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Title	Map of Greene County
Creator	Beers, F. W. (Frederick W.)
Date.Original	1867
Publisher.Original	F.W. Beers, A.S. Ellis & G.G. Soule
Description	Greene County, New York is on the west side of the Hudson River, south of Albany County and North of Ulster County. This is an overview map depicting the Towns, Hamlets and Villages of Greene County with streams and some natural features located. There is a table "Table of Air Line Distances", giving distances between the towns and villages.
Town Description	Greene County was formed from parts of Albany and Ulster on March 25, 1800, and named for General Nathaniel Greene, of the Revolutionary war. Parts were annexed to Ulster County on May 26, 1812. The county, 686 square miles, is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, thirty-two miles south of Albany. The main range of the Catskill Mountains (3,000 - 3,800 feet above sea level) begins eight to ten miles west of the Hudson and extends along the southern border of the County to Delaware County. A branch from the main ridge extends in a north westerly direction through the County, separating the towns of Durham and Cairo from Windham and Hunter and dividing the County into two nearly equal parts. Another branch from the main ridge extends northward through the exteme western part of the County, between the towns of Halcott and Lexington, forming a series of highlands that rise on the band of the Schoharie Creek. This range forms the watershed between the Schoharie Creek and the Delaware River. The eastern half of the County is hilly and broken, with an irregular line of bluffs extending along the Hudson River. Parallel to the bluffs, two to four miles further west, is a range of hills 500 to 700 feet above the river. At the Town of Athens these hills are known as the Potick Hills. Between this ridge and the eastern edge of the Catskill Mountains the surface, moderately hilly, slopes toward the Catskill Creek. The principal streams are the Hudson River, forming the eastern border; The Schoharie Creek and its tributaries, draining the western slope of the mountains; and, the Catskill Creek with it’s principal tributary, the Kaaterskil, draining the eastern slopes. (The Catskill Creek was named by the Dutch from wild cats found in this vicinity. Kaaters Kil has a similar signification, but is limited to the male animals.) Small branches of these streams flow through rocky ravines which form passes locally known as “cloves”. The principal of these are the Kaaters Kil, opening westward from the Hudson into the valley of the Schoharie Creek; and the Bushkil Clove, Stoney Clove, Mink Hollow, and Plattekil Hollow, opening southward from Schoharie Creek into the valleys of Ulster county. The small streams that drain the western slope of the range in Halcott form branches of the Delaware. Schoharie Creek rises in the town of Hunter, within twelve miles of the Hudson, and flows west and north to form a branch of the Mohawk River . Few or no metallic or valuable minerals, except building and flagging stone, are found in the County. The whole region is best adapted to grazing; and the principal agricultural exports are butter, cheese, and pressed hay. Oats, barley, and potatoes are extensively cultivated, but insufficient grain is grown for local consumption. The principal manufactured products are brick, leather, and paper. Bricks are extensively made on the banks of the Hudson River, in Catskill, Athens, and Coxsackie . Before the Erie Canal was completed, Catskill, the County seat, commanded the trade of the adjacent counties west and south through to Lake Erie, and some portions of Northern Pennsylvania. It was a large wheat market; and at the Catskill Creek Falls, three miles west of the Village of Catskill, were the most extensive flouring mills in New York State. With the advent of the canals and railroads commercial transactions of the County are limited to home trade. A similar change took place in the mountain towns. About 1817, on the discovery of improved methods of tanning leather, tanners moved into the Catskill Mountains, purchased large tracts of lands covered with hemlock, and built extensive tanneries. The valleys of Schoharie Creek, Batavia, and West Kils “soon teemed with a numerous, active laboring population, and the solitude of the deep mountain glens was made vocal by the hum of industry, the buzz of the waterwheel, and the rattling of machinery. Villages of considerable magnitude, with churches, schools, stores, and taverns, rose up in the wilderness as if by magic. Thirty years ago Greene Co. made more leather than all the State beside. The supply of bark in this region was soon exhausted, and the proprietors gradually abandoned their establishments and followed the mountain chain s., erecting new factories in Ulster and Sullivan cos.; and their successors are now pursuing the hemlock into the heart of the Alleganies. The result of all this was to facilitate the occupation of the lands in the mountain towns, and in many cases to carry cultivation to the summits of the most lofty ranges, thereby opening one of the fines dairy and wool growing regions in the state.” (p.330) Catskill, located on the Hudson River, is the County seat. The first courthouse was a wooden building. After that building burned a new, brick courthouse was built. A stone jail was built in 1804, and a fireproof clerk’s office in 1812. The County poorhouse is located on a farm of 130 acres in the Cairo, ten miles west of Catskill. The farm yields revenue of $900. It averaged 130 inmates, supported at a weekly expense of $0.75 each. School is taught in the house most of the year. “The condition and adaptation of the building, and the management of the inmates, are not thought creditable to the co. authorities.” (p. 330) Six weekly newspapers are published in the County . From: J. H. French. Gazetteer of the State of New York. Port Washington, NY. Ira J. Friedman, Inc. 1860 (reprint edition). p. 329 - 331
Scale	Map Scale: 4 miles to the inch.
