List of New York State Historic Markers in Ulster County, New York facts for kids

JOHN BURROUGHS
1 MILES WESTWARD IS
"SLABSIDES", RUSTIC CABIN
OF THE POET-NATURALIST,
WHERE HE SPENT MUCH TIME
IN THE LATE 90'S [sic] AND EARLY 1900'S [sic].

WAS GIVEN A PUBLIC RECEPTION HERE ON HIS JOURNEY FROM WEST POINT TO KINGSTON, NOV. 16, 1782

BRITISH SPY, WAS CONFINED IN THIS HOUSE AND HANGED ON AN APPLE TREE, OCTOBER 18, 1777

INDIAN TRAIL CONNECTING
DELAWARE VALLEY WITH HUDSON
RIVER. USED BEFORE AND
DURING REVOLUTION

TEMPORARY CAPITOL OF STATE AFTER BURNING OF KINGSTON 1777.

STATE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY 1777

FOUNDED 1774 BY TRUSTEES OF TOWN OF KINGSTON.

STOCKADE (WILTWYCK) FORT (F) AND 1658 STREETS SITE OF OLD STOCKADE 1658

OLD BLOCKHOUSE BUILT 1658

ERECTED 1805 BUILT AND OCCUPIED BY COLONEL JACOB DEYO 8TH REGIMENT, NEW YORK STATE GUARD

WHO FOUNDED VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND ON HIS FARM WHICH WAS DEVISED BYT HIS GRANDFATHER ABRAHAM ELTING TO NOAH ELTING APRIL 1797

NOAH ELTING'S FERRY 1793 HORSE DRAWN FLAT BOAT 1819 "DUTCHESS AND ULSTER", STEAM POWER FERRY EST. 1830

VALENTINE BAKER'S LANDING 1786 NEW PALTZ LANDING 1798 THE TOWN'S SHIPPING CENTER FOR A CENTURY AND A HALF

THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGA- TION OF NEW PALTZ. PRESENT EDIFICE ERECTED 1844.

ULSTER COUNTY REGIMENT COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN PELEG RANSOM

OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683, RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

SITE OF CLOVE REFORMED CHURCH
ORGANIZED 1807.
MOVED TO PRESENT SITE
IN HIGH FALLS 1867

FOR MANY YEARS BEFORE AND
AFTER THE REVOLUTION, THE
PUBLIC BUSINESS OF THE
TOWN OF MARBLETOWN WAS
TRANSACTED HERE.

BUILT IN 1797 BY S. AND A. DEPUY,
WHO KEPT A TAVERN HERE.

HOUSE HERE, THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE MET FOR ONE MONTH, AFTER BURNING OF KINGSTON, OCTOBER, 1777.

CAP. FREDERICK SCHOONMAKER,
REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER; HOME
FORTIFIED AND USED AS PLACE
OF REFUGE DURING THE WAR.

HERE STOOD THE EARLIEST
CHURCH IN THIS VICINITY,
ORGANIZED 1737, BUILT 1746,
THE FIRST MINISTER WAS
BURIED BENEATH THE PULPIT.

HOME OF JOHANNES TACK,
WHERE COURT CONVENED AFTER
BURNING OF KINGSTON BY THE
BRITISH, OCTOBER, 1777.
FIRST SCHOOL WAS NEARBY.

AT BRUCEVILLE, NATHANIEL
BRUCE, BURNED IN A BLACKSMITH'S
FORGE, SOME NATIVE ROCK AND
DISCOVERED CEMENT IN 1818.

AMERICAN NATURALIST TAUGHT SCHOOL AT HIGH FALLS IN 1857 NEAR PRESENT BUILDING

BUILT IN 1825 BY D. & H.
CANAL CO.; COMPLETED 1828;
ENLARGED IN 1842 AND 1851;
ABANDONED FEB. 23, 1899.

THE PATENTEE, IN 1698. ELTING HOMESTEAD FROM 1740. THIS HOUSE HAS AN INTERESTING SUB-CELLAR

ONE OF TWELVE ORIGINAL PATENTEES OF NEW PALTZ, IN 1692.

