| New York (Rockland County), New City — Blauvelt House — History Center of Rockland County |
| | This Dutch farm house and the adjacent buildings stand on what was once part of the Kakiat Patent. The land was acquired by Jacob Abramse Blauvelt in 1741. Eleven generations of Blauvelt descendants thereafter farmed the land. The middle sections of the present house as well as the barn and shed were built ca. 1780. The main part of the house dates from 1834. The Historical Society acquired the buildings and four acres of the farm in 1970. Sponsored by Dellwood Country Club — Map (db m15139) |
| New York (Rockland County), Nyack — Oak Hill Cemetery |
| | This nonsectarian cemetery was dedicated on June 27, 1848 before a crowd of 3,000 people. The establishment of the cemetery reflected a transition from small family or religious cemeteries. Oak Hill Cemetery has been enlarged several times and occupies 65 acres. It is the final resting place of the founders of Nyack and other area families, including veterans, artists, writers, and scientists, among many others. Earlier burials from some small local cemeteries were transferred here. — Map (db m18274) |
| New York (Rockland County), Palisades — Skunk Hollow |
| | Skunk Hollow or, “the mountain,” was a free black community from 1806-1905. The first known deed dated 1806 belonged to Jack Earnest from Palisades. In 1841, William Thompson, an African Methodist Episcopal itinerant preacher bought Jack’s house, built a church on his land, and became resident preacher. Over one hundred families lived in Skunk Hollow including Brown, Oliver, Sisco, Thompson, Williams and others. — Map (db m8630) |
| New York (Rockland County), Tappan — The First Courthouse |
| | A log structure, with whipping posts and stocks, was erected on this Tappan green C. 1691. Here justice was administered to all of Orange County, which then included present Rockland. A more permanent courthouse and "gaol," built in 1739, was destroyed by fire in 1774. New City became the seat of government when the County of Rockland was set off from Orange in 1798. — Map (db m8542) |
| New York (Rockland County), Tappan — Washington and Carleton Meeting |
| | Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the meetings between General George Washington and General Sir Guy Carleton at Tappan and aboard H.M.S. Perseverance. Jointly by the Historical Society of Rockland County and Tappantown Historical Society.
Dedicated May 15, 1983 — Map (db m7291) |
| New York (Rockland County), West Haverstraw — Treason House |
| | At Joshua Hett Smith’s home here, Sept. 22, 1780 Benedict Arnold betrayed the plans of West Point to British spy Maj. Andre. Historical Soc. Rockland County — Map (db m8547) |
| New York (Rockland County), West Nyack — Clarksville Inn |
| | This historic inn built by Thomas Warner in 1840 was a stopping place for stage coaches and travelers to and from the Port of Nyack. It was a center of social life for more than a century and the scene of farewell balls for recruits during the Civil War. Known in the recent decades as the Clarksville Inn, the buildings on these premises were restored in 1957. — Map (db m15351) |
| New York (Rockland County), West Nyack — Mount Moor Cemetery |
| | This "Burying ground for Colored people", was deeded on July 7, 1849 by James Benson and Jane Benson, his wife, to William H. Moore, Stephen Samuels and Isaac Williams, trustees. The cemetery has provided burial space for colored people, including veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II and the Korean War. The grounds have been maintained since 1940 by the Mount Moor Cemetery Association, Inc. — Map (db m21378) |
| New York (Rockland County), West Nyack — The Nyack Turnpike |
| | Dutch farmers first settled here early in the 18th century on land purchased from Indians who had occupied this region for millennia. Under mounting pressure for a cross-county road between the port of Nyack and Ramapo a turnpike was built. The section through the Greenbush Swamp and "the little swamp" here in Clarksville was opened by 1825. When completed in the 1830's the turnpike became a toll road until 1893. — Map (db m15352) |
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