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:
Niagara Fire Insurance Company Map of the Village of Athens, 1886
Item — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001.0001
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Record of the Dutch Reformed Church at Athens, 1826 - 1886
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3354
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.
Record of Trinity Episcopal Church at Athens, 1835 - 1893
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3354
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.
Record of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Marriages [Staff Photocopy of Original], 1900 - 1920
Item — Genealogical Shelves Bay One
Identifier: 2004.3359
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.
Records of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2020.0012
Scope and Contents
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...
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the Village of Athens, 1895
Item — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001.0002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the Village of Athens, 1895
Item — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001.0003
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the Village of Athens, 1912
Item — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001.0004
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the Village of Athens, 1923
Item — Box Manuscript Oversize Box 2
Identifier: MSS 2021.0001.0004
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Survey of the Loonenburg New Purchase Road
Item — Case Flat File Drawer 11
Identifier: MAP 2020.0011
Scope and Contents
Map is a survey composed by John D. Spoor for Isaac Northrop and Company in 1801 showing a newly surveyed road leading northwest from the edge of the surveyed lots of the proposed Village of Athens. The Road is shown as commencing at the river and proceeding westward through the surveyed lots (now modern Second Street) and then proceeding along a route northwest (along the route of modern Schoharie Turnpike) towards the home of Johannis Hallenbeck. Description notes that at the Hallenbeck house...