Introduction
The Alms House - Viola - Pomona
Department of Social Services - Pomona
St. Agatha’s Home for Children - Nanuet
Sisters of Charity Convent - (St Agatha’s Home property) - Nanuet
NY Foundling Hospital - NYC
St. Dominic’s Home - Blauvelt
Motherhouse and Novitiate of the Third Order of St. Dominic - Orangetown
Asylum of Sisters of St. Dominic - Orangetown
St Agnes Convent and Orphanage - Orangetown (Sparkill)
Motherhouse and Novitiate Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary - Orangetown (Sparkill)
St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum - Piermont
House of the Good Shepard - Haverstraw, Stony Point
Home for the Friendless (American Female Guardian Society) - NYC
Woodycrest - Happy Valley - NYC, Bronx, Pomona
Crystal Run Village, Inc. - Pomona
Five Points House of Industry, Happy Valley - NYC - Pomona
The Orphan Trains - NYC
The NY Children’s Aid Society, NYC
Marydell (Novitiate of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine) - Upper Nyack
Christian Herald Camp - Nyack
Lakeside School - Spring Valley
The Edwin Gould Academy - Chestnut Ridge
Letchworth Village - (New York State School for Mental Defectives) - Thiells, Haverstraw Twp
New York State Orthopedic Hospital for Children
Rockland Psychiatric Center (RPC) - Orangeburg
Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center (RCPC) - Orangeburg
Jawonio, Inc - New City
Camp Venture
The Salvation Army Eventide Home (Door of Hope) - Orangetown
The Salvation Army - West Nyack
Jewish Convalescent Home - Orangetown
For Jewish orphans the best site is: http://www.kesh.com/hnoh/welcome.html
The German Masonic Home - Tappan
St. Vincent De Paul Home for Convalescent Women - Suffern
Reed Home for Convalescents - Clarkstown
The Tolstoy Foundation - Valley Cottage
Convent of the Holy Child Jesus - Suffern
Eymard Seminary - Suffern
Sisters of Charity Convent - Haverstraw
Sisters of Charity Convent - Nyack
Camp Bluefields - Blauvelt
Camp Shanks World War II Museum - Orangeburg
Haverstraw Mountain Institute - Haverstraw
Rockland College - Nyack
Rockland County Female Institute - Orangetown
Nyack College - Christian and Missionary Alliance - Nyack
Rockland Junior College - Nyack
St.Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) - Sparkill
Dominican College - Blauvelt
Rockland Community College - Viola/Suffern
The Clarkstown Country Club - Nyack
Fraternal and Social Organizations
  Elks
  I.O.O.F. - Independent Order of Odd Fellows
  Masons - F. & A. M.
  Knights of Columbus
  Military Organizations
    G.A.R. - Grand Army of the Republic
    American Legion of Honor
    American Legion
    Veterans of Foreign Wars
    Veterans Memorial Associations
    Jewish War Veterans
  National/Cultural Organizations
  Miscellaneous

The organizations shown in yellow highlight above are believed to be defunct and no significant information about their histories has been found.  The compiler asks anyone with information on these defunct organizations or additional information or corrections on other organizations to forward the information to the Genealogical Society of Rockland County, or the Webpage Researcher.

Robert L. Protzmann
WebPage Compiler and Researcher
Last edited 16 February 2006 

Introduction

During the middle to late 19^th Century, the major cities of America teemed with immigrants and poor families.  Many families could not care for their children.  In many cases disease produced orphans or half-orphans, especially in the slums and immigrant neighborhoods.  The large number of deaths during the Civil War aggravated the problem even more.  The municipal governments couldn’t or wouldn’t make the effort to alleviate these problems.  Private and religious charities were founded to fill the void. 

As the number of orphans and foundlings continued to grow, it was not possible to care for them in city asylums.  This led to two innovations.  First, city organizations extended their operations to rural counties, such as Rockland, to either give city children fresh air during the hot summers, or to house them in rural settings away from the teeming slums of the city.  Second, orphans were placed on trains and sent to farm families in Upstate NY, or in the Central, Mid-West, and Western states, eventually even in Alaska.  These trains became known as the Orphan Trains.

Since many individuals spent time in Rockland County, or passed through the county on the Orphan Trains, this WebPage is designed as an introduction to the history of the charitable organizations, and their facilities, including children’s and adult homes, and schools where individuals of interest may have lived, gone to school or worked.  An attempt is also made to provide links to further information, especially to sources for further research to assist in locating individual records.  Further information can be obtained by Google-searching for an organization name (enclosed in quote marks) on the Web.  Information on the histories of many other NYC organizations, which do not have Rockland County connections, and are therefore beyond the scope of this survey, can be found in this manner.

The Alms House - Viola (formerly Mechanicsville)

The Alms House (or County Poor House) was established in 1837, at Viola, (then known as Mechanicsville) in the Town of Ramapo, for the poor and destitute (debtors).  It was 7 miles West of New City.  Rockland County had purchased the 47-acre parsonage farm of the Kakiat (West New Hempstead) Dutch Reformed Church (also known as the Brick Church) for use as an Alms House.  There the county originally built a wooden frame house to serve the poor.  The inmates contributed to their upkeep by tending the farm.  In 1883, a brick building was constructed.  The facility included a school for the children.  In 1957, the Alms House was moved to Building “C” at the Pomona Health Center in Summit Park, and the property would become the site of Rockland Community College.  The Alms House was re-named the Rockland County Infirmary and Home.  In 1977, it was removed to Building “A”.  It has been re-named the Summit Park Nursing Care Center. 

The old brick Alms House building remains as an Administration Building (Brucker Hall), used by Rockland Community College.  The farm lands are the campus.  The Poor Cemetery (Potter’s Field) remains on the RCC campus, along with the original Gary Onderdonk Veteran’s Cemetery.

Department Of Social Services - Pomona

 [2005]

The Dr. Robert L. Yeager Health Center

Building L

Sanatorium Road

Pomona, NY  10970-0307

[2005]

Department of Health

Nursing Home

50 Sanatorium Road

Pomona, NY  10970

845-364-2771

Other telephone numbers for Rockland County Government Departments can be found in the County Government pages of the Rockland County Telephone Book.

