Nyack Sketch Log: New Rector at Grace Church

... Episcopal Church was founded in 1861 by Franklin Babbitt. When Babbitt crossed the Hudson on a sailing sloop from Tarrytown, some considered Nyack "an old Dutch place about fifty years behind the times." At 32, Babbitt swiftly cobbled together a ...

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