Durham, Town of
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Durham township was originally settled in the 1750s while still a part of the district of Coxsackie in old Albany County. Partition from Coxsackie in 1790 as the Town of Freehold, Durham was renamed in honor of Durham, Connecticut where many of its earliest settlers hailed from in 1805. The oldest settlements in Durham are at Oak Hill, which predates the Revolutionary War, and at Meeting House Hill near the present hamlet of Durham which dates immediately following the end of the Revolution. Situated at the junction of the Windham and Susquehanna Turnpikes, the town of Durham prospered from its location along some of the region's main highways in the earliest days of the Republic. A portion of Durham was allocated to the town of Conesville in Schoharie County, and today it is bounded on the north by Westerlo and Rennselaerville [Albany County], on the west by Conesville [Schoharie County] and Windham, on the South by Windham and Cairo, and on the east by Greenville. Durham contains the hamlets of Durham, Oak Hill, Cornwallville, Durso Corner, East Durham, East Windham, Hervey Street, Mount Pisgah, Sunside, West Durham, and South Durham.
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Stiefel Laboratories Collection
Collection — Box MSS Box 350: Series Folder 4; Series Folder 5; Series Folder 6; Series Folder 7; Series Folder 8; Series Folder 9; Series Folder 10; Series Folder 11; Series Folder 12; Series Folder 13
Identifier: MSS 2021.0022
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises a small selection of documents related to Stiefel Labs and their lines of products and services as offered from the mid-1960s through the 1990s. Also included are an assortment of news clippings, a trade magazine detailing Stiefel Lab's buyout of a soap manufacturer, biographies of upper management, and a description of the research facility at Oak Hill. Photographic materials from this collection which include scenes of their original Oak Hill plant, groundbreaking...