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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Rockland County, New York
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| | It has been documented that the earliest settlers of the Tappan Patent owned slaves; indeed, Daniel DeClark owned two slaves when he lived on this site. These grave stones are attributed to a cemetery on farm land, once owned by the Mann family, . . . — — Map (db m7894) HM |
| | Here in 1950 a group of WWII G.I. Bill student-veterans from Shanks Village planned and built a community of homes cooperatively on McGillicuddy’s farmland. Houses and road were sited to preserve the natural environs. Low on funds, each family . . . — — Map (db m52951) HM |
| | Flags Dedicated In Honor Of
Lt. Col. Joseph E. Raso USA · Coneo DeMaio USN · Emmet C. Maines USA · Lt. Herbert J. Block USN · Signe A. Block · George D. Garrecht III USN · Charles E. Hauser USN · Edward C. Hauser Jr. USN · James P. . . . — — Map (db m111975) WM |
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This is the Bottom or Grinding Stone from a grist mill in nearby Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.
Two rotating wheels, turned by water power, ground corn and wheat kernels into flour. — — Map (db m7446) HM |
| | Purple Heart Memorial
Dedicated To The Brave Men And Women Who Made
Great Sacrifices While Serving Our Nation.
You Are Our Heroes.
Thank You For Your Service.
November 2013 — — Map (db m112060) WM |
| | Organized 1694
Used as a military hospital and prison during the Revolution. The trials of Major John Andre as a spy, and of Joshua Heit Smith for treason, were held here in 1780. — — Map (db m7375) HM |
| | 1694 1969
The Reverend
Guilliam Bertholf
Founder and First Minister
of
The Reformed Protestant
Dutch Church
Of Tappan,
First Settled Reformed Minister
In New Jersey,
Serving at Hackensack and Passaic
1694 – 1724
He . . . — — Map (db m112014) HM |
| | The Weeping Willow Tree you see is a shoot from what was recorded as the largest Weeping Willow Tree in the entire United States. The original tree was toppled by a storm on July 13, 1987.
Legend has it that the original tree was planted at the . . . — — Map (db m7443) HM |
| | In memory of the
343 NYC Firefighters,
37 Port Authority and
23 NYC Police officers
who gave their lives
in the line of duty on
September 11, 2001.
The
Dennis P. McHugh
Foundation
proudly supports
our country’s veterans. . . . — — Map (db m112061) HM |
| | Tappan
Historic District
1686
Tappan Permit
Protected by the Town of
Orangetown Local Law
Est. 1965
Town Board of
Orangetown — — Map (db m111974) HM |
| | Tappan
Historic District
1686
Tappan Permit
Protected by the Town of
Orangetown Local Law
Est. 1965
Town Board of
Orangetown — — Map (db m112015) HM |
| | Tappan
Historic District
1686
Tappan Permit
Protected by the Town of
Orangetown Local Law
Est. 1965
Town Board of
Orangetown — — Map (db m112016) HM |
| | Tappan Patent
Protected by the Town of Orangetown local law
Est. 1965 — — Map (db m124118) HM |
| | Tappan Patent
Protected by the Town of Orangetown Local Law
Est. 1965 — — Map (db m124368) HM |
| | Dedicated To The Memory
Of Those Who Served Their Country
1950 Korea 1953
American Legion Tappan Post # 1271
May 31, 1982 — — Map (db m111979) WM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m111977) HM |
| | Dedicated To The Memory
Of Those Who Served Their Country
1961 Vietnam 1973
American Legion Tappan Post # 1271
May 31, 1982 — — Map (db m111976) WM |
| | “Lest we forget” ♦ ♦ 1917 – 1918 ♦ ♦ Charles Ahrens • Gilbert Bell • Bonnard Blakeney • Gordon Blakeney • Harry Buckland • Joseph Grandell • George Garrecht • Samuel Gifford • Russell Goodyear • Jerome . . . — — Map (db m52957) HM |
| | Tappan World War II Memorial
In lasting tribute to those who made
The supreme sacrifice
Kenneth R. Johnson · John R. Klein · Russell McGuire · Robert Ortiz · Homer R. Stoughton, Jr.
In Honor Of Those Who Served
Lowery J. Able · . . . — — Map (db m111978) WM |
| | Dedicated to the American people as a shrine of Patriotism, an altar of Citizenship and a Memorial to George Washington, a great Mason, a great American. May 1, 1932.