St Agatha’s Home for Children - Nanuet

Sisters of Charity Convent - Nanuet

[2005]

135 Convent Road

Nanuet, NY  10954

845-623-3462

845-623-3461

www.StAgathaHome.org

The history of St. Agatha’s begins with a small group of devoted Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, who opened The Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity, in Manhattan, to care for babies abandoned in the devastating wake of the Civil War.  On October 11, 1869, on the first night in their small, 4 story, Greenwich Village brownstone, at 17 East 12^th Street, an infant was left on their doorstep.  By January 1, 1870, 123 babies had been delivered into the Sisters' care by families unable to provide for them.  In its first two years they cared for 2,560 infants.  Shortly after its establishment, the Foundling became a refuge not only for abandoned babies but for unwed mothers as well.  An Adoption Department was established to find suitable, permanent homes for children ready for adoption.  In the 1890's they changed their name to New York Foundling Hospital.  Following the example of the Children's Aid Society, the Foundling Asylum placed the children in permanent homes in the West & South, through the “Orphan Trains” which they had established.  They also opened St. Ann 's Maternity Hospital and St. John's Hospital for Sick Children.

In 1958, in order to serve the growing number of dependent and neglected children, a new building was erected on Third Avenue at 68th Street.  During this time, programs were initiated to assist emotionally-disturbed, pre-adolescents and to help children with handicapping conditions achieve their maximum potential. 

The history of the site of St. Agatha’s in Nanuet begins in 1874, with John Reid.  He built a house in Nanuet on property which had been owned by the Demarest family, to care for his sick wife in the country.  After his wife died, his son, a Jesuit Priest, asked him to donate the property to the Sisters of Charity.  It took until 1875 for the Sisters to obtain title to the property and amass the resources to open the facility as an orphan’s home.  St. Agatha’s continued to expand, by the purchase of neighboring properties, until it reached its present size.  In 1884 five Sisters from St. Joseph Home in NY and four little homeless girls, set up housekeeping in the Little Flower House on the present site.  That summer, a small building was erected for a chapel, children's dining room and kitchen. Next, they built a school room, then a dormitory.  One year later, there were 185 children residing at St. Agatha and four additional Sisters were added.  In 1889, five boys arrived from NY Foundling Hospital.  Saint Agatha’s Home provided care for children in a dormitory, and later in cottages.  Before long, there were four hundred children in residence.  In 1977, Saint Agatha’s Home for Children, which had been founded by the Sisters of Charity, merged with the Foundling.  Its services expanded over time to include foster homes and group homes.  Many of these programs were for residents of New York City, Rockland, Westchester, as well as other Upstate counties.

In 2005, it housed 454 Boys, 346 Girls, and 40 Sisters of Charity.  10 Cottages provided family settings on its 47 acres in Nanuet, Rockland Co., NY.  That year, the home had been operating under contract with the City of NY, which decided to place children in smaller, more family-like facilities.  The facility was closed, and the 37-40 acre property, containing school and residential buildings, was put up for sale.  The sale site also included a therapeutic riding center (Children of Promise Stable), the future of which is uncertain.  A small remaining parcel containing a Nun’s residence was not offered for sale.  St. Agatha’s continues to provide care in group homes throughout NYC, Nanuet and neighboring counties. 

 A book on St. Agatha’s Home, “Home Kids, The Story of St. Agatha Home,” has recently been written by Nancy Canfield.  It tells the story of her personal experiences at St. Agatha’s, as well as providing a history of the facility.  Nancy Canfield can be reached at ncanf@san.rr.com.  Profits from the sale of her book go to St. Agatha’s. 

NY Foundling Hospital

[2005]

590 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10011

Tel: 212-633-9300

Fax: 212-886-4048

This society was organized in 1869, by the Sisters of Charity, and began placing out children in 1873.  It was established, in part, because Roman Catholic authorities were upset with the Protestant charities of NY were placing orphans and unwanted children with Protestant families, while many of those children were Catholic, especially Irish.  Orphan Train riders were sent from New York City to western families for adoption, and attempts were made to place children from Catholic backgrounds with Catholic families in Catholic communities.  The largest groups came from the New York Foundling Hospital, and from the Children's Aid Society.

St. Dominic’s Home - Blauvelt   (Asylum of the Sisters of St. Dominic)

[2005]

500 Western Highway
Blauvelt, NY  10913
Director: Judy Kydon
Tel: (845) 359-3400
FAX: (845) 359-4253
E-mail: JudyK@stdominicshome.org

Website: www.stdominicshome.org

http://www.stdominicshome.org/about/history.htm

In November 1878, Sister Mary Ann Sammon and a few Dominican Sisters transported nine little girls under their care in NYC, to a residence in Blauvelt, Rockland County.  They had been living in the poverty and overcrowded conditions of New York City.  

What began as The Roman Catholic Juvenile Asylum, of Blauveltville, was purchased Dec 1878 by the Sisters of St. Dominic, from Joseph Eustace.  It was originally for the care of indigent female children (Green, p. 334).  Today, Mother Mary Sammon's legacy of dedication to the care of children continues through the partnership of more than 800 dedicated nuns and laypersons.  Saint Dominic's hosts more than 40 programs including foster boarding homes, adoption, adolescent residential programs, special needs education, pre-k education, community based services, adolescents emergency shelter and residences for adults with mental illness or developmental disabilities.  Adoption services are also provided.  A Catholic agency, Saint Dominic's cares for individuals in need in various locations throughout the New York metropolitan area, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity, and each child’s religious observance is provided for.

Annually, more than 2,000 children, adolescents, adults and their families are served through the programs of Saint Dominic's. 

Saint Dominic's Home is administered by Sisters of Saint Dominic of Blauvelt, New York and affiliated with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. 

Motherhouse and Novitiate of the Third Order of St. Dominic - Orangetown

 [2005]

Sisters Of Saint Dominic, Blauvelt (St. Dominic’s Convent)
496 Western Highway
Blauvelt, NY  10913
845-359-6000
845-359-5600

 [2005]
Sisters of St. Dominic
23 Western Hwy
Blauvelt, NY  10913
845-359-1842

Organized to preserve the organizational records and ministry records of Sisters of Saint Dominics’.  Research access by appointment only.  Written finding aids - On-site library/archive/research room. 

