On September 28, 1778, a detail of Baylor’s Continental Dragoons camped at Haring’s Tannery in River Vale was betrayed into British hands by a Tory, and several were slain. The bodies of the dead soldiers were thrown into three vats at the tannery, and this stone was placed over the vats to hide the bodies. Many years later, Garrett Holdrum’s father dragged the stone to his home with a pair of oxen. Garrett Holdrum, who was president of the school board for some score of years, later presented the stone to the Board of Education, and in 1953 it was moved to the school that bears his name.
