Timeline Shawangunk  1800-1900

  1.  1804
    1804 - The son studied medicine with Dr. James G. Graham, of Shawangunk, and at- 180 THE PIONEERS OF UTICA. tended lectures in New York. He came to Utica in 1804, and formed a partnership in practice with Dr. Alexander Coventry, he occupying the office on ...
     

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  2.  1806
    1806 - Established in 1806, the town of Wawarsing is located in the beautiful Shawangunk Mountains in Ulster County. The town is comprised of many small hamlets, as well as the village of Ellenville. The abundance of mountain streams provided electricity to run factories ...
     

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  3.  1809
    1809 - In 1809, Sullivan County was split off from Ulster County. During the American Civil War volunteers were recruited from the more affluent families of the County to form the 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. GeographyLake Minnewaska Ulster County ...
     

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  4.  1815
    Nov 21, 1815 - It. ., . ;1 FA It M S. TWO excellent and very valuable l , situate in Shawangunk, in the county of Ulster, and state of New-York, are offered for The one lying, on the banks of the Wallkill, in that part of the town of Shawangunk called New-Hurley, about twelve miles distant from ...
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  5.  1823
    1823 - This was erected from Montgomery in 1823, is the west half of tlie old town, bounds on Sullivan county, and its ori- ginal settlement treated of in connection with Montgomery. The name was from an old, numerous and respectable fami- ly of the name of Crawford, of ...
     

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  6.  1824
    1824 - Born in Blooming Grove, New York, Tuthill attended common and private schools. He moved with his parents to Shawangunk, New York, in 1824. He engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits.
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  7.  1830
    1830 - It is said he was quite an influential man, and he, with others, projected, in 1830, a turnpike from ElJenville to Woodbourne, which was built eight years after. In this connection there appears a tragedy. In Quin- lan's Hist, of Sul. Co., NY; and also in the ...
     

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  8.  1833
    1833 - Pop. 3418. Bloomingsburg, upon the eastern foot of the Shawangunk mountain, on the Newburg and Cochecton turnpike, 13 miles SE. from Monticello, incorporated in 1833, has about 60 dwellings. Wurtsbo- rough on the canal, 43 miles from Eddy ville, and 11 ...
     

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  9.  1840
    Sep 20, 1840 - Corporal, Co. C 124th Regt. Was born in Shawangunk, Ulster County on Sept. 20, 1840, the son of Gilbert and Sarah M Terwilliger.
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  10.  1842
    May 1842 - born in the town of Shawangunk, on the llth of May, 1842. His father, Levi H. Terwilliger, also a native of Ulster county, was there reared and spent his entire life. On reaching manhood he engaged in farming and in the operation of a sawmill, continuing his ...
     

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  11.  1846
    May 14, 1846 - An act to confirm the sale of property to tke New-York insti- tntioo of the deaf and dumb." ^i^An act relative to the Newburgh and Shawangunk plank road company."
     

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  12.  1850
    Mar 24, 1850 - It was incorporated on March 24, 1850 under the state's general incorporation law. The company decided shortly thereafter to build on a southern route; the supporters of a northern route organized the Newburgh and Shawangunk Plank Road two weeks later.
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  13.  1853
    Apr 2, 1853 - GARDINER was formed from Rochester, new Paltz and Shawangunk, April 2, 1853. It was named in honor of Addison Gardiner, formerly Lieut. Governor. It is an interior town, lying south of the center of the County. The surface is rolling in the east and hilly ...
     

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  14.  1861
    1861 - Mohonk Mountain House, located just outside of town, is a glorious 251-room Victorian resort hotel that was built in 1861. Situated on over 2000 acres of lush green forest, this popular lakeside attraction includes gardens, hiking trails and it's very own 9 ...
     

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  15.  1869
    1869 - For years, some visitors to the most famous landmark here, the Mohonk Mountain House, a Victorian castle built in 1869, did not realize they were in the Shawangunks. And others have slighted the Gunks by incorrectly calling them the ''foothills of the Catskills.''
     

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  16.  1872
    Apr 27, 1872 - CITI OF KINGSTON, NY, April 26.-Additional information m regard to the Sres fin the 8 Mountains, from Ellenmlle, saps that a lame 8re is now raging in tho mountains I just south of that village. To- it is racing with unabated violence, and its spread is apprehended. ...
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  17.  1878
    1878 - THE MOHONK HOUSE IN 1878. tion for their work at home. Of the rock formations and The rambles among the huge broken masses of pebbled quartz, called Shawangunk grit, of which the mountain is composed and out of which the finest millstones arc made ...
     

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  18.  1879
    Dec 13, 1879 - The trial of the suit of Henry E. Daboll against the Town of Shawangnuk is going on in the United States Circuit Court, before judge Wallace and a jury. The action is brought for the recovery of about $24000, being the fair value, with interest, on certain bonds issued by the defendant ...
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  19.  1882
    Jan 18, 1882 - The people of the town of Shawangunk, in the south-western part of Ulster County, have lately become somewhat excited over a somewhat anomalous financial ... The present large increase is duo to the various obtained against the town by of the Valley Railway, the town of Shawangunk, ...
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  20.  1884
    Dec 14, 1884 - The fertile farming lands in the town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, and in the town of Crawford, Orange County, are divided by the Wallkill ... across the Wallkill between the towns ox Shawangunk and Crawford was destroyed by a freshet, and communication between the two towns was . ...
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  21.  1887
    1887 - Product Description Originally published in 1887, the author has drawn on a variety of sources to present a history of the Shawangunk region (pronounced "Shon-gum") and its early settlers. Like so many 19th century local histories, this blood-soaked account of ...
     

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  22.  1888
    Feb 22, 1888 - The Ellenville Glass Sand Company has successfully experimented in grinding granite obtained on the long range of the sombre Shawangunk Mountains, and the result promises to revolutionize at least one part of the glasamaking business. The Ellenville Glass Sand Company has successfully ...
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  23.  1889
    Jul 7, 1889 - favorite Summer resorts in the highlands of Ulster, Sullivan, and Delaware Counties were slow in filing up on account of the unfavorable weather, but the rush has now begun, with the prospect that the height of the season will see the region more extensively thronged with visitors than ...
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