picturesque campus is located on approximately 10 acres of land in the village of Upper Nyack, New York. The property was originally the estate of Justin DuPratt White. Built in 1927, it provided a riverfront setting for an elegant home, complete with stables, greenhouse, and springfed pool. Once completed, the estate was named Miramare. “Mira” is Spanish for “look at” and “mare” is Italian for “the sea.” This name reflected the sweeping views of the Hudson River and also the Italian background of White’s wife, Anita Lombard Bradley. White attended Nyack High School and graduated from Cornell University in 1890. He established his career as a lawyer and he and his wife served on the Village Board in Upper Nyack for many years. They were also instrumental in founding Nyack Hospital. He was a founding member of the Rockland County Historical Society and was instrumental in the preservation of much of the Harriman State Park system, serving as one of the original commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park. He is buried in Nyack’s Oak Hill Cemetery. From 1934 through 1972 the Miramare Estate was the home of the Nyack Boys School. The Summit School at Nyack was created in 1974 as a residential program initially associated with Summit Queens founded by Mayer Stiskin. [1]

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The boatyard originally started by John Van Houten has survived under a succession of owners, both thriving during good periods and losing money during depressions. Many sloops, schooners and steamboats were built there, and the boatyard has the distinction of having had the first marine railway on the Hudson and of being the first to put a retractable centerboard in a large wooden ship. Known locally for many years as Petersen’s Boatyard, under the ownership of Danish-born Julius Petersen the boatyard built motor yachts for some of the wealthiest Americans. During World Wars I and II the boatyard contributed to the war effort and built air-sea rescue boats and patrol boats for the military. After many years of storing and repairing pleasure boats, the boatyard under its current ownership does business as North River Shipyard, repairing larger commercial boats and building docks [2].

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Since 1954, the Nyack Field Club has provided family-style recreation for its members. The club has prospered on a piece of property that was twice famous, once for hosting world-class tennis tournaments and later as a resort created by America’s first major yoga practitioner, Pierre Bernard. Exemplified by board members that average many years of service, the club is guided by leaders who speak sanguinely of a place where life-long friendships are made. Something in these 12 acres of soil has inspired successive generations to indefatigably organize competitive sports, recreational games and social gatherings [3].
The old Nyack Country Club was is a large brick building on North Midland Avenue in Upper Nyack, approximately the same location as today's Nyack Field Club. The building had several large chimneys and a wrap-around porch. On the north side were tennis courts [1].
The main house of the Maxwell Estate, also known as the Rossiter House, was surrounded by a 15-acre lawn and was noted for its views of the Hudson River and the hills of Westchester County. It was a splendid addition to the properties of the Clarkstown Country Club in the 1930s. It is close to Midland Avenue in Upper Nyack and is now the field house of the Nyack Field Club [2].

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Upper Nyack Brook is normally a quiet brook, but after rain storms it races downhill carving out deep glens in several places. Old Mountain Road, called the “Road to the Pond” by early settlers, remains much as it was, a narrow, twisting, and shady road with sharp grades. Appropriately, an estate known as Brookside once bordered the south side of the brook. With no sidewalks, pedestrians must be wary of speeding cars. During this troubled spring of 2020, a stop at the nearly 300 year-old Palmer burial grounds provides a hushed reflection on the long arc of time. [..] Upper Nyack Brook crosses Broadway at Crumbie’s corner where Old Mountain Road meets Broadway. These were once the only roads leading to Upper Nyack farms. On commanding hills on each side of the intersection are two picturesque old homes. [..] The brook flows around the house and then downhill from Cumbie’s Glen to the Hudson River. Rainstorms create cascading waterfalls that are hidden from public view as a gated private road cuts off access. Near here, Native Americans who followed the path along the brook would camp in summer where the brook enters the Hudson River, a perfect spot for fishing and oystering [1].

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This luxurious Indiana limestone mansion, known as River House, was built in 1909 by Italian masons for Wilson P. Foss. A native of Haverstraw, Foss, president of the Rockland Lake Trap Rock Company, made a fortune in quarrying. The tiled roof, wrought iron railings, and stone patio supports are all unusual architectural details for this area. Foss was a businessman who had interests in the quarries on Hook Mountain.
(adapted from [1][2]).

