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 letter to the editor, clipped from the Chester Independent Republican newspaper, discusses two proposed routes for the new state road connecting Chester and Monroe. The swamp road, as "Farmer's Boy" calls it, was the one that was built. ...
Yelverton Indenture (mortgage) - June 16, 1778. Abijah Yelverton, Innholder, mortgage to Peter Townsend, for a part of the Cromline Tract of 42 acres. This was acknowledged before Judge Marvin in Chester. This 42 acres comprised most of what later...
The library was incorporated with seven trustees on Nov. 17, 1797. This organization was verified before Judge Wickham in Goshen and recorded that same year. Abijali Yelverton, innkeeper, was appointed the first librarian.
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
In this letter, Lockwood writes John H. Yelverton to request that he use his influence in the sale of Uncle Thomas Yelverton's property.
As Sing Sing prison became notorious, the village of Sing Sing changed its name to Ossining on March 25,...
September 15, 1892 - Special notice to contractors proposing to bid on the installation of the water pipeline from Walton Lake to the Village of Chester.
Clippings; Water supply; Lakes & ponds; Actions & defenses; Lawyers;
This article reports on a lawsuit concerning the conflict between the Village of Chester's use and control of Walton Lake as its water supply and the surrounding property owners.
