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Scope and Contents Ledger contains maps corresponding to descriptions of deeds filed at the Greene County Clerk's office for lands on the east side of Catskill Creek covering the neighborhoods of lower/middle Main Street and Catskill Point. Original Deed descriptions commence apparently with purchases by John Cantine around 1795, and each described patent or parcel contains a chain of custody for subsequent divisions of each lot dating forward to the 1870s. Terms used to describe features in the original patents...

Scope and Contents The collection comprises primarily family letters and ephemera relating to the Becker and Allen families of Catskill, a considerable share of these materials relate directly to the life and career of Mary Becker, a nurse employed for many years at the Catskill Hospital. other notable materials within include: a selection of letters by and concerning the life Samuel Allen, a former resident of Catskill who moved west to California in the 1870s to become a miner; papers and biographical materials...

Scope and Contents This collection comprises several decades worth of news clippings, photographs, and promotional flyers for athletic programs and events in the Village of Catskill as compiled by Orliff Heath. The earliest materials relate to sports teams at Catskill High School in the early 1900s as well as the 16th Separate Company basketball team at the Catskill Armory, but the majority of clippings relate to Catskill High School's various varsity teams from the 1930s to the 1980s. Of particular note are...

Scope and Contents Item is a bound ledger containing the accounts of various residents of the Village of Catskill with Charles L. Beach and Company for deliveries of Coal. It appears that accounts were both for residential users and businesses. An alphabetical index of all account holders appears at the front of the ledger. On pages 415 to 422 appear what seems to be an account possibly of coal useage or sales from the Steamboat Redfield, and a separate account follows for the "McManus Hay Dock."

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...

Scope and Contents Map is a blueprint of a survey by Charles H. Van Orden showing measurements and headings for a survey of the first and second divisions of the Lindsey Patent. This map, which is an alternate description of MAP 2020.0016, gives the initials of original owners of the lots in both divisions as well as the lot numbers, but provides no narrative description of the Patent nor a cardinal point to orient it. This was likely meant to be read in conjunction with MAP 2020.0016 and was probably also made...

Scope and Contents Map is a blueprint copy by Charles H. Van Orden of an earlier map once in the possession of Theodore A. Cole. The Lindsey Patent was the original grant covering the east side of the Village of Catskill confirmed in 1738. The First division of 10 lots was made in in 1741, and a second division comprising 20 lots was made the same year. The Map shows the first and second divisions as well as some geographic and manmade features for reference. The Hudson River comprises the eastern boundary, the...

Content Description Contents are primarily photographic materials and documents concerning Amos Post, Inc. of Catskill, NY. Included also is a scrapbook by Edith S. Wilson as a graduate of Catskill High School class of 1947.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises a selection of fire insurance maps by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company and Niagara Fire Insurance Company. The maps cover the villages of Athens, Catskill, and Coxsackie and show street and building plans with miscellaneous descriptive data used to aid in the identification of insured properties and structures. These maps were originally on file with the local agents for these respective companies, and were donated to the Greene County Historical Society...

Scope and Contents Map is a color-coded survey by John Van Vechten of the subdivided lots along the west side of Main Street in the Village of Catskill probably before 1820. No buildings are shown but street names are given as well as the initials of those who owned each respective lot shown. In one instance a lot is described as being "Fulton's Mill Lot" while Bridge Street is only shown as comprising the stretch of that road from Main to the Bridge itself. The uphill or easterly portion of modern Bridge Street...