This boulder had been for two hundred and fifty years a landmark near
the Western shore of the Hudson River, opposite Upper Nyack. The
school children of Nyack contributed the funds to remove it from its
ancient bed and place it in front of the Nyack Carnegie Library, where
it now stands and probably will stand for thousands of years to come,
a monument to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
The boulder contains the Gettysburg address and was dedicated June 13,
1908.
Louis Bradford Couch, born at East Lee, Massachusetts, October 1,
1851. Son of Bradford Milton and Lucy L. Couch. Educated in the public
schools of Northampton, Massachusetts. Began the study of medicine in
1871, graduating with honors from the New York Homeopathic Medical
College, March 4, 1874, being awarded the Allen gold medal for the
best original investigations in medicine; he was graduated from the
New York Ophthalmic Hospital, the same year, as an eye and ear
surgeon. Practiced medicine for thirty-nine years at Nyack, New York.
Served three years as one of the medical experts on the New York State
Board of Health.