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"Nyack Beach State Park is a 61-acre state park in Upper Nyack, Rockland County, New York.. It is known for its physical proximity to the Hudson River on one side of the pathway and the looming cliffs of the Palisades rising 700 feet above on the other side. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission purchased what was to become Nyack Beach State Park in 1911 to provide space for recreation, and to protect the land from the effects of quarrying that were impacting the Hudson River Palisades during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.. As the name implies, the park originally included a swimming beach which has been closed for many years due to pollution in the Hudson River. In 2005, it was suggested that the beach could be reopened for swimming due to the improved condition of the river. Hawks and raptors nest in the cliff and are easily viewed from the pathway" [1].
At times, "millions of tons of rock were blasted out of Hook Mountain and then crushed. Finally the rock was transferred to the long, high wharf where it was loaded onto barges and sent down the Hudson River. Quarrying was gradually halted after the Palisades Interstate Park Commission bought the land. The area is now Nyack Beach State Park" [2].

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In the late 1800’s distinguished large estates with beautiful landscaped grounds became more and more prevalent in the Village of Upper Nyack. Prominent bankers, lawyers, people from the New York theater and business found their way to this small village - taking advantage of wonderful views of the Hudson and surrounding hills.
One of these estates with a beautifully detailed Georgian style residence was developed by Stephen Bradley Jr. Bradley’s father Stephen Bradley Sr. founded Fiber Conduit Company in Orangeburg N.Y. in 1893. The company grew to be one of the largest producers of conduit in the United States meeting a huge demand by the creation and evolution of electricity and telephone communications. Bradley Sr. died in 1910. Stephen Bradley Jr. became president of Fiber Conduit and led the flourishing company until 1932. It was in this period the Bradley estate, in Upper Nyack came into being. The main residence, carriage house, barn structures, orchards, tennis court, covered an area from Midland Avenue to North Broadway and from Old Mountain Road Northward almost a quarter mile. The main house sits on the highest and most secluded part of the property with panoramic views of the Hudson, Westchester hills and Hook Mountain.
Over the years substantial parts of the estate were subdivided including a large area to the east - now Wydendown Road. For the past fifty-five plus years the main house with remaining grounds has been the home of Marisol and John Stokes and stands with dignity as the “big house at the top of the hill “. It is one of the finer examples of Georgian Architecture in Rockland County and the lower Hudson Valley.
[text by John Colgan, 2022]

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Built about 1799, this is one of the oldest surviving houses in Upper Nyack. It was the home of John Van Houten who operated a landing, boatyard, general store, post office and hotel at the foot of Van Houten Street and Castle Heights Avenue for about 50 years. He also sold lots and began developing the neighborhood. The businesses were carried on by his son, John Van Hoten Jr., and granddaughter Eleanor "Ellen" Van Houten Tallman. The Mansard Style roof was added to the house in the Victorian Period.

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This meadow, with its freshwater spring has yielded many Lenape artifacts, as has the rest of Upper Nyack, especially when it was farmed. Shell middens along the shore are evidence of prolific oyster beds offshore and the fact that oysters were a mainstay of the native diet. Victims of European diseases and the appropriation of their land by European settlers, surviving Lenape moved west soon after White settlement in the late 1600s, leaving only a few artifacts and their place names. The last native encampment Upper Nyack was in 1817 when several canoe loads of up-river Indians stopped here on the way to a gathering on Long Island.
The Lenape, also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. Today, Lenape people belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma; the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin; and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario [1].

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This beautifully restored Second-Empire-Style house was built for John W. Shuler after he bought the property in 1861. Shuler was said to have done well selling supplies to prospectors during the Gold Rush. He financed the building of the Empire H&L firehouse for the Village.