St Agnes Convent and Orphanage - Sparkill   (St. Agnes Home and School for Boys)

Motherhouse & Novitiate Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary - Dominican Sisters of Sparkill - Sparkill

The Dominican Congregation of Our Lady of the Rosary was founded by Mary Thorpe, Jun 18, 1844.  She was born an Anglican, in London, who arrived in NYC, with her sister, and began ministering to the sick and poor in 1872.  The Congregation becan under the guidance of Alice Thorpe, at St. Joseph Mission House, who became Mother Catharine M. Antoninus.  In 1884, The second Mother Superior, Dominic Dowling purchased the Johnson farm in Sparkill, and the three-story, 19-room farmhouse, that was once a summer hotel. was re-modeled and opened as the St Agnes Home and School for Boys, on Jun 19, 1884.  The property included 30 acres, and 25 boys came from NYC.  By 1889, there were 11 buildings.  In 1895, the Novitiate also moved to Sparkill, and the Convent included a home for girls.  A disastrous fire destroyed all the buildings at Sparkill.  A new fire-proof, brick building was erected and opened on Sep 24, 1902.  St Agnes School opened in 1922, and a Vocational High School opened in 1935, with academic subjects being taught to the residents at Tappan Zee High School.  The sisters of the Congregation have concentrated on teaching and serve in the parishes of St Anthony, Nanuet, St Paul, Congers, St Gregory Barbarigo, Garnerville, Sacred Heart, Suffern and St Catharine, Blauvelt.  In 1954, St Thomas Aquinas College (see below) was opened on the site.  In 1965, Rosary Academy, a secondary school for girls was opened.  When the school closed, it was sold to Camp venture, Inc for Venture’s Day Treatment Center.  The Rockland Campus of Long Island University also occupies part of the site.  In 1984, more of the property on Kings Highway was sold to Camp Venture.  The orphanage had a capacity of about 700 children, supervised by 67 Sisters of St. Dominic.  The St Agnes Home and School was closed in 1977.  The gothic brick home structure was demolished on Oct 25, 1979.  In 1981, Thorpe Village, a senior citizen’s complex was opened on the site.   

St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum - Piermont

In Apr 1884, the Dominican Sisters purchased about 30 acres of farm land and established an Orphan Asylum.  This land was about half a mile from the Sparkill Station.  By Jun of 1884, 50 orphans of both sexes were moved from their asylum in NYC to the site.  This is probably the origin of the present St Agnes Home in Sparkill (see above). 

House of The Good Shepard - Haverstraw, Stony Point

[2005] No listing in telephone book

In 1865, an orphan asylum was founded in Haverstraw by Rev. E. Gay, Jr., Episcopal Minister (Rector) of Trinity Parish, Haverstraw, after he was left in charge of 7 orphans by the death of their parents.  A house at Broadway and Broad Street was used, and Mrs. Sarah A. Waters was engaged to care for the children.  In April 1, 1866, the home was moved to Garnerville, where it remained until 1872, when the Legislature approved a grant of $17,000, and $12,000 in donations enabled the purchase of a property and construction of buildings in Stony Point.  For 5 years it was known as the Parish Home of Trinity Parish.  In 1870, it was incorporated by the NY Legislature as, The House of the Good Shepard, Rockland County, New York.” 

Home For The Friendless - New York, NY                 Woodycrest - Pomona, NY

http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Orphan/Woodycrest.html The history of Woodycrest and the Happy Valley School is long and complex, due to the merger of various children’s aid charitable organizations, which often operated a number of facilities under different names.  These operations would eventually be merged in Rockland County.  The individual histories will be presented below.

Former residents have told of their experiences at Woodycrest:

GradFinder Registration:  www.gradfinder.com/p/grad/register.cgi?sid=30978NY Archdiocese - Genealogy:  http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic/CatholicUS-NewYorkNY.htm#Archdiocese%20of%20New%20York%20%20%28New%20York%29

Timeline:

1896: The Home For The Friendless, 32 E. 30th St; Established in 1849; Home School at 29 E. 29th St.

1900: American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, 29 E. 29th St. and 30 E. 30th St, Manhattan, NYC, NY.

1905 State Census: American Female Guardian Society, NY Co.; Enumerated In the 35th A.D., 37th E.D.

1909: American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, 936 Woody Crest Ave; Adoptive Placements into Christian families for destitute children; operates 12 industrial schools and a summer home at Oceanport, NJ. [Perhaps akin to: 1905: Woodycrest, no address, in Tarrytown NY; a summer home for children from various institutions in New York City; during the winter it serves crippled children]

1921: American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, 936 Woodycrest Ave.; Home for 210 destitute children, committed by the Bureau of Dependent Children; operates five Industrial Schools, in the Bronx and in Harlem with a total of 5,690 pupils; operates Wright Memorial; its Summer Home in Oceanport, NJ

1923 Census: American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, the Bronx, NY; residential care for dependent, white children; operates four Industrial Schools in New York City for the education of poor white children.

1933 Census: American Female Guardian Society, the Bronx, NY; residential care, under private auspices, for 176 dependent, white children, age 4-18.

1935: Same as 1940.

1940: American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, 936 Woodycrest Ave.; Inc. 1849; Congregate care for dependent Protestant children; it's summer home is in Oceanport, NJ

1946: Same name and address as 1954; 125 dependent, Protestant children, age 4-14

1954: Woodycrest Of The American Female Guardian Society And Home For The Friendless, 936 Woodycrest Ave., Bronx; Summer Camp:same as 1965.

1962: Same name and address as 1965; established in 1834; a Protestant institution for 100 normal and problem children from the New York Metropolitan area.  1965: Woody Crest Of The American Female Guardian Society, 936 Woodycrest Ave., The Bronx: residential care for the 100 dependent, Protestant children, age 7-14 and operated Camp Woodycrest at Lake Cohasset in Bear Mountain State Park.

 1977: Woodycrest-Five Points Child Care, (Greer-Woodycrest Children's Services) was headquartered at: 106 E 35th St., Manhattan, 10016, with its home in Pomona, NY.
 

