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Taxpayers Livid Over Slave Trade Ties To Historic Rochelle Park Home Taxpayers Livid Over Slave Trade Ties To Historic Rochelle Park Home
Taxpayers Livid Over Slave Trade Ties To Historic Rochelle Park Home Recent discoveries connecting the 19th-century Captain William Tyson House in Rochelle Park to slave trafficking have taxpayers fuming over the already controversial historic home. Others, however, are on a mission to save the East Passaic Street house before it hits the auction block. The mansion was purchased in June 2015 for $600,000 from the Rochelle Park surplus account while Republicans ran the government. The house to moved closer to auction at Wednesday night's council meeting with the minimum bid at $650,000.  While more than 800 people want to preserve the historic home, others …

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by Cecilia Levine