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Saugerties, New York Location in Ulster County and the state of New York.
Location in Ulster County and the state of New York.
Saugerties / s rtiz, s tiz/ is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States.
The Town of Saugerties contains the Village of Saugerties in the northeast corner of Ulster County.
Route 9 - W and New York State Route 32 pass through the town, converging at the center of the village and overlapping to the south.
These routes alongside the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), which passes through the town just west of the village.
7 Communities and locations in the Town of Saugerties He had secured a title from the Esopus Sachem to this lands sometime before 1663. Volge likely left the region at the outbreak of the first Esopus War in 1658. The "footpath to Albany" was not laid out until 1670. In April 1677 Governor Edmund Andros purchased territory from the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan tribe for the price of a piece of cloth, a blanket, some coarse fiber, a loaf of bread, and a shirt. The Mynderse House was assembled by John Persen, formerly of Kingston, an early foundry owner, around 1685. The camp on the west side of the river became known as West Camp in the Town of Saugerties.
During the American Revolution, a British Squadron lay anchor at Saugerties from October 18 22, 1777, while raiding parties burned Clermont and Belvedere, athwart the Hudson River.
The town was organized from the town of Kingston on April 5, 1811. At that time the hamlet of Saugerties contained twenty-one homes. The village was incorporated in 1831 as "Ulster," and changed its name to "Saugerties" in 1855. In 1832, blue contemporary was quarried in close-by Toodlum (now Veteran).At one time, 2,000 men were working in quarrying, dressing and shipping about one and a half million dollars' worth of blue contemporary annually from Glasco, Malden, and Saugerties.
By 1870, the populace of the town of Saugerties was about 4000. In the early hours of November 9, 1879, the steamer Ansonia of the Saugerties Line ran against the Lighthouse dock on its return trip from New York, smashing the paddle wheel.
Finger, and James and William Maxwell started the "Saugerties and New York Steamboat Company". In 1892, the steamboats M.
Martin and Tremper appeared at Saugerties at the same time, and collided near the lighthouse as each tried to get to the dock first.
IN 1903, the steamboat Saugerties, burned to the waterline and the charred remains were scuttled in the cove north of the lighthouse.
In April 1910, the Esopus Creek flooded the village of Saugerties.
In 1992, the Kiwanis Club of Saugerties took over sponsorship of the festival and moved it to Cantine Field where the festival is held on the last full weekend of every September.
In 1994, Saugerties was the home of the Woodstock '94 music festival, held on the 25th anniversary of the initial Woodstock Festival.
Saugerties is just 9 miles (14 km) east of the town of Woodstock, New York.
The initial festival was held some 46 miles (74 km) west-southwest of the town of Woodstock (on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York), while the 1999 festival in Rome, NY was 106 miles (171 km) away from Woodstock.
Slabsides is a log cabin assembled by John Burroughs in 1895 one mile (1.6 km) east of Riverby, his home in West Park, New York.
In 1888 Saugerties harbor was dredged to advancement access to the Esopus Creek.
The Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy was established in 1985 with the mission to restore and maintain the lighthouse.
The town has a total region of 100.0 square miles (176.2 km ), of which, 64.5 square miles (167.2 km ) is territory and 3.5 square miles (9.0 km ) of it (5.13%) is water (United States Enumeration Bureau statistics).
The north town line is the border of Greene County, New York, and the east town line, marked by the Hudson River, is the border of Dutchess and Columbia counties.
Esopus Creek enters the Hudson River south of Saugerties village.
The Band resided in a home known as 'Big Pink' in West Saugerties while recording The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan) in 1967.
Asbury A hamlet near the north town line, bordering the town of Catskill.
Canoe Hill A hamlet north of Saugerties village.
Eavesport A hamlet on Route 9 - W north of Saugerties village.
Fish Creek A hamlet southwest of Saugerties village.
Glasco A hamlet in the southeast part of the town by the Hudson River.
Glenerie A hamlet in the southeast part of the town on Route 9 - W.
High Woods A hamlet in the southwest part of the town south of Fish Creek and West of Mount Marion.
Katsbaan A hamlet northwest of Saugerties village, positioned on County Route 34.
Malden-on-Hudson A hamlet by the Hudson River, north of Saugerties village.
Manorville a hamlet north of West Saugerties and south of the Greene county hamlet of Palenville Saugerties The Village of Saugerties is positioned in the easterly part of the town on Route 9 - W.
Saugerties South A hamlet south of Saugerties village.
Shultis Corners A hamlet in the southwest part of the town at the intersection of Glasco Turnpike and State Route 212.
Veteran (aka Toodlum) A hamlet west of Saugerties village.
West Saugerties A hamlet near the west town line, west of Blue Mountain, near Platte Clove.
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"Timeline", Saugerties Lighthouse Town of Saugerties, NY Village of Saugerties, NY Municipalities and communities of Ulster County, New York, United States Denning Esopus Gardiner Hardenburgh Hurley Kingston Lloyd Marbletown Marlborough New Paltz Olive Plattekill Rochester Rosendale Saugerties Shandaken Shawangunk Ulster Wawarsing Woodstock Ellenville New Paltz Saugerties Accord Clintondale Cragsmoor East Kingston Gardiner Glasco High Falls Highland Hillside Hurley Kerhonkson Lake Katrine Lincoln Park Malden-on-Hudson Marlboro Milton Napanoch Phoenicia Pine Hill Plattekill Port Ewen Rifton Rosendale Hamlet Saugerties South Shokan Stone Ridge Tillson Walker Valley Wallkill Watchtower West Hurley Woodstock Zena Tremper Olivebridge Oliverea Palentown Seager Shady Spring Glen Sundown Tabasco Veteran West Park West Saugerties West Shokan Willow
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