Five Points House Of Industry - Happy Valley - NYC - PomonaThe history of the Five Points House Of Industry begins in NYC with the efforts of the several Protestant groups, including the Ladies Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (founded 1844), which formed the First Union Mission to operate the Five Points Mission, in 1850.  They hired Methodist minister, Louis M. Pease to operate the mission.  In 1851, after a disagreement, Pease left and founded his own Five Points House of Industry.  He was initially supported by the National Temperance Society, but a dispute caused their withdrawal of support.  Rev Gregory Bedell (Episcopal) organized a group of philanthropists to provide support.  Archibald Russell served as its board chairman for 18 years.  The buildings at155, 157 and 159 Worth Street were built in 1856, with a 54 ft front.  A picture can be viewed at http://www.nychinatown.org/history/1800s.html.  The house cared for orphans, trained children and fed local adults.  By 1921, it was operating a Cottage Colony in Pomona, Rockland Co, NY.  In 1933, it was called Happy Valley Farm and later Happy Valley School.  The Happy Valley site included old Victorian homes, that were a combination of old residences of the CONKLIN family (whose remains are still interred on the property) as well as housing that was built for the accommodation of the children.  The children had moved from Five Points, NYC, to Pomona at the end of the 19th century, orphaned by the epidemics that decimated NYC.  In 1973, after the merger with Woodycrest, and the transfer of its children from the Bronx, 13 additional cottages were built in Pomona, and the old Victorian homes were torn down.  Some of the old homes were kept as housing for the staff.  A gymnasium was erected, along with a school, a swimming pool, and other amenities.  Happy Valley, prior to 1972, was a "working farm" and the children were encouraged to maintain the place by way of taking care of the animals and farming.  For later history of the facility see Woodycrest, above.

Note: "FIVE POINTS" is the name of a neighborhood in Manhattan at the Intersection of Baxter, Worth and Cross Streets.
 

The Orphan Trains - NYC to Points North and WestFrom about 1854, some 250,000 homeless children from New York City were placed out to families in upstate New York and the Midwestern states.  They are frequently referred to as the Orphan Train Children or Orphan Train Riders.   The largest source of children sent out of NYC via the Orphan Trains was the NY Foundling Hospital; the second largest source was The New York Children's Aid Society, founded by Charles Loring Brace and others.  Children were sent by many NYC institutions as well as those in other large US cities.  Lists of participating organizations can be found at: http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/or_homes.htm; http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Orphan/Inst.Orphan.Train.html and http://www.orphantrainriders.com/sending11.htmlAssistance in finding information can also be obtained from the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America.  http://www.orphantrainriders.com/othsa11.html.  Contact: Mary Ellen Johnson at mej102339@aol.com.

http://www.orphantrainriders.com/Menu.html http://www.extraordinarystories.org/orphantrain/about_us.html

http://www.orphantrainriders.com/othsa11.html

Tom Riley, a freelance writer/photographer for 2 newspapers and the author of 7 books (fiction and nonfiction) on various subjects has written “Happy Valley School - A History And Remembrance”.  It is the story of the years he spent at Happy Valley.  While he was writing the book on Happy Valley he came across a treasure trove of information all but forgotten in an old barn.  It was about the largest mass migration of children in American history.  Over 250,000 children were transported across America by the Orphan Trains.  This led to Tom's book, “Orphan Trains Riders - A Brief History of the Orphan Train Era (1854-1929); with Entrance Records from the Female Guardian Society’s Home for the Friendless in New York”, which came out of handwritten records.  It has recently been published by LGT Press, and is available from Heritage Books and Willow Bend Books [ISBN 0-7884-3169-2]. 

For a personal story on the Orphan Train, see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neadoptn/sedlacek.html

Information on records can also be found in:Inskeep, Carolee R. The Children's Aid Society of New York: An Index to the Federal, State, and Local Census Records of Its Lodging Houses (1855-1925), Clearfield, Baltimore, MD, 1996.  (FHL book 974.71 J3i; computer number 773504.)  Includes 1855, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (police census), 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, and 1925 censuses.

Inskeep, Carolee R. The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to Its Federal, State and Local Census Records (1870-1925), Clearfield, Baltimore, MD, 1995.  (FHL book 974.71 J48i; computer number 770095.).  Includes 1870, 1880, 1890 (police census), 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, and 1925 censuses.  Alphabetical list of children, sisters, and workers. 
 

The New York Children's Aid Society - NYCAdoption and Foster Home Division150 East 45th StreetNew York, NY 10017Telephone: 212-949-4800Fax: 212-682-8016=20

The New York Children's Aid Society was organized in 1853, by Charles Loring Brace and others.  It was the second largest source of children for the Orphan Trains.

Marydell - Upper Nyack Marydell Novitiate of the Sisters of Our Lady Christian Doctrine - Upper Nyack[2005]
Marydell Faith and Life Center
640 N. Midland Avenue
Nyack, NY  10960
845-358-5399Google: “Marydell Rockland history”
http://www.cpl-arch.com/mdellf_pub.asp

“The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine have operated a camp and retreat center at the foot of majestic Hook Mountain in Upper Nyack since 1926.  Now numbering about forty members, mostly at or near what others would consider retirement age, the Sisters have discontinued their full-time children's camp and have begun renovating their well-worn buildings to serve as a revitalized site for retreats and conferences.  In the first phase, a 1928 Sears Roebuck barn has received structural reinforcement, a wheelchair platform life, accessible toilet rooms, new insulation, new windows, new kitchen equipment, and new finishes.  It continued to provide activity and dining space for up to 100 people, including a unique meeting room under the arched barn roof of natural cedar boards. “One of twelve cabins has also received a prototype upgrade to make it wheelchair accessible and to divide a single space into four double bedrooms. “Among the first users of the renewed buildings are the Sisters themselves when they gather from their far-flung ministries in this and other countries.”

http://sistersrcd.org/marydell_calendar.htmMarion Gurney, founded Marydell, with a simple but challenging vision.  She wanted to assist the Catholic immigrants flocking to NYC at the beginning of the 20th Century. She wanted to provide them with a Catholic atmosphere for the process of acculturation.

Marion Gurney had first offered her services to the Dominican Fathers to help found the first Catholic settlement house in NYC.  St. Rose's Settlement, on East 69th St, was  organizing a normal school for catechists.  This was the beginning from which the Congregation of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine sprang.