GOVERNED BY "THE DUSINE", A BODY OF 12 MEN CHOSEN ANNUALLY. FOR 100 YEARS THE ONLY FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

BY DANIEL DUBOIS. SITE FIRST REDOUBT. THERE ARE PORT HOLES IN THE EAST END.

ONE OF TWELVE ORIGINAL PATENTEES OF NEW PALTZ. THE LOW HOUSE AFTER 1732.

PATENTEE, ONCE SOLDIER IN ENGLISH ARMY, FRIEND OF GOV. ANDROS. KITCHEN SCENE OF COCK FIGHTS.

HOUSE BUILT IN 1712, BY
THE PATENTEE; NOW HOME OF
THE HUGUENOT PATRIOTIC,
HISTORICAL AND MONUMENTAL
SOCIETY, SINCE 1899
(n.b. sign was redone since 2011, used to be just "Huguenot Historical Society" but they apparently became patriotic and monumental)

BUILT BEFORE 1720 ARE ON HUGUENOT STREET, ON THE WALKILL RIVER, HOMES OF REFUGEES OF FRANCE.

CHURCH-SCHOOL, 1783, FIRST CHURCH OS STONE 1717. CALLED "OLD FRENCH CHURCH", PRECURSOR REFORMED CHURCH.

AND STORE. ORIGINAL GAMBREL ROOF DESTROYED IN 1888 BLIZZARD. 1968 PURCHASED BY LE FEVRE FAMILY ASSOC. MAINTAINED HHS AND LE FEVRE FAMILY.

SERVICES IN FRENCH TO 1753, DUTCH LANGUAGE TO 1800. CHURCH CORNER STONE SEEN AT SOUTH WALL OF PORTICO.

OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683, RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

PRINCIPAL OF THIS SCHOOL, 1870–71 CHIEF JUDGE OF THE NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS, 1897-1904 CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF U.S.; 1904

IN INDIAN AND TORY RAID IN 1779, TO FORT NIAGARA, CAME BACK HERE, WHILE NEIGHBORS WERE HOLDING A MEETING

1695 LOG CHURCH BUILT, 1700 2 STONE CHURCHES, 1743, 1860, 2 OTHER CHURCHES BURNED PRESENT 6TH ON SAME SPOT

IN COLONIAL CHURCH WHICH
STOOD HERE, 1778, SETTLERS
FORTIFIED THEMSELVES, AND
SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT OFF
ATTACK OF INDIAN RAIDERS.

COLONIAL MILITIA, IN THE
FRENCH AND INDIAN AND
REVOLUTIONARY WARS, MET
FOR TRAINING IN A FIELD
AT THIS PLACE.

RENAMED 1825 WHEN DELAWARE
AND HUDSON CANAL WAS BUILT.
CANAL ENTERED CREEK HERE.

IMPORTANT WATERWAY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW YORK STATE, CONNECTING DELAWARE AND HUDSON RIVERS.

FORCES, ON WAY FROM NEWBURGH TO DEFEND KINGSTON, FROM BRITISH RAIDERS IN OCTOBER, 1777.

GRANDSON OF HUGO FREER, NEW PALTZ PATENTEE; FIRST SETTLED BY FAMILY IN 1730 CALLED "HALF MOON".

LOW SNYDER, EARLY SETTLER; IN 1825 BY JUDGE LUCAS ELMENDORF. CEMENT GROUND HERE FOR D. & H. CANAL.

AN ORIGINAL SETTLER,
BUILT, 1725–1730.

FOR COL. JACOBUS RUTSEN, FIRST SETTLER, IN 1680

HOME OF LEFEVRE FAMILY, DESCENDANTS OF SIMON, NEW PALTZ PATENTEE, CALLED BLOEMENDAL.

IN 1800. PHEBE TILLSON WAS THE FIRST RECOMMENDED MINISTER.

GERRIT NEWKIRK. A FAMOUS HOSTERLRY.

THE FEW OLD COVERED BRIDGES STILL STANDING IN NEW YORK STATE.

