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This Week in Rockland: Newspaper Excerpts

2024-03-29 TWIR Image-Mowbray-Clarke
Flashback Friday: Week of March 29
March 28, 1874 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal NARROW ESCAPE        On Wednesday of this week, while Freddie, the only child of Daniel B. Van Houten, was riding on a heavily loaded wagon, on Broadway, near Sturtevant’s Piano Factory, he fell off, and both wheels of the vehicle passed over his body. Dr. Polhemus...read more

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2024-04-05 TWIR Image-Palmer House`
Flashback Friday: Week of April 5
April 4, 1874 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal PALMER HOUSE, NYACK-ON-THE-HUDSON [Image: Engraving of Palmer House, Nyack-on-the-Hudson, from the Rockland County Journal.]        We present our readers this week with a fine engraving of the Palmer House, which was so deservedly popular with a host of summer boarders during last season.        This elegant,...read more

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2024-04-12 TWIR Image-Rosetown
Flashback Friday: Week of April 12
April 11, 1874 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ A boy named Robert Gormley, aged thirteen years, was so injured by being caught in the machinery ot the Print Works on Thursday, ed inst. that he died the next day.    ☞ The spring supply of organ-grinders has commenced to arrive. They bring...read more

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2024-04-19 TWIR Image-New City Park
Flashback Friday: Week of April 19
April 18, 1874 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME    ☞ It costs $10 a year less to supply a hydrant with water than it does a cistern, and the cost of one cistern will pay for five hydrants.    ☞ A squad of Nyack young ladies, who were going down Franklin Street one evening...read more

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2023
Flashback Friday: Week of January 27
January 25, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal PEAT        The Coal and Iron Record publishes an interesting article on the extent of the peat fields of this country. According to its estimates our supply of this fuel will exceed that of Ireland 150 times. In Orange and Rockland counties, New...read more

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2023-02-03 TWIR Image-Day Care Center
Flashback Friday: Week of February 3
February 1, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal A CARD        The persons, who, in a sleigh, front of my gate, between two and three o’clock last Saturday afternoon, the 25th inst., ran over my little Tan Terrier, and left him to perish in the deep snow, —not having feeling or courage enough to...read more

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2023-02-10 TWIR Image-Walter Blount
Flashback Friday: Week of February 10
February 8, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME      ☞ The new bonnets worn by our ladies look like a cross between a locomotive smoke-stack and a custard pie.      ☞ For the first time in a number of years teams crossed on the ice this week between Nyack and Tarrytown.    ...read more

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2023-02-17 TWIR Image-Jazz
Flashback Friday: Week of February 17
February 15, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal EXPLANATORY — A gentleman who is intimately acquainted with the machinery of our State, or Turnpike road, since it was first chartered, called upon us this week and informed us that, owing to the very thinly settled district through which this road passes, and...read more

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2023-02-24 TWIR Image - arnold giles
Flashback Friday: Week of February 24
February 22, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS        The Rockland Central Railway has bought of Dr. I. H. Bartow about six acres of land at Tappan, upon which it is supposed the depot buildings will be located. The price was $3,000.        Jacob Siebert, of Nyack, has bought about one acre of...read more

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2023-03-03 TWIR Image-Val
Flashback Friday: Week of March 3
March 1, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME        Don’t put a bill “To let” on your house unless you mean business. A lonely Nyack lady did this, recently, as a practical joke on her husband, whose business compelled him to be out occasionally in the evening, and the consequence is she...read more

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2023-03-10 TWIR Image-Cathie Lent
Flashback Friday: Week of March 10
March 8, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME        At Piermont. — Haring & Conklin have remodeled the interior of their store. The change is a good one, giving greater room for displaying their stock and increasing the facilities of handling it. They are now ready to attend promptly to the wants...read more

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