A group of Marion’s associates, believing in the importance of living among the people they served, established day care, religious education, visitation, and human services among the many NYC immigrants developed the Madonna House on the Lower East Side of NYC.

Christian Herald Camp - Nyack[1961 - closed]Christian Herald RoadNyack, NYThe Christian Herald traces its roots back to 1878 when Joseph Spurgeon, sailed to NYC to establish an American version of the British weekly, “Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times”.  In 1890, Dr. Louis Klopsch, a German-born entrepreneur bought the magazine which grew to be one of the first global relief organizations in the world.  In 1894, the Christian Herald developed a “Food Fund” to alleviate the suffering of NYC’s poor, especially during the cold winters.  In the Spring, “Food Fund” had money left over, and it was decided to give a summertime outing to poor children so that they could escape the stifling condition of the city in the Summer.  Klopsch arranged to bring children to an estate in Nyack, New York belonging to his friend, the Reverend Lawrence Jewett, formerly pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Piermont, called Mont Lawn (on what is today Christian Herald Road).  The first children arrived from NYC aboard the “Chrystenah” and then by horse-drawn carriage on June 14, 1894.  Klopsch rented the estate for $1/month and Christian Herald purchased the estate after Jewett’s death several years later.  In 1895, Klopsch bought the ailing Bowery Mission, at 14 Bowery.  In 1898, the camp was incorporated as the Christian Herald Children’s Home.  The Christian Herald expanded by establishing orphanages in Asia.  He created a Christian book club, called the “Family Bookshelf.”  In 1925, permanent facilities for the disabled were build and presented to the home by Edwin Gould, the philanthropist.  Buildings were heated to permit use in the Spring and Fall.  Increasing suburbanization began to encroach on the country atmosphere at the Nyack camp.  Christian Herald purchased a 190-acre camp on a hill above the Delaware River in Bushkill in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.  In 1961, Mont Lawn and the Christian Herald Children’s Home moved there.  The Nyack property was sold and in 2005, continues to be used by Camp Ramah, a Jewish organization, as a camping facility.  In 1973, to conserve funds, Christian Herald’s administrative offices to Chappaqua in Westchester Co, NY.  The Christian Herald magazine declined due in part to the competition of the large number of other Christian publications.  After some 3,300 issues, Christian Herald ceased publication with the May-June 1992 issue, with the record of being America's oldest continuously published religious magazine.In May of 1995, Christian Herald and the Bowery Mission became one combined nonprofit corporation,

http://www.bowery.org/reference/history.htm

Lakeside School - Spring ValleyLakeside Family and                 235 N. Main Street      Spring Valley                845-578-6800
Children’s Services
            Auto Shop                    1-9 Roosevelt Ave       Spring Valley                845-356-7828
            Group Home                2C Ridge Avenue         Spring Valley                845-578-6777
            Group Home                57 Roosevelt Ave         Spring Valley                845-578-6776
            NYC Line                                                                                            212-460-5755

http://www.lakesidefamily.org/

E-mail: info@lakesidefamily.org

For additional information, see Edwin Gould Academy.

Edwin Gould Academy - Chestnut Ridge[2005]
Edwin Gould Academy
681 Chestnut Ridge Road
Spring Valley, NY 
845-356-9057

The Edwin Gould Academy was a boarding school for neglected, troubled and abused children, mostly from NYC.  It was founded by the philanthropist, Edwin Gould, son of Jay Gould, the railroad baron and principal owner of the Erie Railroad. 

The Edwin Gould Academy operated as a residential child care facility with a separate public school district, in Spring Valley, NY (later re-named Chestnut Ridge), run by the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children.  The Academy also received public funding and support from other foundations including: The Henry Luce Foundation, the van Ameringen Foundation, the Charles Hayden Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundations and the Moore Foundation.  In addition to education and counseling, the Academy provided support services to its alumni, from academics to counseling, to finding a job or an apartment, helping them make the transition to an independent life.  It has gained impressive results with more than 50% of its high school graduates going on to college. The Academy's success was recently acknowledged when it received the 1998 Innovations of American Government Award sponsored by The Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  However, in recent times, the staff and student injuries were high, graffiti marred the walls, pregnancies became endemic, and academic achievement fell.  As a result, the Edwin Gould Foundation discussed the school's possible termination.  Changes in state philosophy regarding the transfer of troubled children to group homes finally resulted in the closing of the facility.  The last graduating class was in 2005.

2005 addresses -
Edwin Gould Academy 681 Chestnut Ridge Road         Spring Valley    845-356-9057
Edwin Gould Academy                                                                         845-425-6815
Edwin Gould Academy                                                                         845-573-9140
Edwin Gould Academy 300 Rt 45                                 Spring Valley    845-578-5696
Edwin Gould Academy Ramapo UFSD, 300 Rt 45       Spring Valley    845-788-6701
Edwin Gould Academy Ramapo UFSD, 300 Rt 45       Spring Valley    845-573-5000
Edwin Gould Academy Ramapo UFSD, 300 Rt 45       Spring Valley    845-578-5697
Edwin Gould Academy Ramapo UFSD, 681 CRR        Spring Valley    845-573-0015
Google:  "Edwin Gould Academy" for additional information.See also:

http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/awards.html?id=3777
http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Orphan/adopt.orph.html
http://www.familysearch.org/sg/New_York.html
http://www.nyrag.org/info-url2325/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=33685

Letchworth Village - Thiells - Haverstraw Twp

[closed]

A magazine article entitled, “Letchworth Village: The Newest State Institution For The Feeble-minded And Epileptic”, written by Charles S. Little, appeared in the March 2, 1912 issue of The Survey, vol.27, pp.1869-1872. 

