Scope and Contents This collection comprises a selection of fourteen maps prepared by the firm of Raymond and May Associates, Planning and Urban Renewal Consultants of Pleasantville, New York on behalf of the Village of Catskill. These maps illustrate a plan to convert Willard's Alley, a small neighborhood off Main Street, into a municipal parking lot as part of a broader plan to revitalize the business and commerical section of the east side of the Village of Catskill in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Scope and Contents The full title of this survey is "A Map of the lands of Henry Bruhans and Temperance his wife, and John Langendyck, Jr. and Elizabeth his wife in the Town of Catskill, County of Greene. Divided between them by order of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York 29th April 1815.As such, the map reflects a color-coded division of a selection of lands on the Embought at the southeastern corner of the Town of Catskill extending from the Hudson River to the Kaaterskill...

Scope and Contents This manuscript survey map shows signs that it was previously bound, and bears no indication as to by whom the map was drafted or what purpose it served. The survey shows the southern section of the east side of the Village of Catskill, being the lands east of Catskill Creek and south of William Street extending to Catskill Point and the banks of the Hudson River. All roads are shown and labeled with lots of land drawn filled in only for specific areas. The properties thus described are at the...

Scope and Contents In 1795 John Cantine was granted the tidal flats on the northern mouth of the Catskill Creek. The lands were broken into large tracts and subdivided in order to convey the land evenly by ballot to seven proprietors a decade later in 1805. This map, prepared by John Kiersted on behalf of the proprietors shows the color coded divisions or "classes" with a number and letter assigned to each subdivision of each lot. On this map, the names of the proprietors are given as such: [unknown] Van Gorden,...

Scope and Contents This map is intended to illustrate the context of the Church family's lands in relation to the transportation infrastructure and existing settlements in the middle states and western New York at that time. As such, the map shows all of the tate of New York south of the Adirondack Mountains, the western and southern portions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, all of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and a small part of northern Maryland. Emphasis is given to showing the extents of...

Scope and Contents This map shows a section of the division line between the towns of Catskill and Coxsackie running from the mouth of Murderer's Creek near Loonenburg westward towards Cairo. Water features are the only geographic reference shown on the map, and any homes and roads which the line passed on its westward course are shown and described. Settlements are shown at Loonenburg, near Shinglekill, and on what may be Sandy Plains.

Scope and Contents This map shows a selection of the lands of David Abeel, Garrett Abeel, Catherine Abeel, Anthony Abeel, and their neighbors situated along the Cauders Kill [Kaaterskill Creek] in the Town of Catskill. The lands of various family members and neighbors are delineated with separate colored lines, and both built and natural landscape features are shown. Included is an accurate rendering of the course of the Kaaterskill Creek and the high bluffs that overlook it where the old Catskill Turnpike [State...

Scope and Contents This extensive survey of the lands east and south of the Kiskatamanisha Patent [Kiskatom] shows the divided lands of David Abeel made among his heirs as well as the lands of William Cockburn and his family to the south on ajoining patents. The map's bounds extend northward to the boundaries of the Catskill and Kiskatamanisha Patents, westward to the lands of Vicnent Matthews and others, south to the Pantent of Cornelius Ten Broeck, and east to the banks of the Caders Kill [Kaaterskill...

Scope and Contents This map is a period copy of the map of the division of the Catskill Patent prepared for the priorietors in 1768. Lots of land excepted from the original patent are shown along with subsequent divisions with totals of acres in each lot. A description of the Catskill Patent as appears in Beers' 1884 "History of Greene County" is excerpted below:"Catskill Patent: This is the largest and most valuable patent ever granted for lands now entirely within this county. It embraced five...

Scope and Contents This map of the Kiskatom Patent, lying north of the modern hamlet of Palenville in the western part of the Town of Catskill, was prepared by William Cockburn showing its division among three proprietors following the Revolutionary War. The patent was originally granted to Hybartus Livingston and Henry Beekman in 1718 and 1719, first as a grant of 390 acres and subsequently enlarged by 2000 acres. The proprietors of the patent upon its division in 1789 are given as Jacob Schermerhorn or his...