ONE OF ORIGINAL SETTLERS
OF WAGENDALL, OCCUPIED BY
VAN WAGENEN FAMILIES, BUILT
THIS HOUSE IN 1699.

FIRST COMMERCIAL MILL OPERATED HERE 1826 BY WATSON E. LAWRENCE, CALLED LAWRENCEVILLE.

BY JACOBUS RUTSEN IN 1680. JACOBUS RUTSEN HARDENBERGH GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON.

ERECTED HERE IN 1797, REFORMED CHURCH OF BLOEMENDAL BURNED 1846, REBUILT 1847, AT NEW LOCATION AT BLOOMINGTON

COMMUNITY FIRST SETTLED
1755 BY JACOB SNYDER,
HOUSE ERECTED 1788; HOME
OF CHRISTOPHER SNYDER,
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.

PATENT GRANTED TO THE HUGUENOT SETTLERS OF NEW PALTZ, IN 1677, IS ONE HALF MILE WEST.

HOME OF JOB TILLSON, SCOUT IN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY AT 12 YEARS. COMMUNITY NAMED IN HONOR OF FAMILY.

JACOB AARTSEN VAN WAGENEN, BUILT 1669, FIRST SETTLER, AND HOME OF JOHANNES VAN WAGENEN, BUILT 1775.

OF CORNELIUS LAMBERTSEN BRINK, PURCHASER, 1688, OF SECOND LAND GRANT IN TOWN. ART OF ORIGINAL HOUSE REMAINS.

OF SAUGERTIES, N. Y. ORGANIZED JUNE 9, 1807. BUILDING ERECTED 1808.

ROAD FROM EARLY GLASS WORKS
ON THE UPPER SAWKILL, TO
SHIPPING POINT ON HUDSON,
ABOVE RONDOUT. NAMED FOR
SIGN ON COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE.

CHRISTIAN MYER, PROMINENT PALATINE SETTLER; EIGHTEEN DESCENDANTS SERVED IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

JUNE 18, 1780, NEAR THIS
SPOT, PETER SHORT AND PETER
MILLER WERE CAPTURED BY
TORIES DISGUISED AS INDIANS
AND TAKEN TO CANADA.

OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683, RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

FROM THE RHINELAND FOR PRODUCTION OF NAVAL STORES. BUILT CHURCH AND SCHOOL DURING FIRST WINTER.

CAPTURED. 23 CAPTIVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN RELEASED. 3 SOLDIERS KILLED, SEPT. 5, 1663

OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683 RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

A SMALL CANNON, WHICH THE INDIANS FEARED, AND WHICH MADE HIS HOME OF FORT FOR SETTLERS IN RAID OF 1781.

RAIDING RONDOUT VALLEY FIRED HOUSE OF CORNELIUS BEVIER, BUT FLAMES WERE PUT OUT BY NEGRO WOMAN SLAVE.

1781. GARRET VAN WAGENEN, 16, SHOT THE LEADER, AND SCARED THE OTHERS AWAY.

RECORDS DEPOSITED HERE OCT. 12, 1777 BEFORE KINGSTON WAS BURNED BY THE BRITISH

INDIAN TRAIL CONNECTING DELAWARE VALLEY WITH HUDSON RIVER. USED BEFORE AND DURING REVOLUTION

WAS FIRST MILL, BROUGHT FROM HOLLAND AND SET UP EARLY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY CORNELIUS VERNOOY.

OF NEW YORK STATE, 1683, RECEIVED ITS NAME FROM THE EARLDOM IN IRELAND OF JAMES, DUKE OF YORK.

LIFE" LEASES CAUSED RIOTS HERE BY FARMERS DISGUISED AS INDIANS, 1845, AND LED TO ABOLISHMENT OF SYSTEM.

CHRISTIAN BAEHR, A GERMAN
PEDDLER, FOUNDED STORE ON
SAWKILL, IN 1839. EARLY IN
TANBARK INDUSTRY, IT GAVE
NAME TO HAMLET BEARSVILLE.

OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN, NORTH, WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST OF THESE INDUSTRIES WHICH FLOURISHED, 1839–1900.