Rockland Psychiatric Center (RPC) - Orangeburg[2005]
Rockland Psychiatric Center
Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY  10962
845-359-1000

RPC is a NY state center for care of mental patients, as well as the destitute, indigent and homeless.  It was opened on Jan 21, 1931, as Rockland State Hospital, on the former 600-acre Broadacres Farm.  It included a farm, (operated until 1960) which ranged from 40 to 125 acres, cultivated by the inmates, under supervision.  It included its own nursing school and hospital.  During WW II, it served Camp Shanks as a military hospital.  It had its own cemetery.  The old cemetery can be found behind the golf course.  The current cemetery is located on Blaisdell Road, Orangeburg, just South of W. Orangeburg Road.  It contains the graves of those who died in the facility, and is organized in sections, by religion.  Tombstones are flat, marble stones of the same type used for military veterans.  At the turn of the 21^st Century, RPC is being closed down as patients are released or moved to community group homes, a process which began about 1970.

Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center (RCPC) - Orangeburg [2005]
Rockland Psychiatric Center
Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY  10962
845-359-1000[2005]
599 Convent Road
Orangeburg, NY  10962
845- 359-7400

On the campus of the closed Rockland Psychiatric Center.  For the treatment of emotionally disturbed children.  Created as a separate unit in 1970.  Volunteers work with therapeutic activities or the in-hospital school program.  

Jawonio Inc. - New City [2005]
260 N. Little Tor Road
New City, NY   10956
845-634-4648
http://www.jawonio.org/index.htm

Jawonio was organized in 1947, as the Cerebral Palsy Society of Rockland County, providing outpatient treatment for children with neuromuscular and other similar disabilities.  Two years later, in 1949, the first summer camp program for children with disabilities in Rockland County was founded.  It was expanded to include an overnight program, Camp Jawonio.  Jawonio provides comprehensive medical, clinical, rehabilitative, educational, employment/vocational, case management and community living services to children and adults with physical, developmental and/or emotional disabilities. Their aim is to help consumers reach their optimal levels of functioning by enhancing their health, education and employment opportunities. The goal of all Jawonio programs is to provide a framework which assures opportunities for individuals with disabilities to live as valuable members of the community.  Jawonio is a regional rehabilitative resource for people with disabilities and serves children and adults in Rockland and Westchester Counties in New York and Bergen and Passaic Counties in New Jersey.  The name Jawonio provides focus for their goal - it comes from a local Native American word meaning Independence.  It is an affiliate of the Cerebral Palsy Associations of NYS and a contract agency of Rockland County.

 Camp Venture - Nanuet [2005]
Camp Venture, Inc.
Venture Inn
100 Convent Road
P.O. Box 402
Nanuet, NY  10954
845-624-3862
845-627-2435

http://www.campventure.org/cv/home.nsf/fMission

In 1968, the Exceptional Child Parent-Teacher Association was formed to unite the parents of the retarded and disabled in Rockland County for the purposes of advocacy for their children.  As President of the PTA, Kathleen Lukens began to organize resources from across Rockland Co. to establish a day camp for the county's handicapped youngsters.  In 1969, Camp Venture was launched at Clark Center in the Town of Ramapo with 85 children.  The second year was spent at the Rosary Academy in Sparkill, In 1971, Camp Venture settled in to its present headquarters just north of Letchworth Village in Stony Point.

Camp Venture operates a number of Group Homes, including Venture North, at Letchworth Village; Venture West, at in Monsey; VentureSome in Congers; and a Summer Camp at 58 Oak Colony Road, Stony Point as well as Sparkill.  Camp Venture Engel House is in Nyack.  As Camp Venture, Inc., facilities are operated in Spring Valley, Nanuet, Stony Point and Sparkill.  Telephone numbers and addresses are listed in the telephone book.

The Salvation Army - West NyackThe Salvation Army has a museum at its Eastern Headquarters in West Nyack.  Research access is available by written request and appointment.

[2005]
Director of Heritage Museum and Historical Society
The Salvation Army THQ
440 West Nyack Road
West Nyack, NY  10994

Mailing Address: PO Box C-635
West Nyack, NY 10994-1739
845-620-7348
845-620-7200 main phone
http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use.nsf
http://www.salvationarmy.org/

The Salvation Army maintains an Officer Training Center on Rt 59, Suffern, NY

[2005]
Officer Training Center
201 Lafayette Avenue
Suffern, NY  10901
845-368-7200

The Salvation Army maintains various maternity (Booth Maternity) homes, support and re-habilitation facilities throughout the US.  It will accept birth inquiries about children born in their homes.  See:  http://www.salvationarmy-usaeast.org/find/booth_babies.cfm

It will also accept inquiries about missing persons and will assist with attempts to locate missing persons and re-unite families.  See:  http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use.nsf/vw-sublinks/06B49E479AA1603485256DDC007DEB7B?openDocument

Built in 1908 on Western Highway in Tappan, NY.  In 2004, it was scheduled for demolition, to be replaced by Senior Housing. 

St. Vincent De Paul Home for Convalescent Women - (St. Vincent De Paul Home for Disadvantaged Women) - Suffern

 Not in 2005 telephone book

In 1939, Alexandra Tolstoy founded the Tolstoy Foundation in NYC as a humanitarian organization for the relief of Russian refuges from WW I and the Communist Revolution.  It has since expanded its relief efforts to displaced persons from other wars and political upheavals.  Among the original founders and sponsors were Igor Sikorsky, Serge Rachmaninoff, Tatiana Schaufuss, former Russian Ambassador Boris Bakhmeteff and WWI flying ace Captain Boris Sergievsky.  Former President Herbert Hoover became the first Honorary Chairman in l939 and served in this capacity until his death in l964.

In 1972, the Tolstoy Foundation joined the U.S. Department of State's Refugee Resettlement Program and assisted in the resettlement of refugees from all over the world, including Russian Jews, primarily those in mixed marriages, and Ugandan Asians who were fleeing the regime of General Idi Amin.  By the end of 1975, the Foundation had resettled over 3,000 Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees throughout the continental United States and Hawaii, as well as assisting a further 10,000 Indochinese refugees, mostly Cambodians, after the fall of Laos.  In 1994, the Tolstoy Foundation left State Department's refugee resettlement program, however, it continues its efforts through our offices and representatives throughout the world.

As President of the Tolstoy Foundation for 40 years, Alexandra worked to build public support for international refugee relief efforts and to effect changes in U.S. immigration laws.  Under her leadership, the Foundation assisted more than 500,000 people to escape war and political persecution and to build a new life in America.  The foundation worked to help the new immigrants assimilate quickly into the mainstream of American life, while maintaining their cultural and spiritual heritages.

