Valley Cottage travel guide

Valley Cottage is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) 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.
Valley Cottage Elementary School
Liberty Elementary School</b>
Blue Ribbon Award - Winner (2000- 2001), Semi-finalists (2004)
New York State winner of International Reading Award
ING Unsung Heroes Award (2004) - Karne Andreasen’s “Turn on to Reading” program.
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. Knickerbocker burned down in 1926. Knickerbocker's Ice House No. 3 in currently a Clarkstown town historic site.
Knickerbocker Fire House - Established 1862.
, founded In 1939 by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy. (...) more....

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