Local history collection, 1850-1978.

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Local history collection, 1850-1978.

Local history collection, 1850-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155514846

Materials pertaining to the history of Pawling and vicinity including clippings, articles, fact sheets, reminiscences, biographies, pamphlets, almanacs, postcards, photographs, and programs, 1850-1977. Subjects include Pawling, Quaker Hill, Revolutionary War, prominent individuals, genealogy, churches, schools, the Starlight Theater, and Dutchess County in the Civil War. Other items include street, highway, topographical, and zoning maps of Pawling and Dutchess County, 1850-1978; Beers atlas for the Hudson River Valley, 1891; typescript copies prepared by Clifford M. Buck, ca. 1966, of deeds and mortgages of the Beekman Precinct, the Beekman tax lists for 1717-1788, and the 1850 and 1865 census returns for the Town of Pawling; and typescript copy prepared by Clifford M. Buck of the diary of Abbie Jane Leach Landis (1837-1905), 1852-1883, concerning her move to Quaker Hill in 1853, family life, Quaker services and other churches attended, her marriage to S.J. Landis in 1862, her children, deaths of her parents, and other events.

ca. 1 linear ft.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory