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The Ulster Iron Works manufacture bar and hoop iron, em- ploy about 300 hands and have a capacity for manufacturing about 6,000 tons annually. The works, covering about two acres of ground, are owned by Messrs. Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co., and make none but the best quality of iron. The works were started about 1828.
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The Sheffield Paper Mills, of I. B. Sheffield, manufacture writing paper. There are two buildings, 140 by 40 feet, and 120 by 40. The power is supplied by Esopus Creek, which ha, a fall of thirty-one feet. The capacity of the mills is two and a half tons daily, giving employment to about 130 hands. The first mills were erected by Henry Barclay in 1830. They were rebuilt in 1860 by Messrs. White & Sheffield, and again rebuilt in 1868-9 by the present proprietor.
S. J. Adams' Town Hall is 100 by 50 feet, will seat from 1,000 to 1,200 persons. It is elegantly finished and has sufficient avenues of egress to allow it to be cleared in five minutes. It cost $25,000.
Saugerties Circulating Library, recently established, is under the management of the Christian Association and in a pros- perous condition.
Malden, (p. v.) on the Hudson, two miles above Saugerties, contains two churches, a boarding school, a hotel, three stores, a paper mill, two blacksmith shops, a coal, lumber and wood yard. two stone yards and about 700 inhabitants. Blue stone is shipped extensively from this place. A school house of brick, and costing $5,000, has recently been erected.
The Straw Paper Mill of Theodore Isham was built in 1867. The building is 28 by 86 feet ; it is operated by a 40 horse-power engine, and has a capacity for making 4,800 reams of paper per month.
The Bigelow Blue Stone Co. employ about 200 hands and have seven planing machines in operation for dressing stone. The motive power is a 100 horse-power engine. A large number of vessels are employed in transporting the stone to New York and other places. This Company shipped over $1,000,000 worth in 1870.
Burhans & Brainard, J. P. Russell & Co. and Ransom & Co., are extensive dealers in blue stone, in the town of Saugerties.
Glasco, (p. v.) about three miles south of Saugerties, on the Hudson, contains two churches, viz., Methodist and Reformed ; three stores, a hotel, nine brick yards, four blue stone compa- nies, a lumber and coal yard, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop and about 800 inhabitants. J. G. Smithbergh owns two brick yards, having a combined capacity for making 23,000,000 bricks annually. He gives employment to about 330 hands, about one- third of whom are married. We are not able to give the capa- city of the other yards.
West Camp, (p. v.) upon the Hudson, about four miles north of Saugerties, contains a store, a stone yard, a summer boarding
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honse for city visitors, and about twenty dwellings. Burhans & Brainard's business in blue stone at this point amounts to about 830,000 a year.
Quarryville, (p. v.) in the north part, contains two churches, viz., Methodist and Roman Catholic ; a district school, two gro- ceries, a dry goods store and about 350 inhabitants. The prin- cipal business is quarrying blue stone for different companies. The public school house was erected in 1870 and will seat about 250. About $600,000 worth of stone is shipped from this point annually.
West Saugerties contains about thirty houses.
Browersville is a hamlet of about a dozen dwellings.
Trumpbourville, or Asbury, on the north border, contains a Methodist church and about a dozen houses.
Glenerie is a small village in the south part, containing the Ulster White Lead Manufactory. About 40 men are employed, making about 1,500 tons annually.
The Laflin and Rand Powder Company's works are located in this town. They make about 24,000 kegs annually.
Caatsban is a hamlet containing a church, a school, a black- smith shop, two wagon shops and a half a dozen houses.
The first settlements were made by the Dutch at an early date, but a colony of Palatinates located at West Camp in 1710. Stephen Myers and brothers settled at a place called "Churchland," a short distance west of Saugerties village. Martin Snyder settled at the same place, and G. W. Dedrick at West Camp, Aaron Newkirk and Felte Fiero in the same vicinity, all about the year 1700. Dedrick Marrtesstock settled at "Kaatsban " in 1728. Among the other early settlers were Peter Winne, Edward Woods, Myndert Mynderse, B. Barham, Jacobus Pearson, Myndert Schutt and Godfrey Denalfen. The name of the town is supposed to have been derived from the Dutch "Zagger," signifying a sawyer, from a sawmill built by Robert Livingston on the Sawkill. Ebenezer Wooster first used the name in 1749, when surveying the bounds of the Hardenburgh patent. We learn from " Spafford's Gazetteer," that in 1813 the village consisted of about a dozen houses, " handsomely situated on a level plain where is considerable business." " Another settlement consisting of a few scattered houses and a stone Dutch Reformed Church is called Kaats- buon." At this time there was a bridge over the Plattekill, on the New York and Albany stage road. A turnpike connected Saugerties village with Woodstock.
