Case Flat File Drawer 11
Container
Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:
Map of a Farm of Prentice W. Hallenbeck [Town of Athens]
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2019.0002-7G.13
Scope and Contents
Item is a single map done in pencil and two colors of ink with damgaged edges.
Map of the Athenian Turnpike Road
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0001
Scope and Contents
Map is two fragments of what was once a much larger multi-page survey map and description of the Turnpike between Athens and Leeds, NY, now modern Leeds-Athens Road. Page one shows the commencement of the turnpike at the Village of Athens, and several buildings are shown along the route. Page two shows the terminus of the turnpike at Madison [Leeds] and marks the location of a toll house. The map was composed by William Tolley on behalf of the proprietors of the Turnpike.
Map of Water Lots of the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Athens
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0002-LOB 6.84
Scope and Contents
This map is a survey probably conducted in the late 1880s or early 1890s showing the lands under water owned by the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Athens. The survey shows the shoreline of the river with names of lot owners given between the corners of modern Market Street and Route 385 northward to Wheat Street and the alley now known as South Street. The location of one ice house is given and drawn to scale.
Map of Lots Adjoining the Hudson River at Athens
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0003-LOB 6.83
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey of the channel of the Hudson River at Athens showing Middle Ground Flats. Of note on the survey is that each dock, wharf, or landing in the Village is marked out with its relative location. These included two docks given as "Shipyard Dock," the slip for the Hudson-Athens Ferry, the Steamboat Dock, Howland's Dock, Vroman's Dock, the buildings of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, D. Whiting's Dock, the "Ice Co.'s Dock" and the Railroad Depot. No features are shown for the east side...
Map of the Division of the Roseboom Patent
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0008
Scope and Contents
Map shows the Roseboom Patent as it existed in 1761. The parcels shown lie between the Hans Vosen Kill and the Potic Creek and border the Loonenburg Patent, Casparus Bronck Patent, and Mathias Houghtaling Patent. Each parcel in the survey is clearly labeled by owner. Buildings are shown within the adjoining Loonenburg Patent as are the homes of Jans Spoor and Isaac Paris within the boundaries of the Roseboom Patent. Names of parcel owners include Jacob Roseboom, Lawrence Boskirk, Nicholas...
Survey of the Loonenburg New Purchase Road
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0011
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey composed by John D. Spoor for Isaac Northrop and Company in 1801 showing a newly surveyed road leading northwest from the edge of the surveyed lots of the proposed Village of Athens. The Road is shown as commencing at the river and proceeding westward through the surveyed lots (now modern Second Street) and then proceeding along a route northwest (along the route of modern Schoharie Turnpike) towards the home of Johannis Hallenbeck. Description notes that at the Hallenbeck house...
Athens Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2020.0010
Scope and Contents
Materials in the collection cover a majority of Athens Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church's 300 year plus history. These are a diverse set of materials incorporating church records, books, historic materials, correspondnece, publications, maps and legal papers. Of particular note are the 113 Glebe Deed documents from the 1780's through the 1820's and other Deeds from 1744 through 1966. There is also a nearly complete run of Church Bulletins from 1929-1974 and 1977-1979 as well as the 1936-1940...