1775–1783; AT QUEBEC WITH GEN. MONTGOMERY; BURIED HERE. HIS HOUSE IN KINGSTON WAS BURNED BY BRITISH, 1777.

also CO. RD., N OF WOODSTOCK

ON THE UPPER SAWKILL, TO SHIPPING POINT ON HUDSON, ABOVE RONDOUT. NAMED FOR SIGN ON COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE.

BRISTOL (SHADY) 1825–1856. ONE OF EARLY INDUSTRIES IN CATSKILLS; MADE WINDOW GLASS AND DOMES FOR WAX FLOWERS, STILL FOUND IN WOODSTOCK.

ALSO RUN AS CARDING MILL, 1836 AND LATER, BY JOSHUA NASH.

OPERATED PRIOR TO 1750 BY
MAJOR JOHANNES HARDENBERGH.
GRANTED TO EPHRAIM VAN KEUREN.
LATER RUN BY CAPT. WILLIAM
SWART AND WILHELMUS ROWE.

IN WOODSTOCK, OCCUPIED 1777 BY BARRET NEWKIRK, LATER BY JACOBUS ELTINGE.

RAN MILLS HERE, 1830–1870. HIDES WERE BROUGHT IN SHIPS UP THE HUDSON TO KINGSTON.

ZENA WAS CALLED WAGHKONK OR
AWAGHKONK, INDIAN FOR LOW
MEADOWS OR MARSH; DUTCH
TRANSLATED IT VAN DAAL, OR
VALLEY; ENGLISH VANDALE.

BUILT 1767-72 FOR MAJOR C.E.
WYNKOOP, MERCHANT & PATRIOT
HONORED BY GEN. WASHINGTON'S
STAY NOV. 15, 1782
LOUNSBERY HOUSE 1818-1988

BUILT ABOUT 1770 BY
FIRST SETTLER, KEATOR,
COMMUNITY FORMERLY
CALLED KEATORS CORNERS

LAND ACQUIRED FROM INDIANS
IN 1696, JONATHAN WESTBROOK
ENGLISH OFFICER BUILT THIS
ORIGINAL WING IN 1700. BOUGHT
BY MARSHAL FAMILY IN 1924.

LEADS TO "THE MAVERICK"
FAMED FOR FESTIVAL, ART,
THE AFTER, MUSIC
AND THE SIMPLE LIFE
FOUNDED 1906.

FORMERLY ALL SAINTS' CHAPEL
BUILT 1876 OF ROSENDALE
CEMENT.
DEDICATED STATE AND
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
AUG. 11, 1986.

LISTED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF
HISTORIC PLACES

WATERING TROUGH WAS USED DURING
THE ERA OF
HORSE DRAWN TRANSPORTATION

AMERICAN NATURALIST
TAUGHT SCHOOL AT HIGH FALLS
IN 1857 NEAR PRESENT BUILDING

FIRST OWN OF LLOYD MEETING
HELD HERE MAY 6, 1845.
LLOYD TOWNSHIP SET OFF
FROM TOWN OF NEW PALTZ.
TOWN POP. 1845 WAS 2035.

1754 HISTORIC SITE ON STATE
AND NATIONAL REGISTERS.
SAWMILL, BRICK YARD AND
STORE. SLAVES SCULLED HIS
FERRY ACROSS HUDSON.

THIS HOUSE IS ON ORIGINAL
CELLAR OF HOME OF EGBERT
de WITT, WHOSE DAUGHTER MARIA
WAS MOTHER OF de WITT CLINTON
FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
CONGREGATION FORMED CIRCA
1810, BUILDING ERECTED 1823
REBUILT 1867, AFTER A FIRE.
WE WELCOME YOU TO ATTEND!

KLYNE ESOPUS & EAST NEW PALTZ
REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH
1791–1965.
MOTHER CHURCH OF ST. REMY, PORT EWEN
& UNION CENTER CONGREGATIONS.

