This letter to the editor, clipped from the Chester Independent Republican newspaper, discusses two proposed routes for the new state road connecting Chester and Monroe. The swamp road, as "Farmer's Boy" calls it, was the one that was built. ...
Looking back from the front of the church, a balcony is seen. More details of the recessed ceiling are visible, but the picture is marred by a burst of light above the balcony.Compare this with #0523.
A large gambrel-roofed sandstone residence is attached to a small, curved roof sandstone house. On the lawn to the right is a covered well.The location of this house is unknown.
The explosion at the Nyack Aniline Dye Company in January 1919 practically demolished the entire factory complex. The skeletonised structure is surrounded by piles of bricks thrown out by the force of the blast. Photo made from a John Scott slide.
A long line of automobiles drives through a deep flood on the Nyack Turnpike in West Nyack. The nearby Hackensack River overflows its banks in times of very heavy rain. The photo is dated on the back, "1927".
A stone wall separates the Hudson River from a house right on the water's edge. Above it is a larger home with a wide porch and three dormers. A boathouse is at the far right. The steeple above the trees is that of St. Paul's Methodist Church,...
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
The Hackensack River has flooded over the Nyack Turnpike in West Nyack. Two men and a boy are seated on a log in front of a salt-box house on the left. Two men and two rowboats are in the waters beyond. Faintly written on the back of the picture is...
The South Nyack Station is isolated in the rubble and the bulldozers are getting close. Compare this picture with Nyack Library image #4665, which shows the Blue Flame, a restaurant, still standing.
Hook Mountain is in the distance, with the dock for the stone crushing operation beneath it. Another dock - probably a private one - is in the middle distance. The photograph was taken when the tide in the Hudson River was low.