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In 1826 Henry Barclay, of New York, purchased the preset! site of Saugerties village and the water power. He built a da !: and constructed a race through the solid rock, making a fall . : forty-seven feet. He soon after built a rolling mill, paper m ... and cotton factory. This was the commencement of the manu- facturing interests of the town.
The first church organized in the town was The Evangelica! Lutheran, at West Camp, in 1708, by Rev. Joshua Kocherthal. In 1810 there were about 25 families connected with it. The first house of worship was erected about the same time. This is one of the oldest Lutheran churches in America. The congregation was organized by immigrants from the Palatinate in Germany, under the fostering care of Queen Anne of Eng. land, who presented the congregation a bell, which was long retained in honor of the donor, and only within the recollec- tion of the present membership of the Church was it ex- changed for a larger one. The Church was established upon the basis of the Augsburg Confession, and still maintains its ancient landmarks. A new house of worship is being erected that will seat 580, and will cost $10,450. The present value of church property is $14,000; the number of communicants is about 300. Rev. P. M. Rightmyer is the pastor.
The Methodist Church of Saugerties was organized about 1820. with 14 members. The first house of worship was erected about 1830 ; the present house in 1861, seating 450 and costing 88,000. The present value of church property is about $10,000 ; the membership is 207, and the pastor, Rev. A. H. Furguson.
Trinity Church was organized by John Watts, Kearney, Henry and Catharine Barclay. Rev. Reuben Sherwood, D. D., was the first rector.
The German Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1859 by Rer. R. Adelberg, with 71 members. Their house of worship will seat 300; it was purchased in 1859 for $1,200. The membership is 151, the value of church property is about $5,000, and the pastor is F. C. C. Kahler.
The Methodist Church of Glasco was organized in 1858 by J. J. Graw with about 40 members, and a house of worship was erected the same year. The present house was erected in 1871 : it will seat 325, and cost $7,000. The present membership is 130; the pastor is Rev. J. H. Wood, and the value of church property is $10,500.
The Methodist Church, located at Bethel, was organized June 5, 1871, by Rev. J. H. Wood, with 37 members. A house of worship, seating 250. and costing 83,000, has been erected. The pastor is Rev. J. H. Wood.
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The Methodist Church at Unionville was organized in 1871 by Rev. J. H. Wood, with 24 members. Their house of worship was purchased of the M. E. Church of Glasco, and removed to its present location. It will seat 200 and is valued at $1,700. J. H. Wood is the pastor.
The Centenary Methodist Church of Malden was organized in 1826 by J. C. Tackaberry. The present membership is 140; the value of the church property is about $16,000. Rev. J. W. Smith is the pastor.
The Reformed Church of Flat Bush was organized in 1807 by a committee of the Classis of Ulster, with nineteen members. Rev. Peter A. Overbaugh was the first pastor. Their house of worship was erected in 1808 and enlarged in 1844. It was again repaired and enlarged in 1866, and will now seat 425. The present value of the church property is $12,000. The pres- ent membership is 239, and the pastor is Rev. Wm. B. Merritt.
Immanuel Church, Glasco, is a branch of the church of Flat Bush, organized in 1870 by Wm. B. Merritt. The value of the church property is about $6,000. Their house will seat 350.
. The Reformed Church of Plattekill, in the south part of the town, was organized in October 1838, by the Classis of Ulster Co., with 57 members. M. L. Schenck was the first pastor, succeeded by N. F. Chapman, who was succeeded by Solomon F. Cole. Rev. M. L. Schenck is the present pastor. The pres- ent value of the church property is about $14,000. The present membership is 264. Their house of worship will seat 450. They have another house of worship about three miles west of this; it will seat 350 and cost 83,000.
The Reformed Church .of Blue Mountain was organized in 1851 with 15 members. The first pastor was Rev. A. C. Hill- man. The present membership is 136, and the value of the church property, 83,000.
The Presbyterian Church, Malden, was organized by the Pres- bytery of Columbia in 1834, with 12 members. Their house of worship was erected the same year and will seat 200. The pres- ent membership is 71 ; the pastor is Rev. G. P. Noble, and the value of the church property is 812,000. The first pastor was Rev. John N. Lewis.
The population of the town in 1870 was 10,456, and its area 38,328 acres, with an assessed value of $1,392,280.
