"Skating on Asher's Pond. In the background is the Beekman Livingston Mill (built about 1715). and the Dutch Reformed Church (built 1733)" (From: "The Rhinebeck Post Office Murals," 1940) Olin Dows Considered the recollections of Rhinebeck...
From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" Panel 1(a): Some time between September 12 and 20 Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" may have anchored near Rhinecliff. A sailor chopping a tree is watched by Indians" who have burned a tree around its base....
Panel 1 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" Panel 1(a): Some time between September 12 and 20 Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" may have anchored near Rhinecliff. A sailor chopping a tree is watched by Indians" who...
This document shows the calculation of Dr. Samuel Staats’ share of ownership in the Wawayanda Patent by reason of winning a lawsuit in 1713, establishing his prior claim and adding him as the thirteenth owner.
The first of three last wills and testaments written by Louis Bevier, Huguenot refugee and one of the founders of New Paltz, NY. Of particular interest are the provisions made for the testator's disabled son, Andries.
On a wintry day, ten ice barges sit below the conveyer at Rockland Landing on the Hudson River. The conveyer lifted ice from Rockland Lake up and over the gap in Hook Mountain, and then lowered it to the river's edge where it was loaded onto...
