#sparkill

[rocklandhistoryblog]

The new episode of Crossroads of Rockland History is streaming now !

Listen here: https://on.soundcloud.com/i8Ld7PBVxZT6SXzH6

Or on any major podcast platform.

An Excerpt from this interview aired originally on Monday, July 15, 2024 9:30 am, on WRCR 1700AM

We turned our attention to the hamlet of Sparkill. Larry Vail of the Sparkill History Project joined host Clare Sheridan to discuss the rich history of this community.

Some topics that were discussed were:

Skunk Hollow

Roads and Railroads

Rockland Cemetery

The Convent and Churches

Hotels

Early Environmental Movement

Oswald Bauer

and others

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Crossroads of Rockland History airs every third Monday of the month on WRCR 1700AM. Afterward, the broadcasts are saved and archived as Podcasts. They can be streamed from RocklandHistory.org or from any major podcast platform.

The Historical Society of Rockland County is a nonprofit educational institution and principal repository for original documents and artifacts relating to Rockland County. Its headquarters are a four-acre site featuring a history museum and the 1832 Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, New York.

[kenjed]

the barn, summer 2022

[minister-erik]

THE END OF FUN (a week of post apocalyptic landscapes) - Composition Friday

© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963

[megaopchet]

Bumblebee and Papa Oppie

🥰🥰🥰🥰☺️🤗

[cyb3rangel1]

i ahve a confession.,,,, please dont see me any different,,,,,

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i really like flavored sparkling. like, blackberry la croix and water loo as a whole. water loo has some really nice flavors

thats my confession hehe

[waffle-cookies]

IM BORED

soooo my other account I forgot the pass word so im gonna just

yeah ive been drawing cookie run whats it to yeah

[thekittyfox2999]

Pure Electric and based on the element...

okay

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here. Elxietry. Electricity and Anxiety combined because... yeah

The speed and special attack stat are highest. Defense is lowest.

Elxietry. The Unstable Pokémon.

This pokemon is in constant motion as it's body is mainly made up of electricity.

Before Elxietry was first caught, many speculated on if it was the ghost of a past scientist.

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

[toxictac]

man im so tired, who knew that bringing over 40 paintings from one place to another could be so tiring

not even that but it took like 4 hours to do so

[najjarco40]

Meatless Eggplant Melanzane

[rocklandhistoryblog]

Image: Paulding Fire Engine Company of Sparkill, ca. 1914. Courtesy of SparkillHistory.org. Please note that South of the Mountains identifies the founders of the Paulding Fire Company as Stephen Haire and Henry Voss (South of the Mountains, vol. 4, no. 2, 1960).

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#FBF News From Yesteryear

August 18, 1923 – 100 YEARS AGO

Excerpt from Nyack Evening Journal

 

SPARKILL’S FIRE CHIEF SAID TO BE OLDEST IN WORLD – STEPHEN HARE’S AGE TO BE REVEALED AT BAY SHORE AUGUST 29 IN FIREMEN’S CONTEST

And now comes the Sparkill Fire Department and announces through its assistant chief, Henry Boss, that it will produce in Chief Stephen Hare the oldest active fire chief in the world at the fireman’s contests to be held at Bay Shore, L.I., August 29.  Hare was of voting age in the Civil War and attained his fire fighting training as a charter member of the New York Fire Department.

Sparkill firemen are willing to wager ten to one that Chief Hare will walk away with the ‘Oldest Active Chief’ contest.  Hare has not missed a fire in southern Rockland County in fifteen years and now has the added responsibility of protecting the new $2,000,000 export plant of the Standard Oil Company which is being built on the river front south of Sparkill.

In 1862, Hare, with George W. Tyson, book publisher, was in the front row of witnesses at the first drawing of names in New York for the Civil War draft army.  Hare’s name was the second drawn, but he was rejected because of “weak lungs” and was told he would not live two years.  

