Proper place for historic registry of New Paltz slaves sparks controversy
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the town clerk kept a record of the community’s slaves.
Local History
Woodstock Festival site added to national register of historic places
The Sullivan County site, now home to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, is 10 miles west of Monticello on Rt. 17B and over 50 miles southwest of the festival’s namesake town. In August 1969, more than 400,000 people traveled to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for the now-famous three-day music festival.
Historic house tour along “The First Highway” in New Paltz
Saturday, June 3: Now’s your chance to step inside seven of the town’s most unusual and important houses and farms. Each year, the Wallkill Valley Land Trust conducts its popular and well researched “Houses on the Land” Historic House Tour, and each year the sites visited are thematically linked and impressive.
Wallkill Valley Land Trust’s 2017 Historic House Tour is first to focus on New Paltz
This town and its environs are packed to the gills with old buildings with incredible stories to tell.
New Paltz Historic Preservation Commission co-sponsors exhibit at Elting Library
Historic Preservation Commission members thought an exhibit of art portraying local architectural treasures might inspire people to take a new perspective of their surroundings, and perhaps appreciate them more.
USO Show and World War II encampment at FDR site in Hyde Park
Friday-Sunday, May 26-28: Period military vehicles and collections of military uniforms, weapons and insignia from 1917 to the present day will be on display.
Artist illuminates lost reservoir communities
Artist Kate McGloughlin’s show, “Requiem for Ashokan — The Story told in Landscape,” will be on view June 3-24 at WAAM, and will include mixed media paintings, solarplate etchings, maps with audio files, and an artist book depicting the loss of home, community, and landscape that took place during the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir.
Marybeth De Filippis takes the helm at Historic Huguenot Street
“Huguenot Street deserves to be an international destination. It’s unique in America.”
Native American wigwam under construction on Huguenot St. in New Paltz
Historic Huguenot Street is constructing a replica Munsee Native American wigwam to celebrate the 340th anniversary of the signing of the 1677 land agreement between the Munsee Esopus sachems and the Huguenot refugees.
State Police, founded by a Kingstonian, celebrates centennial
The history of the troopers originates with a spectacular crime, a 1913 robbery/murder in Westchester County of a construction foreman delivering a payroll. The victim was able to identify his three assailants before dying from multiple gunshot wounds, but owing to the lack of a local police force, they escaped, never to be apprehended.