Subject.TGM	Maps
Subject.LCSH	Greene County (N.Y.) -- Maps Real property -- New York (State) -- Greene County
Corporate Name	Mountain House; Saratoga and Hudson Rail Road; Coxsackie Light [Lighthouse]; Four Mile Point & Light [Lighthouse]; Stuyvesant Light [Lighthouse]; Acra; Ashland; Athens; Belfast Mills; Big Hollow; Broad Street Hollow; Bushnellville; Cairo; Catskill; Centerville; Cornwallville; Coxsackie; Durham; East Ashland; East Durham; East Greenville; East Jewett; East Windham; Forest Valley; Freehold; Gayhead; Greenville; Greenville Center; Halcott; Hensonville; Hervey Street; Hunter; Jacksonville; Jefferson Flats; Jewett; Jewett Centre; Jewetts Heights; Kiskatom; Leeds; Lexington; Lime Street; Medway; New Baltimore; Norton Hill; Oak Hill; Palenville; Places Corners; Prattsville; Red Falls; Sleepy Hollow; South Cairo; South Durham; Tannersville; Union Society; West Durham; West Greenville; Westkill; Windham; Windham Center. Badger’s Island; Basic Creek; Batavia Kill; Black Lake; Bowry Creek; Brandow Point; Bronk Lake; Bronk Mill Pond; Bronks Lsland; Bush Kill; Cabin Run; Cats Kill; Catskill Lakes; Cauter’s Kill; Corlear’s Kill; Coxsackie Creek; Crom Kill; Deck Clove Kill; DeWitts Point; Dorecsilletay; Duck Cove; East Kill [Creek]; Fall Creek; Fly Creek; Fordham Point; Forest Valley Creek; Fountain Kill; Green Point; Hauncra Creek Hannacroix Creek?]; Holienbeeh’s Island; Hollisters Lake; Hollow Tree Brook; Houghtaling Island; Hudson River; Lake Brook; Lewis Creek; Little West Kill; Lower Landing; Mineral Springs Brook; Murderer’s Creek; Nutten Hook; Platter Kill; Potuck Creek; Priming Hook; Ram’s Horn Creek; Schoharie Creek; Schoharie Creek; Shingle Kill; Stony Clove Creek; Ten Mile Creek; Upper Landing; Vanluven Lake; Vosen Kill; West Kill; Yolities Kelitie Creek; Yondubock Creek.
HRVH Topic	Geography & Natural Resources
Language	eng
Format.Original	Map; Color; 16.5 x 14 in (42 x 35.5 cm)
Resource Type	Image
Relation	Atlas of Greene County, New York; F. W. Beers;
Resource Identifier	Coxmp002
Publisher.Digital	Heermance Memorial Library
Date.Digital	2006-04-2
Format.Digital	image/jp2
Digital Collection	Atlas of Greene County New York
Holding Institution	Heermance Memorial Library
Contact Information	1 Ely Street Coxsackie, New York 12051 518-731-8084 http://www.hml.lib.ny.us/
Technical Data	400 dpi; Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL. Photoshop 8.0

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