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South Oh the Iflfjountaind South oh the Iflfjountaind published by The Historical Society of Rockland County Orangeburg, New York Vol. 18, No. 4 October-December 1974 —photo by Anne Mellett A miniature of the DeWint House (Washington’s Headquarters), Tappan, is held in the hand of the artist who recreated it in his own modern version of Early American poker art, discussed on pages eight and nine. IN MEMORIAM Norman Hastings G. Prescott Fuller Laura Heminover Blauvelt LIFE MEMBERS Royal W. Taplin Joseph J. McCormick, Jr. MUSEUM FUND Mr. and Mrs. J. Sherwood Smith of West Nyack have given the society $3,000 as sponsors for the kitchenette in the New City Center museum building. PICTURE CREDITS The Immermann-Dector photo in Vol. 18, No. 3 was by Michael Helper of Pearl River. The Brady photographs illustrating "Reconnaisance Baloons” (Vol. 18, No. 3) were from an album of 18 reprints lent the society by Mrs. William C. Swanson of North Tarrytown, Rockland-born granddaughter of diarist Henry Martyn Wood. Selected from the ten-volume "Photograph History of the Civil War”, published by Review of Review Company, New York, they were issued for the 1911 semi-centennial celebration of the war. The nega­ tives, made by order of President Lincoln, had been in an obscure file for almost 50 years and were discovered just prior to publication. AVID HISTORIAN This quarter we are indebted to Daniel deNoyelles, for many years senior historian-of the society, for two articles: his Rockland Historical Societies and part two of his Vivid Memories of World War I (see Vol. 18, No. 2 for part one). Mr. deNoyelles received an accolade from the Society for Industrial Archeology in that society’s July 1974 NEWSLETTER for his reprinting of an indexed and expanded The Story of Brick by Charles Ellery Hall, 1905. Said the NEWSLETTER, "Excellent account of the technology of the industry in the Hudson Valley, well illustrated with photos of machinery, yards, kilns, clay pits, company towns, etc. A valued addition to the precious little docu­ mentation of an important industry.” The industrial archeological society is a unit for the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. ©1974 by The Historical Society of Rockland County Acting Editor: Mariruth Campbell Printed by Executive Editor: John R. Zehner PRINT SPRINT 2 ENTERPRISES’S FLAG FLOWN AT NEW CITY (photos, except flag, by William Rothschild) William H. Hand of South Nyack, Harry Aviron of Lipsett, Inc. (demo- lishion contractors) and society presi­ dent John R. Zehner of Nyack gaze through time and space to see a battle flag of the carrier Enterprise flying above the Jacob Blauvelt Homestead, New City, on the day ground was broken for the new museum building. The flag was given Hand and Zehner for the historical society when demoli­ tion work started some years ago in New York. Mr. Hand, who served as one of the vice presidents of the Tap- pan Zee Historical Society, is on the committee responsible for room plaques throughout the museum. According to E. M. Eller, Rear Ad­ miral, USN (retired), director of naval history, Department of the Navy, our flag was "associated with one of the most gallant ships in U.S. Naval history (and) must indeed be considered a prize possession.” 3 ROCKLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY by Daniel deNoyelles If the proper study of mankind is man, then the proper study of a nation is its history. And all true patriots should encourage, in every way, the associ­ ations which record the great deeds and failures alike of the forefathers of our people. This sentiment of President Theodore Roosevelt has over the years been the guiding spirit of all our historical societies. Many of our citizens—men and women, young and old—have been and still are concerned with the preservation of Rockland County’s historic heritage. Though local historical societies have commenced with a great burst of enthusiasm only to have their ardor cooled with the passing years and finally expire, nowadays, with Rockland’s booming population, it seems interest in our past is growing steadily and historical societies with some degree of perma- nance are flourishing. There are societies at Tappan, Spring Valley and Pier- mont. There is also a North Rockland group which tried to engender in its citizens an enthusiasm for our county’s history. Then there are designated tracts of land at Tappan, at West Nyack, and one contemplated for Stony Point, which control the upkeep and preservation of certain regions of historical significance. But all told, the Historical Society of Rockland County, with its recent purchase of land and a magnificent house, re-construction in 1834 from local brick on the foundation of red sandstone from an earlier dwelling on the