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 31 Collections and/or Records:
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...