Subject file, 1758-1982, 1908-1982 (bulk)

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Subject file, 1758-1982, 1908-1982 (bulk)

Almanacs, articles, clippings, programs, booklets, letters, brochures, directories, reports, photographs, receipts, postcards, and other material concerning the Town of Lloyd, the villages of Highland and New Paltz, the Hudson River, and other Ulster County locations. Subjects include the Apple Blossom Festival, cemeteries, churches, the Sloop Clearwater, the Delaware and Hudson Canal, lighthouses, the Highland Library, organizations, railroads, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II. Items of note include a 1784 letter concerning the hiring of a teacher; deeds, leases, lot surveys, estate papers, and other legal papers of local residents, 1758-1934; family letters, 1841-1901, some from Highland people and some from relatives who had moved West; and two diaries of Eliza L. Perkins of Highland, N.Y., 1879-1880, concerning housework, cutting grapes, family affairs, and social life.

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Lloyd (N.Y. : Town). Town Historian.

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Apple Blossom Festival (Ulster County, N.Y.)

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Clearwater (Sloop)

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Highland Free Library (Highland, N.Y.)

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Perkins, Eliza L.

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