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Title |
Putnam County, NY map from 1854 |
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Creator |
O'Connor, R. F. |
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Date.Original |
1854 |
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Contributors |
Lith'c Inst'e of M. H. Traubel & Co. (Engravers?) |
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Publisher.Original |
O'Connor, R. F. |
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Description |
The title of the original reads: "Map of Putnam County New-York. Surveyed and Published by R. F. O'Connor. 398 Eighth Avenue, New York. 1854." It was advertised in the Putnam County Courier at the time as: "A NEW MAP OF PUTNAM COUNTY, plotted from entirely actual survey made for the purpose; it will be laid down on a large scale, so as to include all the ROADS, LANES, STREAMS, PONDS, HILLS, location of MILLS, CHURCHES, SCHOOL HOUSES, TAVERNS, STORES, BLACKSMITH SHOPS, DWELLING HOUSES, OFFICE HOUSES, &c.; thus making the Map most valuable both for present and future reference. Farmers and property holders in the County, who subscribe for a copy of this Map, previous to the completion of the survey, shall have their names or fancy name engraved opposite their house on the Map." Other features recorded are railroads, burial grounds, saw mills,grist mills, paper mills, mill ponds, barns, stables and outbuildings, tanneries, sewing shops, hotels, bridges, factories, kilns, ice houses. In addition the colored map is bordered by etchings of prominent buildings. The border also includes street maps of Carmel, Cold Spring and Nelsonville,and Brewster. The map records hamlets, crossroads, and other locally-named features, many of which will disappear or be altered within a decade because of the changes resulting from the arrival of the railroads in Putnam County. More can be learned about some of these places in the pages of The Putnam County Courier from that time period. These pages are searchable at the Mahopac Library: http://www.localarchives.org/mahopac/. Map border etchings: Innisdale, residence of T. E. Raymond, Carmel; Lake Mahopac House, L. H. Gregory, proprietor; residence of A. B. Marvin, Brewsters Station; Towners Station Hotel, S. G. Barrett, proprietor; residence of B. Baily, Carmel; The Grove, residence of F. D. Lente, M. D. Cold Spring; Glenwood Cottage, residence of John H. Holdane, Cold Spring; Undercliff, Country Residence of General George P. Morris; Raymond Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, Carmel. |
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2. Find out more about R. F. O'Connor, like first name? 7. Subject--include more terms from TGM; and common versions to go in Description or Person or Location. 11. Location--Supply large-type labels from map as searchable terms (HRVH intern will do this for the largest ones); count the number of each font size to determine how far to go in entering names. 17. Relation--link to image or text of recent Journal News Article about the 1854 map? 19. Grantor. Original--Mrs. Pugsley ? more information? 30. Versions.digital--complete entry of versions of this map. 31. Transcript--copy link to Mahopac Library here also; as part of text include editors names also. Record created by: Ron Taylor, 2009-08-17. Record checked by: , . REFORMAT THESE ITEMS INTO PARAGRAPHS |
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Subject.TGM |
Barns
Streams
Churches
Mining
Brick industry
Schools
Stables
Outbuildings
Forge shops
Mills
Farmhouses
Farms
Croplands
Rivers
Lakes & ponds
Hills
Mountains
Streets
Maps |
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Location |
Putnam County - New York |
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HRVH Topic |
Agriculture; Business & Industry; Transportation; |
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Language |
eng |
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Format.Original |
Map: Lithograph; col.; 37.75 x 57 in. (95.885 x 144.78 cm.) |
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Resource Type |
Image |
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Source |
On loan to and displayed at Patterson Town Hall, 1149 Route 311, Patterson, NY, 845-878-6500 |
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Grantor.Original |
Margaret (Peggy) B. Pugsley |
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Resource Identifier |
2150 |
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Publisher.Digital |
Patterson Historical Society |
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Date.Digital |
6/6/2008 |
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Format.Digital |
Image/tiff |
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Digital Collection |
Hudson and Housatonic Rivers' Region Historic Maps Collection |
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Holding Institution |
Patterson Historical Society |
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Contact Information |
PO Box 534
Patterson, NY 12563
http://www.pattersonhistoricalsociety.org |
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Rights |
The Patterson Historical Society holds copyrights to this digital image. Contact it for permission to reproduce, or to order copies: http://www.pattersonhistoricalsociety.org |
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Technical Data |
