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Rockland County, New York

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91historic places

—earliest paper

1798formed

338,329pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 91 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Palisades, New City, Piermont.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

52 of 91 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

91 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Andre, Maj. John, Monument	Tappan	Site	2006
Bear Mountain Bridge and Toll House	Stony Point	Structure	1982
Bear Mountain Inn	Bear Mountain	Building	2002
Big House	Palisades	Building	1990
Blauvelt House	New City	Building	1985
Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm	New City	Building	2017
Brick Church Complex	West New Hempstead	Building	1984
Brook Chapel	Hillburn	Building	2010
Brookside	Upper Nyack	Building	2012
Camp Hill School	Pomona	Building	2019
Christ Church	Sparkill	Building	2011
Cliffside	Palisades	Building	1990
Closter Road-Oak Tree Road Historic District	Palisades	District	1990
Concklin, Abner, House	Palisades	Building	1987
Contempora House	New City	Building	2009
De Wint House NHL	Tappan	Building	1966
DeBaun, John A., Mill	Tallman	Building	1993
DePew, Peter, House	New City	Building	2008
Dederer Stone House-Stonehurst	Orangetown	Building	2002
English Church and Schoolhouse	New City	Building	1977
Ferdon, William, House	Piermont	Building	2011
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Nyack	Upper Nyack	Building	1998
First Reformed Church	Piermont	Building	2015
Fraser-Hoyer House	West Haverstraw	Building	1976
Green, John, House	Nyack	Building	2017
Gurnee-Sherwood House	Wesley Hills	Building	2011
Haddock's Hall	Piermont	Building	1991
Haring-Eberle House	Palisades	Building	1990
Homestead	Haverstraw	Building	1983
Hopper, Edward, Birthplace and Boyhood Home	Nyack	Building	2000
Hopson-Swan Estate	Sparkill	District	1992
House at 352 Piermont Avenue	Piermont	Building	2015
Houser-Conklin House	Monsey	Building	2010
JOHN D. MCKEAN (fireboat)	Stony Point	Structure	2023
Kings Daughters Public Library	Haverstraw	Building	1991
Ladentown United Methodist Church	Village of Pomona	Building	2005
Little House	Palisades	Building	1990
M/V COMMANDER	West Haverstraw	Structure	1984
Main School	Hillburn	Building	2015
McCready, Robert W. and Mary F., House	Sloatsburg	Building	2011
McCullers, Carson, House	South Nyack	Building	2006
Mount Moor African-American Cemetery	Clarkstown	Site	1994
Neiderhurst	Palisades	Building	1990
North Main Street School	Spring Valley	Building	2008
Old Sloatsburg Cemetery	Sloatsburg	Site	1999
Onderdonk House	Piermont	Building	2006
Peck, Henry M., House	Haverstraw	Building	2000
Perry, Jacob P., House	Pearl River	Building	2003
Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15	West Nyack	Structure	2001
Piermont Railroad Station	Piermont	Building	2008
Pig Knoll School	Pomona	Building	2019
Poor, Henry Varnum, House	New City	Building	2007
Pousette-Dart, Richard, House and Studio	Suffern	Building	2019
Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens	New City	District	1991
Rockland Print Works	Garnerville	District	2013
Rockland Road Bridge	Village of Piermont	Structure	2005
Rockland Road Bridge Historic District	Piermont	District	2011
Rose, William H., House	Stony Point	Building	1999
Ross-Hand Mansion	South Nyack	Building	1983
Salyer, Edward, House	Pearl River	Building	1986
Salyer, Michael, Stone House	Orangetown	Building	2002
Seaman-Knapp House	Pomona	Building	2012
Seven Oaks Estate	Palisades	Building	1990
Shadowcliff	Upper Nyack	Building	2014
Sloat House	Sloatsburg	Building	1974
Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond	Sloatsburg	Structure	2000
Sloat, Jacob, House	Village of Sloatsburg	Building	2006
Sparkill Creek Drawbridge	Piermont	Structure	1985
St. Paul's Episcopal Church	Spring Valley	Building	2008
St. Paul's United Methodist Church	Nyack	Building	2001
Stevens, H.R., House	New City	Building	2005
Stony Point Battlefield NHL	Stony Point	Site	1966
Stony Point District School No. 4	Stony Point	Building	2012
Stony Point Lighthouse	Stony Point	Structure	1979
Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses	Clarkstown	District	2017
Tappan Historic District	Tappan	District	1990
Tappan Zee Playhouse	Nyack	Building	1983
Terneur-Hutton House	West Nyack	Building	1973
Torne Brook Farm	Ramapo	Building	1988
US Post Office-Haverstraw	Haverstraw	Building	1988
US Post Office-Nyack	Nyack	Building	1989
US Post Office-Pearl River	Pearl River	Building	1988
US Post Office-Spring Valley	Spring Valley	Building	1989
US Post Office-Suffern	Suffern	Building	1989
USCO Church, The	Garnerville	Building	2016
Upper Nyack Firehouse	Upper Nyack	Building	1982
Van Houten's Landing Historic District	Village of Upper Nyack	District	2004
Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle	Suffern	Object	2006
Washington Spring Road-Woods Road Historic District	Palisades	District	1990
Wayside Chapel, Former	Grand View-On-Hudson	Building	2000
West, J. Garner, House	Stony Point	Building	2022

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rockland was formed in 1798 (1798-02-23) from Orange.

ROCKLAND created from ORANGE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Rockland County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,353	8,837	11,975	22,492	27,690	38,298	45,548	74,261	89,276	136,803	259,530	286,753	338,329

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

19 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Airmont Cemetery	41.10221	-74.11916
Blaisdell Cemetery	41.04059	-73.97807
Gethsemane Cemetery	41.14731	-73.91708
Herbert Cemetery	41.29425	-73.99597
High View Cemetery	41.08787	-74.0132
Hillside Cemetery	41.23397	-74.00098
Jones Cemetery	41.22147	-74.04236
June Cemetery	41.29453	-73.99292
Letchworth Village Cemetery	41.21642	-74.04934
Maple Grove Cemetery	41.13647	-74.10292
Mount Moor Cemetery	41.09648	-73.95875
Mount Repose Cemetery	41.19626	-73.97551
Nyack Rural Cemetery	41.0937	-73.94319
Oak Hill Cemetery	41.09676	-73.92958
Rockland Cemetery	41.04155	-73.92692
Saint Catharines Cemetery	41.05728	-73.97158
Saint Johns in the Wilderness Cemetery	41.22306	-74.09376
Saint Peters Cemetery	41.19545	-73.97289
Temple Israel Memorial Park	41.05783	-73.97153

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Doodletown	41.29954	-74.00264

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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