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Richard Epps, twenty-one years old, and his brother Robert, aged nineteen, started to drive to Nyack from the home of Robert Spears, at Piermont, last night. While crossing the railroad track in ...
If the couple were indeed part of the Underground Railroad, perhaps the station wasn't there but at another site: the historical society says the Hesdras owned three other properties in Nyack.
But Carole Perry, artistic director and curator of Nyack’s Hopper House, where the artist was born and raised, says all signs point heavily to Haverstraw: the railroad’s proximity, Amo Gagan ...
In truth, the railroad in conjunction with California’s highway department, later Caltrans, utilized a couple of plows and cleared a one-lane stretch of road over the 3.8 mile distance to Nyack ...
Nyack hospital teams performed 17 lifesaving ... Fifty years later, buses and railroad crossings are safer, and five young lives have not been forgotten.
Voorhis was active in the development of Nyack and owned and developed property there in the 1870s, when the arrival of the railroad brought a building boom to the area. An 1871 article in the ...