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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When the Borden family arrived in the nineteenthcentury, educational opportunities in Ulster County were limited; classes rarelyextended beyond the eighth grade. This changed when the philanthropic Bordensestablished their Borden Condensed Milk Companyand gave Wallkill the means to construct one of the area’s first high schools. In1938, Central School District No. 1—incorporating the towns of Shawangunk,Plattekill, Gardiner, Marlborough, Newburgh...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
(2016)
Language
English
Description
This is the first comprehensive historical restrospective on Las Villas of Plattekill and Ulster County ever written. Ulster County was first settled in 1652 and officially became a county in 1683. Its rural nature, scenic beauty, and the Catskill Mountains have made it a popular vacation destination since the 19th century. Describedin numerous news article as the Spanish Alps, Las Villas, as they were collectively known, was a lively enclave of...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Spies! Loyalists! Tories! Conspiracy! Strange messages? Codes in invisible ink? The American Revolution was first and foremost a civil war that tore at the very fabric of families as well as society. Patriots were determined to separate from England; while Loyalists were just as determined to defeat what they saw as a rebellion. Many do not know that during several critical periods the war was almost fatally undermined by English sympathizers or...
34) Where slavery died hard: the forgotten history of Ulser County and the Shawangunk Mountain region
Publisher
Cragsmoor Historical Society
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"This documentary video grows out of one community's efforts to reconsider its history and the history of the region that surrounds it. Taking as its subject the history of enslavement in Ulster County's rural hinterlands, the Cragsmoor Historical Society has produced the video as step towards fashioning a more inclusive narrative about the region's past. This new narrative acknowledges that for more than 150 years the region was the home of enslaved...
39) Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York: Native American prophecy & European discovery, 1609
Author
Publisher
Council Oak Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 2009, New York observed the 400-year anniversary of Henry Hudson's September 1609 discovery of Manhattan Island. This book chronicles the event from the perspective of the people who met Hudson's boat-which they at first thought was surely a great waterfowl-floating. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to today's Algonquins, Evan Pritchard tells the story from various perspectives: that of Hudson's body guard, scribe,...