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Originally designed by architect H. Greeley Knapp for JA Bennett, US Consul to Bogota. This was the home of the Johnson-Deyrup family for nearly 90 yrs. Alvin Saunders Johnson (b.1874) purchased the estate in 1919 as a summer residence for his wife, Dr. Edith Henry Johnson, and their 7 kids. Editor of the New Republic, Johnson founded the New School for Social Research that same year. In 1933 he enlisted the help of the Rockefeller Foundation to establish the Univ. in Exile within the New School as a means of aiding more than 200 scholars fleeing Nazi Germany. In 1944, he drafted NYS' Ives-Quinn Bill that criminalized discrimination and become the basis for similar legislation throughout the US. Art educator, scholar, and statesman, Alvin (d.1971) shall be forever remembered for his contributions to mankind. [text extracted from the historical plaque]
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"Now I thought you would like to know about this interesting old house. At present the number is 309, but it used to be 200. That was a big change. But many things remain the same in this whole environment. The house was completed in 1887 for Mr. John A. Bennett. He spent a vast amount of money on the house to make it just what he wanted. It was a wonderful Victorian example. It was so sensational that reports took the whole front page of the local paper. He spent a lot of money on it and he did all sorts of wonderful things inside." (the words of Astrith Deyrup in a 2006 interview [1])

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This delightful home is a very early house in the neighborhood. Probably the tiny left-hand wing was the original house, and the larger north wing was an addition, but they're both very old. At one time they belonged to Captain Andrew Kinnier, who was the owner and captain of a schooner that was docked at the Van Houten's landing, engaged in the coastal trade - what they called a packet - it carried merchandise from port to port. His obituary states that he was famous for rescuing 7 people from drowning at one time or another, on the Hudson. The house later belonged to Richard Mole, Sr. and Jr. Senior was quite a talented artist. (text adapted from [2]))

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Harry Atwood was speeding down the Hudson at 50 MPH when a connecting rod in airplane's engine melted and he came down in an Upper Nyack orchard, north of Lexow Avenue and west of Broadway. During the week he waited for repairs, nearly all of Nyack went to see the plane. Atwood had been attempting to capture the world's record for the longest trip by air when he landed on the W. D. Davies property, just short of his New York City destination. See articles in the Journal-News, December 6, 1965 and "South of the Mountains," April-June, 1984 [1].
The propeller of the plane was chain driven and there were no wheels, just runner - skids. The operator had two foot pedals and two hand levers to steer the plane [2].

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The Old Palmer Burial Ground - est. 1731 - sits on land which once belonged to the first settler in the Nyack area. In 1685 Col. Cornelius Kuyper and his wife, family and slaves become the first European settler in the Nyack area. Kuyper had Dutch ancestry and was the son of Claus Jensen, the first landowner in Rockland County. The photos in the gallery below shows 2 graves, entitled CKD (Cornelius Kuyper Died) and AKD (his wife, Aeltje Kuyper Died) are inscribed with the dates of death (adapted from [1]).
View a searchable list of residents via rocklandgenealogy.org. View the Old Palmer Burying Ground gallery, a detailed photographic inventory made by Jeff Tangredi in 2003 and presented to the Historical Society of the Nyacks (as an Eagle Scout Project).

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Augusta Tremper's house in Upper Nyack. She began teaching at Nyack's Liberty St School (Depew and Liberty) in 1876 and had a nickname, Gussie. She was later an assistant principal. In one photo her dark hair piled up, is wearing a dress with a high and lacy collar. In 1876, approximately 40 students in all grades attended the school. The principal was M. R. Cook. In those days, all his teachers - including Tremper - were required to pass an exam attesting to their subject competency [3].

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In 1961, the Congregation Sons of Israel was located at the corner of South Broadway and Hudson Avenue. [But] in June 1964, having outgrown their aging temple on South Broadway and Hudson Ave, CSI sold the building to Berea Seventh Day Adventist Church for $70,000. A property on North Broadway was acquired (said to be owned by the Pitkin/Lotts), a colonial style mansion was demolished and new construction undertaken. The stone sculpture that makes the Congregation Sons of Israel one of the most distinctive structures in the region was designed by Connecticut artist James Hennessy. Hennessy was commissioned to create a work of art depicting the tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were engraved. The firm of Marchese and Hamersma of Clifton, New Jersey created the massive wall that tells the story of the tribes of Israel in stain glass. While construction was being completed, services were held in a carriage house on the property that was converted into a house of worship by congregation member and owner of Rockland County’s largest construction firm, Harry Degenshein [2].

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