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Valley Cottage
New York (NY), 10989
Valley Cottage is a hamlet in Rockland County, New York, United States located in the eastern part of the Town of Clarkstown. The population was 9,269 at the 2000 census.
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Landmarks & Places of Interest Valley Cottage, NY:
- Rockland Lake State Park
- Knickerbocker Ice Company - established 1831. Rockland Lake was known to have had the cleanist and purest ice in the area. Knickerbocker's Ice House No. 3, located at Rockland Lake, could store more than 40,000 tons of ice harvested from the lake. The wooden storehouse's walls were insulated with sawdust to keep the ice blocks frozen until they were shipped in the summer. By 1834, the company owned a dozen steamboats, 75 ice barges and employed about 3,000 to ship ice countrywide. The stored ice was placed on inclined railroad cars, transported down the mountainside, placed on barges on the Hudson River and shipped to New York City. So much ice was shipped that Rockland Lake became known as the "Icehouse of New York City". Knickerbocker burned down in 1926. Knickerbocker's Ice House No. 3 in currently a Clarkstown town historic site. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage recently pledged to help preserve the remaining walls. Only those walls and some scattered foundations from other icehouses remain. John Hanchar, a Clarkstown police officer whose family has deep roots in the hamlet, recently donated money for new markers at this site.
- Knickerbocker Fire House - established 1862.
- Rockland Lake Community was a thriving community made up of the many workers at the Knickerbocker Ice Company.
- Josephine Hudson House belonged to the first woman to work in the knickerbocker Ice Company. Money is currently being raised to preserve the house.
- Tolstoy Foundation of Valley Cottage, founded in 1939 by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy.
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