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==Tourism== ===Historical markers=== {{div col start}} * 1700 [[DeWint House]], Oak Tree Road and Livingston Avenue * [[Major John Andre Monument]], Old Tappan Road and 42 André Hill Road * General Lafayette, Western Highway and Christine Lane * Hickory Hill Cooperative, Hickory Hill and Old Tappan roads * The First Court House, Tappan Green * Trial of André, 32 Old Tappan Road * Washington's Camp, Western Highway and Christine Lane {{div col end}} ===Landmarks and places of interest=== [[File:JohnAndreMemorial 2007 02.jpg|thumb|Major John André's Memorial]] [[File:DeWint House Tappan.JPG|thumb|[[DeWint House]]]] [[File:The Old '76 House - information signs.jpg|thumb|The Old '76 House, established 1755 – '76 House, where Major John André was confined]] [[File:De Windt House, Livingston Avenue and Oak Tree Road, Tappan, Rockland County, NY HABS NY,44-TAP,2-13.tif|thumb|Inside DeWint House]] [[File:The Manse Tappan NY.JPG|thumb|The Manse]] * André Monument – André Hill, south of Old Tappan Road, {{convert|0.2|mi}} west of railroad crossing – Marks the reported site of the execution of Major John André, hanged for espionage. ([[National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockland County, New York|NRHP]]) * The academy. Built in 1843 as a private school on land leased by the church. * Bartow-Samett Town House – Built in 1835 by Morris Bartow. Adjacent to The Old 76 House. Probable site of Yost Mabie's house where the [[Orangetown Resolutions]] were signed in 1774. * Bogert-Haring House – Late eighteenth century sandstone house which was home to nine generations of Bogerts and Harings. * [[Burton Store]] – Tappan's former general store. * Cardona House – First Rockland County schoolhouse. Built of stone and brick in 1711 on church land and used as a school until 1860. * 1700 [[DeWint House|DeClark-DeWint House]] – 20 Livingston Street – Built in 1700, oldest house in Rockland County. To the northwest and northeast of the front entrance of the 1700 DeWint house are the carriage house and a stone mill. At the rear of house stand seven initialed headstones which came from a nearby property. It is believed these headstones marked where the slaves of that home were buried.(NRHP) Threatened with demolition in 1932, the house and grounds were purchased and preserved by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, as a National Historic Site and a memorial to George Washington (who was himself a lifelong Mason).<ref>{{cite web|title=DeWint House: Masonic Historic Site in Tappan, New York|url=http://dewinthouse.com/history}}</ref> Since 1984, in the month of September The Tappantown Historical Society has held Colonial Day featuring Colonial Army re-enactors and Encampment Soldiers. Tour of the DeWint house include ladies and gentlemen in colonial attire preparing for winter. The Carriage House Museum houses local artifacts. On the Dewint House Grounds people in colonial attire demonstrate [[Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies#Alcohol|apple pressing]], [[Churning (butter)|buttermaking]], [[Sheep shearing]], [[blacksmith]] and [[Cooper (profession)|cooper]], [[Spinning wheel|spinning]] and other events showing how colonial ancestors lived. * Haring-Adams House – Built in 1790. Cereo, first baby food, was manufactured by Macy Deming at this location. <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Tappan Manse 1905.jpeg|thumb|Manse circa 1905]] --> * The Manse – Kings Highway & 28 Old Tappan Road – Built of stone in 1726 on land donated by five of the surviving 16 original Tappan patentees, Daniel deClerk, Peter Haring, Johannes Blauvelt, Lambert Smith and Cosyn Haring, the Manse is considered to be the oldest [[parsonage]] in continuous use in the United States. Architecture is typical Hudson Valley Dutch colonial, ornamentation on exterior being added later. Restructured 1788; frame wing added about 1830. There is a historical marker at this site. Reverend Samuel Verbryck, friend of George Washington and a founder of [[Rutgers University]], resided here. * Mabie-Beech House – Built in 1835 by Cornelius Mabie. * [[The Old 76 House]] (Mabie's House)- 110 Main Street. Tavern since the 18th century. * [[Reformed Church of Tappan]] – Kings Highway, 32 Old Tappan Road – Organized as Low Dutch Christian Reformed Church of Tappan 1694, it is the oldest congregation in Rockland County. The present church (third) was built in 1835. The second church, enlarged in 1788, was the scene of Major John André's trial. The church was also used as a prison/hospital after [[Baylor Massacre]] in 1778. * Village Church Green – West of the Reformed Church of Tappan. This site was the first Orange County courthouse until 1798 (Rockland County was a part of Orange County). It was destroyed by fire along with the jail in 1773. The green had a whipping post and stocks, a stray cattle pound and during the American Revolution, a Liberty Pole (flag pole). * Tappan Tar Barrel Elm site – located in the middle of Oak Tree Road just south of the Sparkill Creek. It was part of the [[Revolutionary War Alarm System]]. A flaming tar barrel was to be hoisted to the top of the tree if the British were to approach. It was used just once, in 1783, as a signal that Washington and Carleton agreed to a prisoner exchange and the evacuation of New York. It was cut down in 1953. * Tappan Library – Built in 1750. Four additions have been added since. * [[Tappan Historic District]] – (NRHP) * Tappantown Historical Society ===In popular culture=== * Tappan was the filming site in the episode "New Car Smell" of the NBC comedy show, [[Ed (TV series)|''Ed'']]. Ed was getting a kite down for a woman, but got stuck in a tree. * A shot for the introduction to the film "[[No Looking Back (1998 film)|No Looking Back]]" was shot in Tappan. The shot is facing east down Old Tappan Road from the perspective of Western Highway.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119560/locations {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> * Tappan was the location of the movie studio of [[Helen Gardner (actress)|Helen Gardner]], who was the first film actor, male or female, to form her own production company. "The Helen Gardner Picture Players" made eleven feature films there between 1912 and 1914.
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