In 1941, donor made it possible for the Tolstoy Foundation to acquire Reed Farm, a 70-acre parcel of land in Valley Cottage, Rockland Co, NY.  The farm became a resettlement center for over 30,000 refugees sponsored by the Foundation.  If necessary, the elderly could spend their remaining years at the center, with proper care.

Those who could, worked on the farm, as part of their training to become self-sufficient and productive citizens.  Cultural activities were organized and a summer camp, active until 1968, was established for needy children.  The Farm became the Tolstoy Foundation Center and remains the very heart its operations.  Although farming is no longer practiced, the Center continues to provide residential facilities for elderly immigrants (nursing home).  The site includes the St Sergius Russian Orthodox Chapel for the use of the residents.  The main house is also used for private affairs, special meals and as a small bed and breakfast facility.  A library and archive exists on the site.

Alexandra Tolstoy lived at the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, NY, and remained active as the Foundation's President, fundraiser, lecturer, and writer until l976. She died in 1979, age 96.

Eymard Seminary - Suffern 

[2005] not listed in telephone book.

Founded before 1955, the Eymard Seminary trains Brothers for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.  Named for Peter Julian Eymard, the founder from France of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers.

Camp Bluefields - Blauvelt

[closed]

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/fortsA_D/bluefieldsCamp.htm

Camp Bluefields was the pre-World War I, NY National Guard training camp and rifle range.  It was originally built in 1910, on former Blauvelt family property.  By 1913, problems with stray rounds landing in South Nyack caused the National Guard to cease operations.  From 1913-8, it was used by the NY YWCA as a women’s camp.  In 1918, it returned to training use, in preparation for WW I. 

It has long been abandoned and is closed to the public, although its grounds are part of a County Park.  The buildings have been demolished, but concrete walls of the rifle ranges and protective tunnels remain.

Camp Shanks World War II Museum - Orangeburg

[2005]
Rts 303 and 340
Orangeburg, NY  10962

[2005]
Mailing address:
New York Vets of Rockland County
PO Box 9209
Bardonia, NY  10954
845-638-5244
http://www.lowerhudsonconference.org/HKC/Rockland/Historic_Sites/historic_sites.html

Camp Shanks was originally built in 1942, with 2500 buildings on 1300 acres.  1.3 million soldiers departed from Camp Shanks for service in North Africa and Europe in World War II.  The troops were taken by rail to the Piermont Pier where they were transferred to ships for transport to their destinations.  Together with Camp Kilmer, in NJ, it processed nearly 3,000,000 troops for their passage overseas.  Originally they were transported to ships waiting at Manhattan piers or at Hoboken.  Later the overseas ships met them at the Piermont Pier for a direct trip overseas.  The average stay was only 3-4 days.  The troops were entertained by Broadway and Hollywood entertainers in the amphitheater.  Toward the end of the war, the camp became a receiving center for wounded returning troops, who would be treated at the hospital at RPC.  The camp later housed Prisoners of War, many being processed for retun to Germany after the end of the war.  It also served to process returning US troops after VE Day.  Initially, many of the barracks were converted to low income housing for returning GIs.  Many of the GIs attended Columbia University under the GI Bill.  By 1956, most of the property was sold to housing developers.  All that remains today is a single Quonset hut which houses the museum in the former barracks.

Haverstraw Mountain Institute - Haverstraw

[closed]

The Haverstraw Mountain Institute was established in 1852 as a school of “advanced grade.”  Lewis B. Hardcastle purchased a property of George E. De Noyelles and altered and enlarged the dwelling.  He then erected a 2-story school building.  Opened Oct 31, 1853, to supply an advanced education to prepare students for business or college, having both day and boarding students.  The property was eventually sold to Abraham B. Conger, who leased the property in 1861, to Lavalette Wilson, who re-opened the school which had closed in 1860.  It existed in 1884. (Cole’s p. 178).

Rockland College -Nyack

[1894] - closed

Founded in 1878, chartered by the NY state Board of Regents.  It was established in the old building of Christopher Rutherford, which had housed the Military Academy.  It was founded by W. H. Bannister, A.M. and existed for 16 years in the Village of Nyack.

The Rockland County Female Institute opened Aug 28, 1856, with Rev. B. Van Zandt as the Principal.  It was located on a 10-acre plot on the banks of the Hudson River in Nyack.  It could board 100 students.  It had been endowed by the estate of Simon V. Sickels, of Nyack who left it $25,000 toward the erection of its building.  After financial difficulties it closed and the site became a summer boarding resort known as the Tappan Zee House. 

[2005]
1 South Boulevard
Nyack, NY  10960
845-358-1710
E-mail: admissions@nyack.edu
http://www.nyackcollege.edu/2005.php?page=NyackMission

Nyack College is a Christian liberal arts college founded and run by the Christian and Missionary Alliance.  The founder was Dr. A.B. Simpson, a missionary who resigned a prestigious New York City pastorate to develop the interdenominational fellowship devoted to serving un-reached people, which would become known as the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

An early step was the founding of the Missionary Training Institute, the first Bible college in North America.  This school, begun in 1882, in NYC, was the forerunner of Nyack College.

 Nyack College is a fully accredited liberal arts college.  Graduate programs are offered through Alliance Theological Seminary.

St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) - Sparkill

[2005]
125 Route 340
Sparkill NY  10976-1050
845-398-4100
http://www.stac.edu/
http://www.stac.edu/staglanc.htm

St Thomas Aquinas was established in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, as a 3-year teacher training institution on a 47-acre campus, for the teaching of nuns of the Dominican Order.  It later opened to nuns of other orders and lay women.  In the 1967 it became co-ed and expanded its curriculum.  It is now a 4-year liberal arts college for men and women, offering 31 Bachelor’s degrees and 3 Master’s degrees as well as 2 Associate’s degrees and certificate programs.  It offers MS Degrees in Education and has a graduate program in Special Education.  In 1994, a MBA Program was approved.

