Athens, Village of
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Athens is an incorporated village founded in 1805 located originally within the boundaries Catskill township and currently within the boundaries of Athens township [since 1815]. Athens was the first of five villages incorporated in Greene County. The village was surveyed as a planned community at the start of the 19th century and founded within the same vicinity as an existing and sparsely populated dutch agrarian settlement known as "Loonenburg" [spelling varies] originally settled in the 1680s when the region was still a part of southern Albany County.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Records of the Athens Dutch Reformed Church and Athens Trinity Episcopal Church, 1826 - 1893
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3354
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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.