Ladentown is a

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in the Town of Haverstraw,

Rockland County, New York Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is about from the Bronx at their closest points. The county's population, as of t ...

, United States, is located in the center of a triangle between

Haverstraw Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River. The town runs from the we ...

, Pomona and

Suffern Suffern is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village that was incorporated in 1796 in the town of Ramapo, New York, Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. Suffern is located 31 miles northwest of Manhattan. As of the 2010 census, Suf ...

and two miles west of Mount Ivy. It is located north-northwest of

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History

Ladentown was named after Michel Leyden, who was a nail cutter in the Ramapo works who sometimes spelt his name as Laden. He opened a trading store here which became one of the first industries in the county. The

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brought baskets, beer barrel hoops, bowls, chairs, ladles and spoons they made from the wood and reeds found in the mountain to Laden's store to sell or take to New York City to be sold. In 1836, Mr. Leyden sold his store to John J. Secor, but he still took his woodenware to New York City to sell. The area, prior to its naming, was settled by

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families.

Landmarks and places of interest

LADENTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, ROCKLAND COUNTY NY

Ladentown United Methodist Church Ladentown United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church on Ladentown Road in the Village of Pomona, Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1865 and is a rectangular one story, traditional timber-frame structure above a ra ...

Historic Church 1865 (

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)

Books and publications

* Zimmermann, Linda, ''Rockland County: Century of History'', Historical Society of Rockland County, May 2002,

External links

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