Historical Markers and War Memorials in Nyack, New York
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Nyack is in Rockland County
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Erected by the
Rockland County Society
To commemorate the opening of the
Nyack Turnpike
Between Nyack and Suffern
The first direct highway across the County of Rockland and the first important public work undertaken therin by private . . . — — Map (db m33648) HM
A Bench by the Road
There is no place you or I can go, to think about or not think about, to summon the presences of, or recollect the absences of slaves; nothing that reminds us of the ones who made the journey and of those who did not . . . — — Map (db m130327) HM
Capt. John Green
1772-1842. Sloop Master and a founder of Nyack Steamboat Company 1826.
Trustee of Nyack Turnpike. Owned this house ca. 1819.
William G. Pomeroy Foundation 2021
807 — — Map (db m212745) HM
Ca. 1830 a group of local residents of Dutch Reformed faith began holding private religious services in Nyack. They built their first small church on this site in 1836 and in 1853 incorporated as The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Nyack. . . . — — Map (db m44226) HM
At this crossroads stood the home of the Edward Hesdra Family. This home is believed to have been a link in the underground slave railway, c1855. — — Map (db m18690) HM
This building, home of Empire Hook and Ladder Company no. 1 has, in recognition of its architectural significance, and under the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, been listed on the National Register of Historic Places . . . — — Map (db m44313) HM
Birthplace and boyhood home of the eminent realist painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The Hoppers’ forebears came from Holland in 1652, and the artist’s grandfather built this house in 1858. After graduating from Nyack High School, Hopper moved to . . . — — Map (db m44206) HM
This park was deeded to the
Village by the Tappan Zee
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Park Association in 1935.
The 9 trees around the
perimeter of the Park are in
memory of the 9 Nyack families
whose sons were killed in
World War I.
Charles . . . — — Map (db m84084) WM
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 . . . — — Map (db m44310) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m18274) HM
Placed by the Rockland County Society to mark the oldest building dedicated to God’s service now standing in the County of Rockland, New York ----- this ----- “Old Stone Church” was erected in the year 1813 by a newly organized Society of the . . . — — Map (db m44304) HM
Rockland Brink's Robbery
On October 20, 1981, a three-year crime spree in the New York Metropolitan area came to an end at this site. Members of the Weather Underground, a radical domestic terrorist group, robbed a Brink's armored car at the Nanuet . . . — — Map (db m33649) HM
