Petition sent to the New York State Legislature in 1813 to ask for the creation of a turnpike to run east to west between Suffern and Nyack. It would be titled the Nyack Turnpike.
This postcard shows First Avenue in Nyack. First Avenue runs from Broadway to the Hudson River. It appears this image was taken looking towards the Hudson River.
Route 9W, Haverstraw, NY. This image was used by Dexter Press, Inc. to make postcards in the 1930s. Dexter Press, Inc. was founded by Thomas A. Dexter in 1920 in Park Ridge, NJ. It moved to Pearl River in 1928. Dexter Press, Inc. moved to...
Horses; Carriages & coaches; Utility poles; Streets; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water);
Color postcars showing the Bight in Grandview, NY. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or " a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007) This postcard was postmarked May 21, 1909, it...
Horses; Carriages & coaches; Bodies of water; Bays (Bodies of water); Utility poles;
Postcard showing the Bight in Grandview. A bight is defined as "a bend in a coast forming an open bay" or "a bay formed by such a bend" (Mirriam Websters' Online Dictionary 2007). This postcard is postmarked March 8, 1905. It was sent...
"Now and Then and Long Ago" was compiled by Cornelia Bedell from other books, newspaper articles and new writings. The following excerpt was written in 1932 about a map of the Nyack Turnpike.
Side view of "The Willows," Harry S. Newton house, River Road, Nyack, NY.
Home of Arthur Merritt and children: Arthur Royden, Henry, Kenneth, Constance, and Florence.
Porcelain; painting; people; Bicycles & tricycles; top hats; beards; flowers;
Plate featuring painting of man on a bicycle (velocipede) with following words: "Velocipede or Accelerator. Going to Brighton at the rate of 10 miles an hour." Plate features painted line and floral design around rim.
Black and white postcard showing the main enterance of Adolf Zukor's Estate in New City. The postcard reads " The Main enterance Driveway to Estate of Adolf Zukor's, New City, N.Y.
Handwritten affidavit stating that Aurt Polhamus would not build a section of the Nyack Turnpike between the the property of James DClarks [DeClark] and Ramson [Remson] for $4000.00. Polhamus did not offer a reason why he would not build the road.
Affidavit of David Pye, surveyor who laid out the Nyack Turnpike. Pye testifies that he believes that Tunis Smith, Andrew Suffern and William Young acted honestly when laying out the Nyack Turnpike. John Green witnessed the David Pye's...
