Cairo, Town of
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Cairo is a township in Greene County located at the base of the eastern escarpment of the northern Catskill Mountains. Cairo was originally founded as the town of Canton in 1803 from a partition of the towns of Catskill, Coxsackie, and Durham. It is bordered on the north by Durham, Greenville, and Coxsackie, west by Windham and Jewett, and southerly by Hunter and Catskill townships. It is one of only two townships in Greene County which does not have a boundary along the county line. Within the town of Cairo are the hamlets of Cairo, South Cairo, Purling, Acra, Round Top, Woodstock, and Gayhead.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cairo Town Boundaries, 1924
File — Case MSS Vertical File Drawer Three
Identifier: Folder 77
Scope and Contents
File contains a letter of Arnold Chapman, Deputy State Engineer, to Herbert Bogardus, Supervisor of the Town of Cairo, forwarding a detailed description of the surveyed boundaries of the Town of Cairo.
Courtney W. Tolley Collection
Collection — Box LOB 35
Identifier: MSS 2019.0016
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the wartime correspondence of Courtney W. Tolley totalling approximately 40 letters along with a scrapbook which contains several wartime snapshots and news clippings as well as a wide selection of ephemera related to commemoration events for the 77th Division and survivors of the 306th Machine Gun Battalion. Also included is a typewritten transcription of Courtney Tolley's letters in blue covers with a steel ACCO binding.
Found in:
Vedder Research Library
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Courtney W. Tolley Collection
Record of the Cairo Presbyterian Church [Staff Transcript], 1822 - 1868
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3361
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series is meant to be a representative listing of published vital statistics materials for churches in Greene County currently available at the Vedder Research Library.