Dominican College - Blauvelt

[2005]
470 Western Highway
Orangeburg, NY  10962
845-359-7800

Dominican College was established in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt as a 3-year liberal arts college offering teacher training for women of religious persuasion.  In 1957, it opened to lay students.  In 1959, it petitioned the Regents for permission to offer BA and BS degrees in Education as well as programs in English and History.  It also offers a program leading to the certification of teachers in Special Education.  It has continued to expand its curriculum, including a 4-year BS program in Nursing.  It is now a 4-year and Master’s level liberal arts college for men and women, chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of NY. 

http://www.dc.edu/history.html

Founded in 1959, the site of Rockland Community College was originally the farm of the New Hempstead Dutch Reformed Church (the Kakiat or Brick Church).  It was later purchased by Rockland County as the site for an Alms House for destitute residents.  It contained 26.5 acres of cabbage and tomato fields, apple orchards, a pumpkin patch, and a grape arbor, in the pastoral hamlet of what was then called Viola.  The old brick Alms House building was re-furbished and remains today as the administration building.  The farm property houses academic buildings and athletic facilities.

The resolution to found the college was approved on Apr 28, 1959, by the Rockland Co Board of Supervisors, in a 3-2 vote.  Two weeks later, the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York in Albany granted approval of the plan, thereby making Rockland the 18^th community college in NY state.  The college would open in September, 1959.  The re-furbished 3-story brick Alms House building originally served as both the administrative building and the main academic building.  The first year brought 139 students, 119 full-time and 20 part-time.  The old farm site was enlarged to 175 acres by purchase of 100 acres of the Hurschle Brothers Farm and 50 acres of the Springsteen farm. 

The old Alms House Cemetery (Potter’s Field, or the Poor cemetery) and the Gary Onderdonk Veteran’s Cemetery remain within the grounds of the College.
 

The Clarkstown Country Club - Nyack

The Clarkstown Country Club stood on South Mountain, at Nyack, overlooking the Hackensack Valley, located on Highland Avenue and Broadway, on a 160-acre plot.  It began in 1918 and expanded to 34 buildings.  It was supported by the widowed daughter-in-law of Cornelius Vanderbilt.  It included a zoo (closed in 1940), with elephants and survived until the 1950s.  It operated more as a commune than a modern country club, teaching yoga and Eastern philosophies.  It was run by a “spiritualist’ known as Dr. Pierre Bernard.  Many of the buildings remain today as part of Nyack College.

Fraternal Organizations http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/chronology_fraternal_organizations_america.htm http://www.obitcentral.com/cemsearch/initials.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcaddo/tombston.htm

[Defunct Organizations or Chapters  shown in Italics]

Elks http://www.elks.org/ http://www.salisburyelks.org/Elks%20history/NewYork/nypics.htm (postcards of NY BPOE)

Elks Lodge, BPOE No 877
62 Elks Drive
Haverstraw, NY  10927
845-429-9851

Pearl River Elks 2041
2041 Elks Drive
Nanuet, NY  10954
845-623-2041

Tappan Zee Lodge No. 79
74-76 N Main St
Spring Valley, NY  10977
845-352-2618

Oneko Lodge, No. 122, I.O.O.F. - Nyack
Established 1848, as Lodge 346, existed in 1884.
Meetings were held in a room over a carpenter’s shop on Burd St, Nyack, and later in the in the Lodge Rooms of the Commercial Building

Rockland Encampment, No. 37, I.O.O.F - Nyack
Established 1867, existed in 1884
Met in the Masonic Hall, Nyack

Ruth Rebekah Degree, No. 4, I.O.O.F. - Nyack
Established 1869, existed in 1884.
Meetings held in the Masonic Hall

Piermont Lodge, No. 83, I.O.O.F.
Established 1843, existed in 1884.
Met in the Odd Fellows Hall.

Industry Encampment, No. 103, I.O.O.F - Suffern
Established 1883, existed in 1884.

Amity Lodge, No. 192, I.O.O.F. - Spring Valley
Established 1867, existed in 1884.

Masons

George Washington Headquarters
20 Livingston Ave
Tappan, NY  10983
845-359-1359
http://www.rockland.org/details.cfm?CAT=9&SS=0&listingID=50

Masonic Temple, Naurashank Lodge No. 589
N. Middletown Road
Pearl River, NY  10965
845-735-4336

Rockland Lodge, No. 723, F & A M - Nyack
Established 1872, chartered 1873, existed in 1884.
Met in the Lodge Rooms of the Commercial Building

Waywayanda Lodge, No. 315, F & A M - Piermont
Established 1853, existed in 1884
Met in the Masonic Hall

Stony Point Lodge, No. 313, F & A M (Free Masons) - Haverstraw
Established in 1853; existed in 1884.

Ramapo Lodge, No. 589, F & A M - Suffern
Established 1865, exited in 1884

American Legion of Honor
Nyack Council, No. 248, American Legion of Honor
Established 1880, existed 1884
Meetings held in the building of the John Hancock Post

American Legion of Honor, Rockland Council, No. 491 - Piermont
Established 1881, existed in 1884

Ramapo Council, 436, A. L. of H.[American Legion of Honor] - Suffern
Established 1880, existed in 1884.

American Legion

American Legion, James H. Anderson Post
1199 Hunt Road
Orangeburg, NY  10962
845-359-0082

American Legion
Rt 45
Pomona, NY  10970
845-354-9785

American Legion Post 1044
620 Rt 340
Sparkill, NY  10976
845-365-4586

Fred Eller American Legion Post 1447
Saddle River Road
Monsey, NY  10952
845-352-0330

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Ramapo Valley VFW Post No. 2973
16 Ramapo AvenueSuffern, NY  10901
845-357-1019

Ancient Order of Hibernians - Haverstraw
Established in 1882; existed in 1884.

Sons of Italy in America
E Village Road
Tuxedo, NY 
845-351-4588
http://www.osia.org/

Portuguese-American Community Center
110 N Main St
Spring Valley, NY  10977
845-356-3177

Ukranian Hall Association
16 Twin Avenue
Spring Valley, NY  10977
845-35-4359

Miscellaneous

Rockland Chapter, No. 204, R.A.M.[Royal Arch Masons] -Piermont
Established 1867. existed in 1884
http://www.yorkrite.com/chapter/ram/spring2005p16.html

Iona Lodge, No. 128, Knights of Pythias - Haverstraw
Established in 1874; existed in 1884.
http://www.pythias.org/index.htm

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