A handwritten letter to the Haverstraw Brick & Clay Co from the Secretary of the Garnerville Railroad written in 1888 in which the brick company is informed that the railroad line will pass over the brick company's land. At the bottom of the page,...
This 1885 gravestone in Mt. Moor Cemetery in West Nyack commemorates the death of a 37-year-old man whose first name was Arthur. Unfortunately, all the details are not clear in the image.
Arthur Royden Merritt, July 9, 1885 to September 20, 1970 was called "Butts." His son wrote a tribute: "The greatest dad and one of the finest guys who ever lived. Great athlete, talented musician, sweet man."
The Nyack Rowing Association was one of the finest club houses along the hudson, erected at a cost of over $10,000 when it opened in 1882. It was the scene of many social events. The lower floor was for the storage of boats, etc. On the second...
Schools; Building construction; Teachers colleges;
The Normal School under construction. Several workers are visible in front of the school, in the windows and on the tower. There are two women in front of the building and various townspeople. The bearded man holding the papers may be the foreman...
Inventory form for building located on East Lake Rd. recording the following information: W.O.J. Greeneveld-Meijer (owner at time of inventory). A one and a half story stucco on frame, wood shingled gambrel roof with shed dormers. Open porch...
The cable car grip was invented in Upper Nyack. Garret A. Polhemus received a patent in 1885; it was reissued in 1886. The man demonstrating its use may have been the inventor. The owner of the original photograph is Marion Polhemus Adams of...
Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Zouaves; Portrait photographs;
Carroll S. Waldron posed in his Zouave uniform against a backdrop of a Civil War camp scene. On the back of the photo is written, "A Nyack school boy who was also a 'boy of '61.' " Carroll Waldron was one of four Nyack brothers who served in the...
Color postcard announcing the Centennial Celebration of the Nyack Hospital. Back of postcard lists the events that are planned to celelbrate the event. The postcard image is a watercolor by Beverly Bozarth Colgan. The Nyack Hospital was...
A small bit of brown cardboard, cut from a larger item, shows the 1885 summer time-table for the steamer 'Chrystenah.' She left Peekskill at 6:30 AM and was at Verplanks Point at 6:50, then down the river. She stopped at Nyack at 8 o'clock but...
Postcard - View of house from driveway. Tudor style mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Levi P. Morton in 1885, completed in 1888. Building was located on Ellerslie estate, Morton Rd, Rhinebeck, NY