The number of school districts is 22; teachers employed, 27; children between 5 and 21, 4,057; attending school, 2,478 ; average attendance, 716.
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SHIANDAKEN was formed from Woodstock, April 3. 1804. A part was annexed from Neversink (Sullivan Co.) ::. 1800. A part of Olive was taken off in 1823, Denning i !! 1849, and a part of Hardenburgh in 1859. It is the north .. west corner town of the County. The surface is chiefis : mountainous upland, broken by deep ravines. The declivities are steep and rocky, and a large part of the surface is too rough for profitable cultivation. The principal inhabitants occurs the valleys, the mountains being left to wild beasts and hunters The streams abound in trout. The soil in the valleys is a clay and sandy loam. Lumbering, shingle making, and tannin ... are the principal branches of business carried on. Stone quarrying is carried on to some extent, several quarries having been opened since the advent of the railroad. The principal streams are Esopus Creek and its branches, Barber Bush, Mud. dy Bush and Branch Creeks. Esopus Creek is crossed by five bridges in this town. Slide Mountain is said to be the highest peak in Ulster County. The Rondout & Oswego Railroad ex- tends through the town, giving increased activity to business operations.
Shandaken, (p. v.) in the central part of the town, thirty miles from Kingston, is a station on the Rondout & Oswego Railroad, and contains a Methodist church, two hotels, two stores, a grocery, a chair factory, a wagon shop, two blacksmith shops, two shoe shops, a grist mill, a saw mill, a harness shop and about forty dwellings.
Pine Hill, (p. v.) in the west part of the town, on the eastern slope of the hill from which it receives its name, contains a Methodist church, a school, a hotel, two stores, two saw mills, a sash and blind factory, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, a shoe shop, a grocery and about 25 dwellings.
Mount Summit, about a mile distant, is a station on the Ron- dout & Oswego Railroad.
Big Indian (p. o.) is a station on the railroad, and contains a hotel and a store newly erected. The place received its name from the circumstance that an uncommonly large Indian was once killed here.
Phonicia (p. v.) contains a hotel, four stores, a drug store, a wagon shop, a carving shop, a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, two saloons, a school and about twenty dwellings.
Chichester contains a chair manufactory, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, a store, a school and about thirty-five dwellings. The chair manufactory turns out about 120,000 chairs annually, using about one million feet of lumber and giving employment to one hundred hands.
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New Mountain
House !
The NEW MOUNTAIN HOUSE, erected during the season of 1871, at
SAM'S POINT,
IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
It is situated on one of the most picturesque and sightly
Peaks of the Shawangunk Mountains !
Easy of access, and 2, 300 feet above lide water.
Ellenville and Pine Bush Stations,
Un Branches of the MIDLAND R. R., are only five miles distant from the House.
From the Point. one of the most extensive views obtained from any point on the JAWANGUNK of CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, may be obtained, extending over several Counties aud into Six States. The Mountain adjoining abounds in rugged and romantic scenery.
Also two Beautiful and Wonderful Mountain Lakes.
To pleasure seekers the Mountain affords every attraction, and the vicinity at all times is a favorite spot for parties from the adjoining country.
"Whomon Dataford Dronristor
Sam's Point, Ulster Co., N. Y.
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WINKOOP,
Bookseller & Stationer WALL STREET, KINGSTON, N. Y.
Recoives all the Popular, Standard and Miscellaneous Books, AS SOON AS ISSUED. ALSO,
School & Sunday School Books, BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c.
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Ministers and Sunday School Superintendents Can be supplied from this Store with all Religious Books or Periodicals
LARGE STOCK OF
PAPER HANGINGS. Of Latest Stylesand for F. S. WYNKOOP, JR.
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Mount Pleasant, (The Corner p. o.) in the east part of the town, contains a Reformed church, a school, a hotel, a store, a turning shop, three heading mills, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop, a wintergreen distillery and about twenty dwellings.
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Woodland is a post office.
The first settlements were made before the Revolution. Among the early settlers were John Longyear, Cornelius Fur- lough, Jacob Brink, Conradt Wisner, Frederick Markle, Thos. Swartwout, Gilbert Lane, Cornelius Winne, Stephen Cary, La- zarus Sprague, Christopher Longyear, Isaiah Davis, Wm. Long- year, Wm. Lane, Wm. Cure, George Nesbeck, Elias Peck, James Rosecrans, German Cater, Wilhelmus Merrick and Wm. Rogers. Peter R. Livingston once owned a tract of land six miles square in this town. There was a rude fort near Mount Pleasant, erected as a defense against the Indians. The name "Shan- daken " is said to signify " Rapid Water." The road from the center to Lexington, Greene Co., is constructed through a pass four miles long, and in some places scarcely 500 feet wide, and abounding in picturesque scenery. It is through the watershed between Esopus and Schoharie Creeks.
