Looking down a dirt road along Rockland Lake at an old ice house. In the 1830's Rockland Lake was the center of an important ice industry, employing over 2,000 people. The ice was transported to Hudson River boats for transport to New York City....
Postcards; Lakes & ponds; Ice; Icehouses; Ice industry
The lake is ice covered, and the image is looking from the ice towards the shore. There are several men working on moving ice down a ramp. In the 1830's Rockland Lake was the center of an important ice industry, employing over 2,000 people. The...
Looking east down the Nyack Turnpike, West Nyack Road and Route 59A. Nyack Turnpike historical marker: Dutch farmers first settled here early in the eighteenth century on land purchased from Indians who had occupied this region for millennia. ...
Dutch farmers first settled here early in the eighteenth 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. ...
Schools; Classrooms; School children; Education; Girls;
Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, a student of the newly founded New Paltz Academy, writes a composition describing the Village of New Paltz in the early 1830's.; Sarah Maria Hasbrouck, the first child of Levi and Hylah Hasbrouck, was born on November 12,...
Undated needlework sampler created by Louisa Hasbrouck, constructed when she was a young girl. The sampler consists of the alphabet in capital letters and numerals 1 through 8 in red crossstitch. Each line is separated by different crossstitch...
Discussion includes Virgil Cross, his work at Mohonk Mountain House and the family business which included a coal yard, a grocery store and the Cross Lumber Company, and rationing during World War II.
