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2026 Historic Preservation Merit Awards

Five awards in five different categories were given this year at the Rockland County Executive’s Historic Preservation Merit Awards Ceremony and Country Supper on May 17.

Independence Day, July 4, 1774: The Orangetown Resolutions, by Isabelle K. Savell

We are reprinting this article by the noted Rockland historian, published postumously in the October-December 1988 issue of South of the Mountains.

Jennifer Rothschild, Director of Public Programming

COVER PICTURE. Historic Preservation Merit Award Winners. Front row (lef to right): Maryellen LeWarn, Ironwood Garden Design; Walter Aurell, Aurell Garcia Architects; Rex Whiddon, Columbus State University; Margaret Garcia, Aurell Garcia Architects; Kristi Thurston, Holly Ferris, Dina Cannevale, and Linda Baessler, Shatemuc Chapter-DAR. Back row (left to right): Peter Bush and Barbara Berntsen, Friends of Harmony Hall; Shirley Goebel Christie, Shatemuc Chapter-DAR; Andrea Lamantia, Friends of Harmony Hall; Larry Kigler, Historian, Town of Clarkstown. Not pictured: Representatives from the Town of Clarkstown and Tilcon, NY. Photograph by Clare Sheridan.

SOUTH OF THE MOUNTAINS (ISSN 0489-9563) is published quarterly by The Historical Society of Rockland County, 20 Zukor Road, New City, NY 10956; phone, (845) 634-9629; fax, (845) 634-8690; website, www.RocklandHistory.org; email, info@rocklandhistory.org.

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