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Orangetown is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located in the southeastern part of the county. It is northwest of New York City, north of New Jersey, east of the town of Ramapo, south of the town of Clarkstown, and west of the Hudson River. The population was 48,655 at the 2020 census. [2]
At a meeting of the Freeholders and inhabitants of Orangetown and Province of New York, on Monday, the fourth day of July, 1774, at the house of Mr. Yoast Mabie in said town, the following resolves were agreed upon and passed, viz: 1st, That we are and ever wish to be, true and loyal subjects to his Majesty George the Third, king of Great Britain.
The Orangetown Resolutions were adopted in 1774 at the home of Yoast Mabie. The Dutch colonial house was built by his brother Casparus Mabie in Tappan. When Great Britain imposed duties on the colonies and closed the port of Boston, local inhabitants passed resolutions calling for a boycott of British imports and exports on Monday, July 4, 1774, two years to the day before the Declaration of ...
The house is on the west side of Blue Hill, 800 feet (240 m) south of its intersection with Sickletown and Convent roads, east of the village of Pearl River.It occupies an 8.3-acre (3.4 ha) lot overlooking Lake Tappan, a reservoir on the Hackensack River shared by New York and New Jersey, across the road.
In the early 1900s, when Jewish people were banned from visiting beaches and certain hotels near New York City, they settled in New York’s Catskills Mountains and built a thriving resorts region ...
It is suburban in nature, with a considerable amount of scenic designated parkland. Rockland County does not border any of the New York City boroughs, but is only 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north of Manhattan at the counties' (New York and Rockland) two respective closest points (Palisades, New York, in Rockland and Inwood Park in Manhattan)
Then-South Nyack officials filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court, claiming the yeshiva used several of the campus buildings despite safety violations and without village permits and ...
The Tappan Zee Bridge connects South Nyack in Rockland County and Tarrytown in Westchester County across the Hudson River in New York State. The original 1955 bridge was replaced in 2017. South Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States.