Archival TIFF - Xerox Synergix Scan System, model YWC-1; Accxes Client Tools, version 12.07.26, Xerox 2008; 300 dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; 531 megabytes; 17118 x 10792 pixels; no compression |
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Credits.Digital |
Theresa Williams (scanning technician), AVP Business Products (large-format scan); Jennifer Palmentiero (website image configuration) |
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Transcript |
The following text is taken from the pages of The Putnam County Courier which are available and fully searchable at the Mahopac Library website: http://www.localarchives.org/mahopac/. James D. Little, Editor and Proprietor; Wm J. Blake, Assistant Editor 1852-12-04, page 2, editorial--A New Map of Putnam County. R. F. O'Connor, Esq, a Surveyor, of New York city, is now engaged in making a survey of our County, on a plan which will show the location of all the roads, lanes, streams, mills, chuches, school-houses, farm-houses, &c. The names of property holders and farmers, who subscribe in advance, will be engraved opposite the houses, which will make the Map a valuable one for reference at all times. The Map will be engraved on stone, handsomely colored and mounted, and delivered to subscribers at the earliest moment compatible with accuracy. The price is five dollars per copy, payable on delivery of the Map. The expense attending this topographical enterprise to the publisher is heavy; and we hope the people of this County will sustain Mr. O'Connor in his worthy and laborious enterprise. Those desirous of securing an accurate chart of the County--one on which, without leaving their own apartment, they can determine, at a glance, the exact location of every highway, public or private edifice, church, school-house, pond, lake and mountain, in every part of the county, although they may have never seen them--should subscribe without delay. Persons wishing to subscribe, can do so by applying directly to Mr. O'Connor, while making the survey, and at 398 Eighth avenue, N. Y., or at our office. In making this survey, Mr. O'Connor will travel on foot, trundling what those not acquainted with his business would suppose was an open wheel-barrow, over every road in the county. He has already passed over the whole of Philipstown and Putman Valley; and has already spent three months in his arduous and laborious pursuit, and six months more will be required to enable him to complete his survey of Carmel, Kent, Patterson and Southeast. Mr. O'Connor has already published a topographical map of Orange and Westchester counties, similar in every respect to the one now preparing of our own. Three hundred subscribers will be necessary to remunerate him for the heavy expenses to be incurred, to say nothing of his own time and fatiguing labors. We hope the citizens of our county will not suffer the enterprise to fail, now already one-third completed, for the want of their reasonable support. 1853-01-08, page 2, Carmel--Putnam County Lake and creek christening, it will be remembered, was decided on at the meeting, held in this village on the 23d of December last, at which the following resolution was adopted-- Resolved, That this meeting be adjourned to Thursday, the 13th of January, 1853, at which time the numerous lakes and creeks in our county may receive appropriate names from the inhabitants living in their vicinity, with the view to their being so named on the Map of our county, soon to be published from actual survey, by Mr. O'Connor. As the adjourned meeting is intended for the whole county, we hope each town will be sufficiently represented; so that those desirous of giving new names to lakes or ponds in their vicinity may have an opportunity to be heard in the premises. There are three islands in Lake Mahopac without a name; and that persevering, energetic man, Mr. O'Connor has written to us, in relation to them, and desires that they be appropriately named at the meeting. The people of Putnam Valley, he adds, desire a new name for Sodom Corners, in that town, and are not willing to have the place called Croft's Corner's. Let a delegation come from that town, and one from Mahopac. 1853-01-22, page 2--Professor R. F. O'Connor, Who has undertaken the survey of our county, is now in his studio in West 33d street, New York, engaged in mapping those towns of our county already surveyed, viz., Philipstown, Putnam Valley, Carmel, and a part of Kent; and will resume his survey in the early part of April next, if the weather should prove favorable at that time. He will then perambulate the remainder of Kent, all of Patterson and Southeast, trundling his barrow... This man loves mathematics. Sines and cosines, tangents and unknown quantities are his daily companions; and who he makes X represent, and equal to, Putnam county, may he find its value a profitable one. 1853-05-21, page 2--Survey of Our County Finished R. F. O'Connor has completed his surveys of our county, and returned to his studio in New York to complete their mappings. The lithographic engraving of his map will soon follow; and at an early day, our citizens will be in possession of as correct and elegant a map as has been published of any other county in the State. The Trustees of each School District in our county will, of course, procure a copy of this map for their schools when it shall make its appearance, if they have not already subscribed. Such a map should be in every house and family in our county, and he whose net income is no more than ten dollars a year should appropriate half of it in securing one. |
