Three men examine a car which has struck a telephone pole in Valley Cottage in 1918. The left front wheel is on the left side of the pole but the same side headlight is on the right. This may have been the earliest picture of a car crash in...
W. N. Campbell had a blacksmithing and wheelwrighting business in Valley Cottage, located to the left of the post office and general store. The sign over the door includes the slogan, "In all its branches." In front of the business are W. N....
This beautiful Russian Orthodox chapel is at the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, NY. Lovely paintings above the altar illustrate many saints and Bible stories.
The front of St. Sergius Russian Orthodix Church is simple: the round arch of the doorway repeated in two places on the front facade - and with a single onion dome above the roof.The church is at the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, NY.
The Hick Family has gathered on the front porch of the Valley Cottage General Store and Post Office. The older woman, identified only as Grandma Hick, was the postmistress. With her are two sons, Walter and Arthur, and a daughter, Edna. Standing on...
This neat sandstone residence has two parts, looking like steps on a small hill. The door for each section is on the right; the windows have white shutters. There is a well in the yard.
In 1915, this bucket brigade helped to fight a brush fire at Casper Hill. The caption has arrows pointing to a few of the men. On the left is a Garrabrant. In a little from the left is A. Hicks. On the right is H. Hess. Also on the right are a...
Kearny's Meat Market wagon of Congers is in downtown Valley Cottage, where Lake Road meets Kings Highway. The building on the left was the Valley Cottage Post Office and also a general store and grocery. The larger building on the right was a...
Top caption reads: Residence of E.M. Wall, Esq, Haverstraw, NY. Bottom caption reads: Residence of Harvey E. Polhemus, Valley Cottage, Rockland County, NY.
The Ryder residence in Valley Cottage was a simple L-shaped dwelling, with a small porch on the left and a bay window on the right. The six people standing by the bay window are identified as (left to right) Rachel Ann Ryder, Aaron Ryder,...
The De Baun House or "The Valley Cottage" is a Dutch sandstone house at 381 Kings Highway in Valley Cottage. For many years it was a business where antiques were bought, sold, and appraised.
This two-story L-shaped Victorian home with a three-story square tower was the Valley Cottage residence of Harvey Polhemus. A lithograph of this house is in the 1876 'Combination Atlas map of Rockland County," reprinted in 1975.
Valley Cottage men, presumably those who served, stand on either side of the World War Memorial Plaque, which was affixed to a boulder in the school yard. Children watch from the ceremony from the school windows. See also Nyack Library image #2495.
Valley Cottage men pause after the affixing of the World War I memorial plaque to a boulder. Children look out of the open windows of the school. This must have been a big event in the tiny hamlet.
