Nyack First Settlement

Nyack First Settlement. . , The Tappan Indians, from time immemorial, occupied these lands fronting on the river shore. Here, in summer, they lived upon the fish and oysters which the waters produced in abundance. In the Algonkian dialect, spoken by them, they called this localityNay – Ack which, being translated, means The Fishing Place , , The First Settlement , of white people within the limits of the present , Rockland County, New York , took place in 1675. when Harman Dowesen Tallman, a young Dutchman of Bergen, New Jersey – now Bergen Square, Jersey City Heights – located here, probably as an Indian trader. His own and other Dutch families followed a few years later and the Tallmans erected a mill upon the stream which still is known as Mill Brook. . The tract of land on which the principal part of Nyack Village is built remained in possession of successive generations of the Tallman family until 1799 when it was sold to Abraham Lydecker at less then $25 an acre. Lydecker, in 1813, sold the same tract toTunis and Peter Smith , to whom must be awarded the title of , The Founders of Nyack Village. for they, between 1814 - when there were but seven houses here – and 1828, laid out the first streets and sold building lots, thus starting the development of the modern village. , Incorporation of Nyack Village:. All the territory lying within the present bounds of Nyack and South Nyack was set off as an incorporated village October 23, 1972 - - - in a wave of dissension over public improvements the first charter was dissolved February 7, 1878 - - - The present Village of Nyack, within its narrower limits, was incorporated February 27, 1883. , This tablet erected by the Rockland County Society in the 263rd year of the settlement, A.D. 1938.