Community

Local History

Columbia County in the World War (WWI)

New York State Historical Photos & Newspapers hosted by Old Fulton NY Post Card Website

A history of the Mahican Indians, on the First Nations website

 

Pennsylvania History, The Livingston Indian Records 1666-1723

Robert Livingston (1654-1728) was Secretary for Indian Affairs. Most of the original documents from which this book is derived are located at the Brooklyn Historical Society.

 

Read the ‘The Picturesque Hudson (1909)hosted on www.archive.org

 

Roeliff Jansen Kill

Mention of John Beatty in 1714, as surveyor for Robert Livingston, he laid out Livingston’s Manor along the Hudson River on both sides of Roelof Johnson’s Kill

 

Aboriginal place names along the Roeliff Jansen Kill

 

Court case results for NYS’s seizure of the land for the Fish Hatchery on the Roeliff Jansen Kill – Page 174

 

1909 Report mentioning results at the Fish Hatchery on the Roeliff Jansen Kill – Page 237

 

Electricity Comes To Germantown (not without problems)
Lutheran Churcn v. Red Hook Light & Power Company

 

New York State Supreme Court case involving a slave 1814

 

Historical Maps

Map of Columbia Cty 1829 D H Burr

 

Map of New York State 1833

 

Map of Columbia Cty 1829 J W Otley

 

Greene, Ulster, Columbia, Dutchess counties 1891 F. W. Beers

 

Greene, Columbia counties 1891 F. W. Beers

 

Map Collections

Historical Maps of New York hosted by College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Alabama

 

The David Rumsey Map Collection
Some of these maps may be downloaded