M.W.Charles H. Johnson
Grand Master of Masons
State of New York — — Map (db m7317) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m8542) HM |
| | Built 1726, Domine Samuel Verbryck lived here during Revolution. He was friend of Washington. He founded Rutgers College, N.J. — — Map (db m8639) HM |
| | Site of the signing of the Orangetown Resolutions 1774 and the incarceration of British Spy Major John Andre 1780 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Restored in 1987 by . . . — — Map (db m52950) HM |
| | It Began with a Boom Just over a century ago, more than a thousand cubic yards of the Palisades Cliffs were being blasted away every day for a growing New York in need of roads and foundations. The constant explosions could be felt and heard . . . — — Map (db m53741) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m95511) HM |
| | This House was occupied by General George Washington as Army Headquarters on four occasions during the Revolutionary War.
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Here the General in 1780, after reviewing the evidence in the case of Major John Andre, Adjunct General of the . . . — — Map (db m7316) HM |
| | The British spy Andre, was found guilty, in the Dutch Church which stood, in 1780, on the side of this edifice. — — Map (db m7306) HM |
| | 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. . . . — — Map (db m7291) HM |
| | Washington’s Camp
On The Ridge West, 1782,
The American Army,
After Its Return From Yorktown,
Encamped Under Generals
Washington And Greene
Orangetown New York — — Map (db m112018) HM WM |
| | This is a Reproduction of the Personal Flag used by General George Washington, the Commander-In-Chief during the Revolutionary War.
Presented by R.W. Ronald J. Steiner, Chairman, George Washington Masonic Historic Site Committee, In memory of . . . — — Map (db m7442) HM |
| | Here Generals Washington and Wayne, surveyed the British fort on Stony Point and panned the victory Of July 15-16, 1779 — — Map (db m63946) HM |
| | This plaque commemorates the hudson river national defense reserve fleet moored at this point in the river from April 1946 to April 1971. At peak of activity, 189 WW II cargo and passenger ships were anchored here. These ships after heroic WW II . . . — — Map (db m36882) HM |
| | From this site Generals Washington and Wayne planned the storming of Stony Point — — Map (db m63718) HM |
| | This road was formerly Main Street
in the Hamlet of Rockland Lake.
In the early 17th Century the Dutch
named the local cliffs Verdrietige
Hoek, or "Tedious Point," which
referred to the area surrounding the
natural ridge of the . . . — — Map (db m84086) HM |
| | On this site stood the home of Colonel A. Hawkes Hay – Soldier, Legislator, Confidante of Washington. U.S. Bicentennial — — Map (db m8268) HM |
| | Washington led his army from Kings Ferry to this spot at which they divided to march south and west U.S. Bicentennial — — Map (db m94506) HM |
| | 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 m122159) HM |
| | 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 Dutch . . . — — Map (db m44204) HM |
| | The Nyack Turnpike Toll Road c. 1825 crossed the Oblenis Farm here, creating a busy intersection knows as Oblenis Corners at Strawtown and Sickeltown roads. The first post office named Nyack Turnpike was established in the New Oblenis Store in 1834. . . . — — Map (db m21381) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m15351) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m44200) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m21378) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m44201) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m26199) HM |
| | Site of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Hempstead Organized Jan. 12, 1750 First consistory Chosen Apr. 22 1750 First Stone Laid Jun. 11 1751 Dedicated . . . — — Map (db m44322) HM |
| | 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. The first owners were . . . — — Map (db m125289) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m15352) HM |
| | For almost a century the Clarkstown Reformed Church shared the services of its pastor with the church at Tappan. In 1834 a full-time pastor was called and this building, on a site across the road, was purchased for him. It was enlarged in 1835. . . . — — Map (db m26196) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m44203) HM |
| | 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 largely represents the Colonial Revival . . . — — Map (db m125290) HM |
| | 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 the . . . — — Map (db m54842) HM |
| | In commemoration of the men in the World War who entered the armed service of their country during 1917 – 1918 from West Nyack, N.Y. Arthur R. Conklin • John Conklin • Leroy A. Crumley • Edmund L. Galvin • Melvin H. Green • Hans C. Gronager • . . . — — Map (db m44319) HM |
| | This trough was built at a time when horses provided the basic means of transporting people and their possessions in Rockland County. It was fed by an underground spring that provided clean water for any thirsty animal in the neighborhood. Using . . . — — Map (db m21379) HM |
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