On November 14, 1946, the Carpenters' District Council of Ulster County and Vicinity, the direct predecessor of the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters, was chartered. It began with only a few locals in Kingston and Ellenville, N.Y. The district council, on May 4, 1949, was rechartered as the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters. By the early 1950's the district council represented carpenters in Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster counties. By 1957, the Susquehanna Valley District Council of Carpenters and Lower Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters merged with the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters, extending its jurisdiction to virtually the entire Hudson Valley. In 1974, the Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters consolidated 14 locals, which had emerged after the merger of the three district councils, into three locals: Local 255 of Bloomingburg, Local 258 of Oneonta, and Local 265 of Saugerties. A new local for residential work, Local 245 of Oneonta, was chartered on June 13, 1983.
From the description of Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters records, 1887-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122376916
