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This Week in Rockland: Newspaper Excerpts

2023-04-28 TWIR Image-US Hotel Haverstraw
Flashback Friday: Week of April 28
April 26, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ A boy in E. Burr’s shoe manufactor had one of his fingers so badly crushed, on Wednesday, by the molding machine, that it will have to be amputated.    ☞ The new hotel on the hill is minus two painters—they are sojourning for a...read more

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2023-04-05 TWIR Image-For tcomfort
Flashback Friday: Week of May 5
May 3, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ Stephen Billings commenced molding brick at the Tappan brickyard, on Tuesday last.    ☞ The Haverstraw people are making exertions to procure funds for a soldiers’ monument.    ☞ Shad and herring have at last made their appearance along our shores, and the fishermen are busy...read more

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2023-05-12 TWIR Image-TZ ferry boat
Flashback Friday: Week of May 12
May 10, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [Image: Ferry boat Tappan Zee, 1878, from the John Scott and Winston C. Perry Jr. collections, Nyack Library via NYHeritage.org.]    ☞ The new ferry-boat, Tappan Zee, commenced running on Monday. Her machinery works handsomely, and she made a trip—three miles—in eleven minutes.    ☞ R....read more

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2023-05-19 TWIR Image-Mine Hole
Flashback Friday: Week of May 19
May 17, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ “O world! thou art indeed a melancholy jest,” said Byron. We thought so while that organ-grinder was wasting his valuable time in front of an undertaker's shop on Broadway.    ☞ The improvements upon the Piermont Reformed Church are in active progress, the spire...read more

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2023-05-26 TWIR Image-Advertisement
Flashback Friday: Week of May 26
May 24, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ Some sacrilegious scoundrel, whom hanging would be too good for, tore up by the roots and mutilated nearly all the choice shrubs, and flowers on the burial plot of Edward G. Towt, in Oak Hill Cemetery, on Monday last. BOLD BURGLARY        On Tuesday afternoon,...read more

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2023-06-02 TWIR Image-Nyack
Flashback Friday: Week of June 2
May 31, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal HE COULDN’T UNDERSTAND IT        A shiny-coated humming-bird on a visit to Tappan was badly fooled the other morning. Wm. Devoe & Son’s window had been newly polished and ornamented with cans bearing pictured representations of the luscious fruits contained therein. Our little friend thought it...read more

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2023-06-09 TWIR Image-Salisbury
Flashback Friday: Week of June 9
June 7, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ The members of the Tappan Zee Club opened the season on Thursday evening by inviting a number of ladies to accompany them in their barge.    ☞ Charles Haines has nearly completed a handsome sixteen feet working boat. Charley is a thorough workman and...read more

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2023-06-16 TWIR Image-Dexter Folder
Flashback Friday: Week of June 16
June 14, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ The Nyack water works gave out about the same time that the Tidal Wave got aground. Is the water getting scarce on land and sea?    ☞ Since the first of this month the freight business of the N. R. & N. Y. Steamboat...read more

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2023-06-23 TWIR Image-Eckerson Washington Machine
Flashback Friday: Week of June 23
June 21, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ A favorite cow, belonging to John J. Lawrence, of Piermont, exhibited symptoms of madness last week, and upon water being thrown in her face, almost immediately died.    ☞ The Nyack Board of Trustees will meet at their rooms, Commercial Building at 10 A.M....read more

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2023-06-30 TWIR Image-Nyack Hospital c 1920
Flashback Friday: Week of June 30
June 28, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ Mr. Christie, our post-master, has just added one hundred and sixty-nine new boxes and otherwise greatly improved the post-office.    ☞ C. W. Root, Esq., of New City, has been appointed Deputy Assessor and Collector for Rockland County, and has entered upon his duties.  ...read more

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2023-07-07 TWIR Image-Congers Fire House
Flashback Friday: Week of July 7
July 5, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ The depressed condition of the brick business in Haverstraw is seriously affecting the interests of the place.    ☞ There is a lively old gentleman in Haverstraw, named John Kane, aged 83 years, who carries the hod as sprightly as a man of thirty.  ...read more

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2023-07-14 TWIR Image-US Hotel Haverstraw
Flashback Friday: Week of July 14
July 12, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal UNITED STATES HOTEL, HAVERSTRAW [Image: The United States Hotel, Haverstraw. Image courtesy of the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Library, via NYHeritage.org.]        While in our sister village a short time since, we dropped in to see our old friend, W. R. Funston, formerly of the Fairview House, Spring...read more

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