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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village of See also:Rockland See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the See also:town of Orangetown, on the western See also:bank of the See also:Hudson See also:river, about 25 M. See also:north of New York See also:City. Pop. (1890) 4111; (1900) 4275, of whom 583 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 4441; (1910) 4619. Nyack is served by the See also:Northern Railroad of New See also:Jersey (a See also:branch of the See also:Erie), and is connected by See also:ferry with See also:Tarrytown, nearly opposite, on the eastern bank of the Hudson. The New York, See also:Ontario & Western and the See also:West See also:Shore See also:railways pass through West Nyack, a small village about 2 M. west. For about 2 M. above and 3 M. below Nyack the river expands into Tappan Zee or See also:Bay, which is about 3 M. wide immediately opposite the village. The first See also:grant of See also:land within the See also:present limits of Nyack was made by See also:Governor See also:Philip See also:Carteret, of New Jersey, to one Claus See also:Jansen, in 1671, but the permanent See also:settlement apparently See also:dates from about 1700. The adjacent villages of Upper Nyack, pop. (1905) 648, (19ro) 591, and See also:South Nyack, pop. (1910) 2068, See also:form with Nyack practically one community. Nyack was named from a tribe of Algonquian See also:Indians. See See also:David See also:Cole, See also:History of Rockland county, (New York, 1884).

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