At odds with the world, Steve jumped a sailing vessel for New Orleans and gained twenty-one pounds on the trip.

“Just a trip to sea, no gew-gaws,” he said last night, “an I ain’t been sick since.”

In 1890 the chief joined the Flatbush Fire Department.  In 1895 a paid department was installed there and for two years the volunteer firemen were allowed to work with the “professionals,” during which time Steve learned the latest wrinkles in putting out stubborn fires.

In 1900 he returned to this county and formed a fire company at Piermont.  A few years later he organized the John Paulding Engine Company at Sparkill named after one of the captors of Major Andre.  This was the start of the Sparkill Fire Department, which has known no other chief except Stephen Hare.

Henry Boss said last night that Chief Hare’s age would not be announced until the day of the Bay Shore contest but that the Sparkill vamps defied any village to produce an older active fire chief who attends all fires and can shout louder orders through a silver trumpet.  

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[kami-kun1003]

@beetroot-merchant

If the mane 6 were evil they'd be named Pinkie DIE and DIElight sparkle and flutterDIE and rainbow DIE and rariDIE and Applejeffthekiller

[kenjed]

my home, the barn, summer 2022

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Impressive 1865 brick house in Sparkill, NY, 20 min. north of NYC. 7bds, 5ba, 6,453 sq ft, $1.995m.

Large entrance hall. Looks like they preserved this home- the floors and woodwork are original, but it may have been painted white at some point.

At the end of the hall, pocket doors open to this cute round room.

The sitting room has an original fireplace and the perfect alcove for a piano.

Nice large dining room.

Interesting rustic kitchen may have been remodeled around the 1950s, by the look of the knotty pine. Love the fireplace.

Definitely has a fairy tale railing.

Pretty primary bedroom is big and gets lots of natural light.

Cute smaller bedroom.

Bedroom that's not being used makes a good TV room.

Vintage bath. I love the colors of older tiles.

Isn't this cute? A little foyer w/shelving outside a pink tiled bath.

They're using this large room as a home office.

More bedrooms in the finished attic.

There's a nice little patio on the side of the house.

This little house is a legal rental on the property.

There's also a barn.

The grounds are stunning.

5.76 acre lot

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/65-Rockland-Rd-Sparkill-NY-10976/32394703_zpid/?

[pritong-baboy]

More of my g1 au

Bumblebee was tired, it’s been 4 million years and still nothing of the other Autobots…nothing of Optimus, he was instead stuck with shockwave how for some reason was becoming weirdly sire like, one eyed decepticreep!,Bee didn’t know if he was more angry at shockwave or himself for falling for his stupid tricks…it wasn’t his fault that it got so awfully lonely up here!. When I was about to turn around and go back to my stupid (room)cell I hear a deep scratchy ugly horrendous voice…wait I know that voice! MEGATRON!? Wait if Megatron was alive that mea-

SHOCKWAVE WHATS THAT LITTLE MINIBOT DOING THERE!? He’s my sparkling lord Megatron.SPARKILING? THAT UGLY MINIBOT?!, HEY IM NOT UGLY IM THE CUTES MINIBOT YOU WILL EVER SEE>:(( AND IM NOT YOUR SPARKILING IM FULLY DEVELOPED!, don’t worry my lord he won’t trouble us *shockwave lifts up bumblebee like a wet angry kitten* see? It would be illogically to worry,meanwhile bee looked like unicorn himself with a death stare(that didn’t work at all)….I guess you can keep him just makes sure he doesn’t bite anyone.

(This was longer then expected)

it would be so funny if megatron sees bumblebee and goes "YESSS WE CAN USE HIM AS A BARGAINING CHIP AGAINST THE AUTOBOTS!!!" and shockwave just goes "wait what no."

[sparkles-oflight]

i'd be really happy if I could find those kinds of photos where Bojan is looking at Kris talking and his eyes are sparkiling

[porcelainapparition]

Stonehurst

Sparkill, New York

built in 1865