Appreciate Indian Rock
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- April
- 22
The namesake of the Indian Rock shopping center in Montebello will be getting a plaque at 1 p.m. on Sunday so passersby can reflect a bit on what came before them.
The 19,000 ton granite boulder was used by native Americans as a trail marker, pointing the way to Mahwah, N.J., which Craig Long, the village historian, translated as meaning “meeting place” for area tribes. Long will talk about the history of the rock at Sunday’s program.
Mayor Jeffrey Oppenheim said the plaque will likely be read by generations of shoppers. It will be easily within their reach, unlike roadside historical signs that people may want to read, but can’t as they race by in their cars.
The boulder, moved to the spot by glaciers that scraped the earth, was saved by residents from a dynamite blast when the shopping center was built.
It stands today in a garden, perched in a parking lot within easy sight of Route 59, just east of the Suffern Library.
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on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm by James Walsh. 
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