1797 - 1883
A SLAVE HERE AT MARTINUS
SCHRYVER'S TAVERN: 1808–1810.
SPEAKER - ACTIVIST ON ABOLITION,
WOMEN'S RIGHTS & TEMPERANCE.

TRADITION TELLS US THAT TROOPS
FROM THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA
WERE GREETED HERE, FEASTED,
AND ESCORTED DOWN THE KING'S
ROAD BY JOYOUS TOWNSPEOPLE.

23 YARDS EAST STOOD STORE
OF CORNELIUS PERSEN; ALSO
FUR TRADE HEADQUARTERS OF
JOHN JACOB ASTOR; IN 1867
USED AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP

CENTENNIAL
ULSTER AND DELAWARE RR
1899-1999

ELLENVILLE GLASS CO. 1836-96
PRODUCED BOTTLES, DEMIJOHNS,
FRUIT JARS & INSULATORS ON
A LARGE SCALE EMPLOYING UP
TO FOUR HUNDRED HANDS.

NEW HURLEY REFORMED CHURCH
FOUNDED NOV 9, 1770
REBUILT 1835

ORIGINALLY PECONASINK SETTLEMENT
DUBOIS AND SCHOONMAKER
GRANTED 1749. ORIGINAL NEW PROSPECT
DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH BUILT 1815
NEW CHURCH BUILT 1856

ORIGINALLY NAMED JAMESBURGH
RENAMED WALKER VALLEY-1862
HOME TO DELAWARE INDIANS
UNTIL THE LATE 1700'S [sic]
DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN MID 1700'S [sic]

BUILT FOR COLONEL JOSIAH HASBROUCK
IN 1814. THIS FEDERAL STYLE RESIDENCE
WAS DESIGNED BY LOCAL ARCHITECT
CROMWELL OF NEWBURCH, N.Y.

LEONARD HARDENBERGH BUILT
THIS MILL AND RESIDENCE IN
1762, THE MILL PROVIDED
FLOUR FOR THE ARMY DURING
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1797? - 1883 BORN INTO
SLAVERY IN SWARTEKILL, THEN
HURLEY, SHE ROSE TO BECOME
A FAMOUS ORATOR AND
CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

IN OCTOBER 1826 SOJOURNER TRUTH WALKED THIS ROAD FROM WEST PARK TO RIFTON LEAVING SLAVERY BEHIND FOR A LIFE OF FREEDOM

JENKINS-DUBOIS FARM & MILL
PART OF 1688 LOUIS DUBOIS PATENT
LAMBERT JENKINS EST. MILLS
& BUILT STONE HOUSE IN 1793
DUBOIS-JENKINS FAMILY STILL
RESIDES ON THE FARM

NAMES FOR SETTLER GERTRUYD BRUYN.
HER 1682 DEED PURCHASING
LAND FROM THE INDIANS
CONTAINS THE EARLIEST USE OF
THE NAME "SAWANKONCK" (SHAWANGUNK)

DISTRICT NO. 8
BUILT C. 1840 THIS NEW SCHOOL
HOUSE REPLACED THE OLD SCHOOL
WHICH STOOD ONE-FOURTH MILE NORTH
THE SCHOOL CLOSED 1943 SERVING AS A
PLACE OF LEARNING FOR 100 YEARS.

PARSONAGE BUILT 1751
CHURCH BUILT 1752-55
OLDEST CHURCH STILL IN USE
AMONG REFORMED CHURCH
CONGREGATIONS IN AMERICA

A STONE FARM HOUSE TYPICAL OF
HOUSES BUILT IN ULSTER COUNTY,
NY DURING THE LATE 18TH AND
EARLY 19TH CENTURIES.
AN HISTORIC SITE.

LIVED HERE IN 1828 WHEN SHE FOUGHT TO FREE HER ENSLAVED SON, BECOMING THE 1ST BLACK WOMAN IN US HISTORY TO SUE A SLAVEHOLDER—AND WIN.

COLONEL HASBROUCK HOUSE - 2022

BUILT IN 1755 BY BENJAMIN DUBOIS, GRANDSON OF ISAAC DUBOIS, NEW PALTZ PATENTEE.