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 30 Collections and/or Records:
Baptism Record of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at Athens [Arthur Kelly Transcription], 1704 - 1899
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3357
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.
Boundary Survey of Lands of Mount Hope Cemetery Association, 2022
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection comprises records of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association of Athens, NY dating from the founding of the Association in 1849. Included in the collection are purchase books with listings of plot owners alongside dates of purchase, as well as some documents concerning land owned by the cemetery and early records of Association Governance. Of particular note are two registers of burials in both Mount Hope Cemetery and Mount Hope Cemetery Annex listing the date of burial, name of the...
Fire Insurance Maps
Collection — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001
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...
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Vedder Research Library
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Fire Insurance Maps
Flint-Van Valkenburg Memorial Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2019.0010
Scope and Contents
The contents of this collection are primarily handwritten documents donated in three separate accessions in 1995, 2010, and 2021 by grandchildren of Orin Q. Flint. Boxes one and two are organized separately in their own chronological arragements, with some overlap covering the lifetime of Orin Flint himself. The Third accession comprises two boxes sorted chronologically containing primarily documents of the Van Valkenburg Family, and the final series comprises the Flint Diaries in chronological...
Map of Lots Adjoining the Hudson River at Athens
Item — Case Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0003-LOB 6.83
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey of the channel of the Hudson River at Athens showing Middle Ground Flats. Of note on the survey is that each dock, wharf, or landing in the Village is marked out with its relative location. These included two docks given as "Shipyard Dock," the slip for the Hudson-Athens Ferry, the Steamboat Dock, Howland's Dock, Vroman's Dock, the buildings of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, D. Whiting's Dock, the "Ice Co.'s Dock" and the Railroad Depot. No features are shown for the east side...
Map of the Athenian Turnpike Road
Item — Case Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0001
Scope and Contents
Map is two fragments of what was once a much larger multi-page survey map and description of the Turnpike between Athens and Leeds, NY, now modern Leeds-Athens Road. Page one shows the commencement of the turnpike at the Village of Athens, and several buildings are shown along the route. Page two shows the terminus of the turnpike at Madison [Leeds] and marks the location of a toll house. The map was composed by William Tolley on behalf of the proprietors of the Turnpike.
Map of Water Lots of the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Athens
Item — Case Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0002-LOB 6.84
Scope and Contents
This map is a survey probably conducted in the late 1880s or early 1890s showing the lands under water owned by the Knickerbocker Ice Company at Athens. The survey shows the shoreline of the river with names of lot owners given between the corners of modern Market Street and Route 385 northward to Wheat Street and the alley now known as South Street. The location of one ice house is given and drawn to scale.
Marriage Record of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at Athens, NY and St. Paul's Lutheran Church at West Camp, NY [Arthur Kelly Transcription], 1705 - 1899
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3358
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.
Municipal Minutes and Ordinances of the Village of Athens
Collection — Manuscript Shelves
Identifier: MSS 2020.0011
Scope and Contents
The Minutes Books and Ordinances of the Village of Athens contain the proceedings of the Village Government dating to its first recorded meeting in 1805. All decisions and relevant disucssions had during proceedings of the Village Government are recorded in these ledgers, as are names of present officers. Interestingly, the locations of meetings are also recorded as are various decisions regarding early licenscing and economic development efforts.
Nellie McKnight Athens History Scrapbook One, 1928 - 1930
Item — LOB 9
Identifier: Item One
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook compiled by Athens Town Historian Nellie McKnight contains newsclippings on contemporary events related to social and civic activities in the Village of Athens. Also included within are articles on businesses and local history under the given year they were published. Each year is neatly delineated with an index of subjects for every clipped article contained within.