Street in New City, is by far the largest and most comprehensive of all. This society is the result of a consolidation of the Rockland County Society and the Tappan Zee Historical Society on September 1, 1965. It is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York as a non­ profit educational corporation to be guided by a board of 27 trustees elected by the membership from all sections of the county and from several states. The Reverend David Cole in his "History of Rockland County” published in 1884 listed the aims of an early society, an ideal still valid today: "Some generations ago, a few Rockland County citizens began to consider the ques­ tion of preserving for future generations the story of the origin, progress, and vicissitudes of its beginnings ’ere that story should have become altogether legendary”. Our present society is endeavoring to acquaint residents with the county’s heritage so that knowledge and interest will sustain a broader understanding of our state and national history. Thus the aims of the Historical Society of Rockland County are all-inclusive with two concrete long-range purposes of establishing a modern fireproof museum building and of publishing an up-to- date history of the county. A temporary museum at Orangeburg opened in 1958, when Irving Maid- man of Upper Nyack, lent an 18th century, red sandstone house as the society’s headquarters. Displays were co-ordinated by Richard J. Koke, museum curator of the New-York Historical Society, and by Robert G. Wheeler, former director of research, Sleepy Hollow Restorations. Volunteer guides were at the museum every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon. 4 With the purchase of the Jacob Blauvelt Homestead in New City, the historical society owns for the first time a headquarters building and a parcel of land. Title was secured December 11, 1970. The original title to this prop­ erty is much older, of course, going back to pre-Revolutionary days with deeds dating to land grants to John Blauvelt by King George II and again in the 1760’s by King George III. Eleven generations of Blauvelts lived on this property, part of the Kakiat Patent that stretched into the present townships of Ramapo, Clarkstown and Orangetown. The road serving the site was always called The Street and wound through the farms along the base of the moun­ tains, through the hamlet of Centenary, up over the defile called Short Clove to form a highway to the village of Haverstraw with its docks to accommodate shipping produce of central Rockland’s farms. It is probable the house on the property was constructed of Haverstraw brick, which might have been hauled by oxen over the Short Clove to The Street, for by 1834 the brick industry in the vicinity was booming. One of the earliest attempts to preserve local history was made by the West Shore Historical Society launched, according to the columns of the Rock­ land County Journal of Nyack, November 27, 1869. A collection of noted Nyack citizens held an annual meeting December 7th for the election of officers and selected John Eadie as president. The society, however, was short­ lived. It expired in 1871. The organization of the Historical Society of Rockland County, N.Y., took place February 29, 1878 at South Nyack’s Rockland Female Institute, a build­ ing later housing the Nyack Club. The first officers were: President Hon. John W. Ferdon; Vice-presidents Hon. A. E. Suffern, Albert Wells, Joseph Snider, Dr. W. Govan and Cyrus M. Crum; Corresponding Secretary W. S. Gilman; Recording Secretary Henry Whittemore; Treasurer Garret VanNostrand; Direc­ tors Dr. C. R. Agnew, John Salisbury, C. W. Miller and Walter T. Searing. These were all eminent citizens and historians of the Town of Clarkstown. Three weeks after the formation (March 23, 1878) the association’s name was changed to the Historical and Forestry Society of Rockland County. To raise funds this new historical society held a series of lectures and entertainments. Some of the first costs were to be defrayed by an exhibition of historical relics. Part of the fund so obtained was for "purchase an old farm­ house at Tappan which had such an illustrious role in Revolutionary history’’. Beyond doubt this was the DeWint House, which rightfully could be called the De Clark or De Klerck House since it had been built in 1700 by Daniel De Klerck, born in Zeeland, Holland c. 1673 and died at Tappan c. 1730. Society members made an aggressive effort for the passage of a law in 1878 whereby the property would be purchased by the State of New York. An act for this purchase was actually passed, but vetoed by Governor Lucius Robinson. It might be said in justification of the veto that Robinson’s tenure in office followed that of Governor Samuel J.
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