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The Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd., New City, New York 10956 in MEMORIAM Esther M published by The Historical Society of Rockland County 20 Zukor Rd., New City, New York 10956 IN MEMORIAM Esther M. Churchill Ethel Haubner William B. Page BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE Esther M. Churchill Norman Insley Ethel Haubner William B. Page The name of Miss Ethel C. Storms will be the first inscribed on the Bene­ factors plaque to be placed in the entrance lobby of the museum building at the county history center. This Benefactors classification, established recently by the society's board of trustees, will include those who donate $5,000 or more to either the Museum Fund or the Endowment Fund and have not specifically sponsored a room or other area in the building. Most recent among patrons who are contributing $1,000 or more to the Museum Fund are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Higgins, Miss Ruth Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Stoner, Dexter Press, Orange & Rockland Utilities and Provident Savings & Loan. Loan. Regular society events, such as Yankee Peddler Day, Homelands Day and the fall open house were well attended, very successful affairs. Details of these special days will be reported in the annual slide lecture as well as in the report of society activities at the annual meeting. In early September the accessions stored above the office in the Jacob Blauvelt House were relocated in the designated storage-preparation room on the main floor of the museum building. By mid-October the society had a total of 2,385 active members (those who had paid their 1976 and/or 1977 dues). The grounds at the county history center are rapidly being transformed as grading is completed, walkways and parking lot installed, lawns showing green of sprouting seed. With the cooler temperatures of autumn, the heating system in the museum building is being tested. Membership in the historical society is open to everyone. Dues of $5. a year ($1. for students) keep you informed of activities of the society, provide you with the society’s quarterly and stimulate your sense of history, especially on the local level. COVER PICTURE: When Valerie Meyer was working on the illustrations for Peg McCabe’s VIGNETTES, she asked her husband, Thomas, to sketch an authentic World War I railway observation car as he is the family’s true railroad buff. Unable to squeeze it into the story proper, we’ve used it as a cover picture because it ties in so well with Dan deNoyelles railroad story and with Stan Mil­ ler’s centerspread as well as helping to evoke an era that for many of us is slipping in the mists of time. (r)1976 by The Historical Society of Rockland County Acting Editor: Mariruth Campbell Printed by Executive Editor: John R. Zehner PRINT SPRINT This glass-negative print of the Long Clove (background: center) shows much of the "battle area” and the land where the switchbank railbed later rose to the Clove and then dropped to the Riverside Avenue terminus in three large loops. RAILROAD WARFARE AT HAVERSTRAW by Daniel DeNoyelles Excitement was at such a feverish pitch in the early winter of 1880 some Haverstraw folk reached for their guns. That was the time the Jersey City & Albany line's gandy dancers.came to town to lay rails near the Long Clove. The depot, on what is now Riverside Avenue, was to be the railroad’s northern terminus. But as the rail laying approached Haverstraw, everybody took sides for or against this modern mode of travel—modern in 1880, that is. Would it be an asset or a detriment to the growth of the village? That was on everyone’s mind. The inhabitants were firmly bound to the prosperity of brickmaking and navigation on the Hudson River. So, who needed the railroad? These questions started fiery agitation and rabid oratory. An added sense of drama was given when the New York City daily newspapers devoted many columns to the "rioting, bloody noses and broken limbs” sustained by the vil­ lagers and the rail crews. Some of those involved claimed the New York papers were nothing but yellow journals. This was done to calm the populace and to stop exaggerations. It was true that serious trouble was brewing. It was also true that most of the villagers sided with the landowners who held the property in the southern limits of Haverstraw. The landowners vs. the Jersey City & Albany Railroad Company of the States of New York and New Jersey were adversaries, drawn into lines of battle as each claimed the other a tres­ passer. John L. DeNoyelles and Daniel, his brother, (Nos. ‘54 and 36 in the DeNoyelles genealogy published