Case Flat File Drawer 14
Container
Contains 24 Collections and/or Records:
Layout of Quarry Tracks [Alpha Portland Cement Company], 1914
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2022.0006/7A.5
Scope and Contents
This map shows the layout of temporary rails in the quarry of Alpha Cement which moved raw materails to a crusher and storage building adjacent to the quarry site. Precise dimensions and topography of the quarry are illustrated in the blueprint and all buildings are shown and labeled.
Map of a Division of the Loveridge Patent
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2022.0002
Scope and Contents
This survey map showing the extent of the Loveridge Patent is a copy of an original prepared for the benefit of Michael Van Vechten, Alexander MacDowel, Temperance Loveridge, and Hannah Loveridge in 1718. The copy was probably produced in the late 1790s and overlays features from the older original map, including a memorandum explaining the purpose of the subdivision, alongside features which didn't exist when the original was prepared. These additional features include the Catskill Turnpike...
Copy of a map of Lands Under Water at Catskill Granted to John Cantine
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2020.0018-LOB 6.24
Scope and Contents
Map is a blueprint made by Charles H. Van Orden from an original map of John Cantine's grant for Lands Under Water at Catskill Point in 1795. Van Orden's map faithfully copies the complete description and survey, and includes a separate description of "Original allotments by balloting of lots drawn by the seven proprietors December 3, 1805" which probably refers to owners of the divisions of the Lindsey Patent which this grand adjoined. Features of note on the map include the home occupied by...
Map of the Catskill Cement District, 1915
Item — Case: Flat File Drawer 14
Identifier: MAP 2022.0004/7C.23
Scope and Contents
This map illustrates the broad scale of land ownership and infrastructure related to the operations of the Catskill Cement Company, Alsen American Portland Cement Company, and Acme Cement Company in the Town of Catskill. Lands owned by the companies are colored pink, and roads, buildings, rail systems, and water features are clearly delineated.
