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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CLN_tallman-budke-house_West-Nyack-NY.html
Tallman-Budke House. This dwelling, constructed in multiple phases from ca. 1791 to ca. 1880, represents the distinctive tradition of sandstone vernacular domestic architecture of Dutch-settled Rockland County, NY and adjacent Bergen County, NJ. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CLL_vanderbilt-budke-traphagen-house_West-Nyack-NY.html
Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen House. Pre-eminent Rockland County historian George H. Budke Jr. (1868-1948) grew up in this farmhouse. Situated on land originally owned by the Vanderbilt family, the house was expanded on multiple occasions and now lar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM113U_washingtons-encampment_West-Nyack-NY.html
This property on lot 13 in the 1727 division of the Kakiat Patent was part of the DeClark farm from which the name Clarkstown originated. In August 1780 General Washington and his troops encamped here on an ancient Indian village site. In 1880 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTRL_site-of-the-first-reformed-protestant-dutch-church-of-new-hempstead_West-Nyack-NY.html
Site of theFirst ReformedProtestant DutchChurchof New HempsteadOrganized ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? Jan. 12, 1750First consistory Chosen ? ? ? Apr. 22 1750First Stone Laid ? ?? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? Jun. 11 1751Dedicated ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Sep. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTRI_west-nyack-world-war-i-memorial_West-Nyack-NY.html
In commemorationofthe men in the World Warwho entered the armed serviceof their country during1917 - 1918fromWest Nyack, N.Y. Arthur R. Conklin · John Conklin · Leroy A. Crumley · Edmund L. Galvin · Melvin H. Green &…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOI_clarkstown-reformed-church_West-Nyack-NY.html
Worship services in this hamlet were held as early as 1740 in a log meeting house at the old burial ground northwest of historic Pye's Corner. The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was organized there in 1750. Initially services were in Du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOH_van-houten-fields_West-Nyack-NY.html
In 1937 Ralph Borsodi, author, economist and philosopher, organized a group for the purchase of this 106-acre Dutch farm to be divided into leased acreage plots. This became the largest self-administered, back-to-the-land community in Rockland Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOF_old-clarkstown-reformed-church-cemetery_West-Nyack-NY.html
A Dutch meeting house and burial ground occupied this site ca. 1740. The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was organized here in 1750. A sandstone building replaced the old wooden structure in 1826. This cemetery, in use for almost two centur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOE_colonial-clarkstown_West-Nyack-NY.html
Ancient Indian trails intersected at this place adjoining a large Indian village which extended to the Hackensack Creek. Early in the 18th century the De Clark family built a gristmill on these premises, scene of the last witchcraft trial in New Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHEK_pyes-corner_West-Nyack-NY.html
In 1798 Hendrick Van Orden, owner of a sandstone house on this site, sold the house and surrounding farm to Dr. Abraham Cornelison, who lived here 51 years. He became the first president of the Rockland County Medical Society in 1829. Isaac Pye pu…
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