in 1971) with their extensive holdings, were 3 the largest and most influential property owners in the contested area. Floreni Verdin, a wealthy New City farmer, had saved most of the clay lands for the two brothers after Denton Fowler, a rival brickmaker, had demanded payment on notes issued in 1876 which the brothers could not meet. Mr. Verdin ad­ vanced enough money to buy the properties at a sheriff’s sale and took a mort­ gage as security and the DeNoyelleses lost only one valuable brickyard to the Fowler family. This, incidentally, started a low-key feud, which lasted through two generations. The struggle began on Monday morning, January 26, 1880. The railroad attempted to occupy the land and their convoy of equipment was speedily ejected to a nearby highway by the townsmen. The railroad’s attorney had an injunction served on the property holders, restraining them from interfering with the progress of the line. The property owners also obtained an injunction, restraining the railroad from building any farther. This judicial order was served on the railroad before nightfall that same day and the villagers slept a fitful, apprehensive slumber—a calm before the storm! To understand fully the tense situation, the reader should realize it was necessary for the Jersey City & Albany to obtain the right-of-way through Haverstraw for successful operation of the line. The engineer’s plan was, after the tracks came through the mountain at the Long Clove, the road bed would be lowered to the river bank in three giant switchbacks almost one mile each in length. This rail design would end at the depot, just north of the present Jackson-Ashby home on Riverside Avenue on the property of the Haverstraw Transit Company. As early as 1874, Delos F. Culver, acting for the railroad, bought 120 acres of land in the southern limits of the village for $55,000. Of this amount $5,000 was paid in cash and the remainder was to have been paid in install­ ments up to $35,000. After this a deed for the entire acreage was to be given and the rest secured by a bond and mortgage. Mr. Culver claimed to have paid the $15,000, and under the contract was entitled to receive a deed for part of the property described in the contract. However, when it was time to draw the deed, it was discovered to include a much larger area than described in the contract. Pending further discussion with the DeNoyelles brothers and Mr. Verdin, the railroad company sold out and Mr. Culver became the purchaser as agent for the former company. The Saturday before the ties and rails were brought to Haverstraw, the owners of the land in question (the DeNoyelles brothers and Mr. Verdin) heard the railroad was speedily preparing to lay rails over their land on a road bed graded in 1874 under an old contract. The very next morning, Clarence R. Conger, attorney and a director of the railroad, with William W. Miller, chief engineer, Herbert Conger, brother of the lawyer, and several others, settled on the disputed land. They meant to stay. They opened a tent, pitched it and under buffalo robes lay down to claim all rights of actual possession. That ignited the dormant resentment of the villagers and the landowners. A few hours later, Daniel DeNoyelles appeared on the contested land and ordered the trespassers off. They declined to go. A crowd of citizens, who had trekked to the spot after rumors of a fight spread through Haverstraw, was on 4 hand. It was evident the railroad was going to take forcible possession of the contested tract and it looked very likely there would be a battle royal. Every­ body wanted a piece of the action ! Mr. Conger contended that as attorney he was simply occupying his client’s land. The angry crowd, stirred up by his argument, attacked the up­ right tent. Some who saw the action said that when the crowd surged forward it took very little egging on by the DeNoyelles brothers to create the havoc of overturning the tent with the other men in it. Mr. Conger and a friend decided to stay put and sat down on the demolished tent. DeNoyelles then took hold of Mr. Conger’s waist and bodily lifted him up to toss him off the land. At this point Conger reached behind him to draw his pistol. DeNoyelles, now in a fighting mood, put his hand to his pocket and exclaimed, "There will be plenty of gunplay if you want that!” "No,” said Conger, "I am drawing mine to throw it away.” He tossed it aside in the brush. This action temporarily calmed the rancor of the crowd. Just then the attorney for the landowners, George W. Weiant, arrived. Both lawyers bel­ lowed the other was trespassing. Weiant directed the fallen tent be carried away.
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