The Reformed Church, located near Mt. Pleasant, has a mem- bership of about thirty. The first pastor was Rev. Mr. Hilow. Their house of worship was erected in 1857. It cost about $1,200 and will seat 200. Rev. Mr. Hammond is the present pastor.
The Methodist Church, Shandaken Center, has a membership of 125. Their house of worship was erected in 1840; it will seat 300 and is valued at 84,000. Rev. E. H. W. Barden is the present pastor.
The Methodist Church of Pine Hill has a membership of 75. Their house of worship was erected in 1859 and will seat 250. Present value of church and site, $2,500 ; parsonage, $1,800.
The population of the town in 1870 was 2,703, and its area, 69,057 acres, with an assessed value of $118,467.
There are thirteen school districts, employing the same num- ber of teachers. The number of persons between 5 and 21 years, at the last report, was 948; the number attending school, 648; the average attendance, 272; the value of school houses and sites, $4,675.
SHAWANGUNK was formed as a precinct, Dec. 17, 1:43, and as a town, March 7, 1688. A part of Gardiner was taken off in 1853, a part was annexed to Plattekill in 1846 and 1
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restored in 1848. It is the central town upon the south borde: of the County. The surface is a hilly and broken upland. The Shawangunk Mountains extend along the west border and ri -. to the hight of 2,000 feet above tide. The Shawangunk Crerk forms about half of the south boundary, and flows north-east through near the center, receiving in its course, Dwaarskill from the west. Wallkill flows north-east through the east part, r. - ceiving Muddykill from the east. The soil is generally a grav- elly loam.
Shawangunk, (p. v.) on the Wallkill Valley R. R., in the south- east part of the town, contains a Reformed church, two hotels. five stores, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, a paper mill. a lumber and coal yard, an undertaker, two boot and shoe shops, a milliner shop, forty dwellings and a population of 262.
The Paper Mills of Israel D. Condit & Son, in this village, give employment to 30 to 40 hands, and when running full time, have a capacity for making from 50 to 60 tons of paper per month. Newspaper from straw is the product. The mair building is 116 by 110 feet, and two stories high.
New Hurley, (p. v.) in the north-east part, at the junction of Gardiner and Plattekill, contains a Reformed church, a wagon shop, a blacksmith shop and seven dwellings. The post office is in the town of Plattekill, about half a mile east, at a place known as Flint.
The Wallkill Valley Creamery, located about three-fourths of a mile west of Shawangunk village, receives about 1,400 quarts of milk and makes a hundred pounds of butter daily.
The Wallkill Valley Sleigh Works, of James B. Crowell, are located on the Dwaarskill, about one mile from Shawangunk village, on the site of the first saw mill erected in town. Child- ren's sleighs, oxbows, agricultural implements, cutting boxes. brick moulds &c., are largely manufactured. The works were commenced in 1870, and have been enlarged so as to employ from ten to thirty hands.
Galeville, on the west bank of the Wallkill, in the north part of the town, contains a Methodist church, a hotel, a school house, a grist mill, a saw mill, an axhelve and spoke factory, & wagon and blacksmith shop, a dozen dwellings and 82 inhabit- ants.
New Fort, on the farm of Daniel G. Hardenburgh, east side of the Shawangunkkill, is supposed to be the camping ground of the Indians whither they were pursued after the burning of Kingston, or Wiltwyck as it was then called, in 1663.
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Bruynswick, (p. v.) in the north part of the town, contains a store, two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a school and a dozen dwellings.
Dwaarskill, (p. v.) in the central part, contains a hotel, a store, a saw mill and felloe factory, a cooper shop, a wagon shop, a blacksmith shop and 69 inhabitants.
Walker Valley, (p. v.) in the west part, contains a Methodist church, a hotel, two stores, two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a harness shop, a saw mill, twenty dwellings and a popu- lation of about 100. The post office name was formerly James- burgh.
Ulsterville (p. v.) contains a hotel, two stores, a cooper shop, a wagon shop, a blacksmith shop, a school and sixteen dwell- ings. It is located in the south part of the town, west of Shawangunkkill.
New Prospect contains a Reformed church, a hotel and four dwellings.
