James Vincent Cassetta

Pearl River was part of a royal land patent issued to two New York businessmen, Daniel Honan and Michael Hawdon.

Honan, the accountant general of New Amsterdam, and Hawdon, a friend of the infamous Captain Kidd. Immigrants later settled in areas they called Nauraushaun, Middletown, Pascack, Sickletown, Orangeville, and Muddy Brook. In the 1870s, Julius Braunsdorf permitted the New York & New Jersey Railroad to run an extension

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"This book, split into two volumes, takes the reader on a 200 year journey into merchantilism from Pearl River's colonial period to the 1980's. It tells of Julius Braunsdorf, the town's founder who built and ran various businesses and who ran them into the 1870's without competition. This changed after his death in 1880, with business competition being the accepted way of doing things. The book shows the type of businesse that molded the economic...