The Ulster Coal and Iron Company, composed of wealthy capitalists of New York City and vicinity, was organized for the purpose of mining. They have commenced sinking a shaft on the farm of James Kerr, about a mile south-west of Walker Valley, in search of coal. About three years ago, a party, while boring for oil about a mile and a half south of this place, struck a vein of bituminous coal, seven feet in thickness, at the depth of 160 feet, and another one, nine feet thick, at the depth of 330 feet. This was sufficient to induce the present operations which were commenced in May 1871. The shaft is six feet by twelve in the clear, and the work of sinking is still in progress.
A part of this town appears to have been the granary of the Esopus Indians when the first settlers entered the County, and how long it had then been under cultivation no one can tell. From the journal of Martin Kregier, who commanded the ex- pedition sent in pursuit of the Indians after the burning of Wiltwyck, June 7, 1663, we learn that the Indians had erected a new fort about thirty-six miles south-west from Kingston. Capt. Kregier, with his company of 55 men, crossed the Ron- dout and pursued his way upon the east side of the mountain. Six miles from the place of destination they crossed a rapid stony creek, where there were corn fields and wigwams. The fort was situated upon a plain near the creek, with large fields of corn on the opposite side. The palisades were as large as a
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man's body, and fifteen feet in hight, but the fort was not com. pleted. A sharp skirmish ensued, which resulted in the retreat of the Indians, leaving twenty-one killed and thirteen prisoners. Twenty-three of the women and children taken at the burning of Wiltwyck were rescued. Kregier lost three killed and s :. wounded. After plundering the place he returned without setting fire to the village. In October of the same year he re- turned and destroyed the village and all of the corn. The location of this fort is supposed to be the place that now bears the name of New Fort.
The first settlement was made by the Dutch, along the Sha- wangunkkill, from 1680 to 1700. Among the early settlers were Jacob Bruyn, Cornelius Schoonmaker, Abram Schutt, Zachariah Hoffman, Benjamin Smedes, Jacob Decker, John Ter- williger and Johannes Decker. Along the Wallkill, Robert Kain, Robert Graham, David Davis, Daniel Winfield, Hendrick Van Wegen and James Pennock settled from 1710 to 1730. A school was taught near Bruynswick between 1730 and 1740. The first mill was probably at the mouth of Dwaarskill. The Dutch applied the term "Dwaar" to streams that flowed some- times in one direction and sometimes in another. This would occur only near the mouth of the stream. The Winfield farm. about a mile north of Galeville, was settled by Daniel Winfield. from England, May 15, 1732. It is now in possession of the seventh generation of Winfields. It was settled under the old Hardenburgh Patent.
Among the early settlers of the north-west part of the town. were two brothers named Thomas and Johannes Jansen. They erected stone dwellings about two miles apart, and engaged in the cultivation of the soil. At an early period of the Revolu- tion, Johannes Jansen was appointed Colonel of a militia regi- ment. This, in addition to his known Whig sentiments, made him a peculiar object of vengeance to the prowling Tories and Indians that lurked about the neighborhood. The Colonel's house was constructed so as to be a good defense against any sudden attack, and being well armed he did not remove his family from the place. In the latter part of September 1780, when most of the Indians had left this region, and no fears were entertained of an attack, a party consisting of four In- dians and a Tory, made an attack upon Col. Jansen's premises. One of the party, known as Shank's Ben, had spent the early Years of his life in this neighborhood and was well acquainted with every locality. The house was plundered, several of the slaves of Col. Jansen taken prisoners, and others murdered. Mr. Christopher Mentze, a native of Germany, resided about
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three-fourths of a mile west of Jansen's. He had a son John, in the prime of life, who had been a frequent companion of Ben in hunting excursions of former days. An old gentle- man named Mack, who resided on the west side of the moun- tain, was murdered while on his way home, as were also two ladies, at the same time.
The first church organized was the Reformed, Oct. 10, 1753 ; Rev. V. Vroman was the first pastor.
The Wallkill Valley Reformed Church was organized May 11, 1869, by Rev. A. B. Van Zandt, M. V. Schoonmaker, L. L. Com- fort and Cyril Spaulding, with 28 members. They erected a house of worship in 1870, seating 300, at a cost of $12,000. The present membership is 30. The church was dedicated March 21, 1871. The sermon was preached by Rev. V. M. Hulbert, D. D. They have no settled pastor.
The Walker Valley Methodist Church was organized in 1853 by E. Oldren with 20 members. Their house of worship was erected in 1855; it will seat 250 and cost 82,300. The present membership is 50; the present pastor, E. B. Pierce.
The population of the town in 1870 was 2,823 ; its area, 35,433, with an assessed value of 8640,625.
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