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History of the Town
Contact:
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Carleton Mabee
Town Historian
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(845) 255-1968
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call for information
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Historical Societies
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Community
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Telephone
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Gardiner Historical Society
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Gardiner
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(845) 255-9675
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Gardiner-Shawangunk Historical Society
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Wallkill
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(845) 895-3986
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The Huguenot Historical Society
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New Paltz
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(845) 255-1660
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Ulster County Historical Society
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Marbletown
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(845) 338-5614
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The Hudson Valley History Project: Gardiner
Launched in 2006, the goal of the Hudson Valley History Project: Gardiner is to preserve the personal histories of
Gardiner's longest standing residents. Each of these Story Subjects has lived in
Gardiner for at least 50 years. The project's coordinators have enlisted the services of local writers to document and edit these special stories. Click here to read the stories.
Welcome
The
town of Gardiner is a minor civil division located in southern Ulster
County. Based on the 2000 federal Census, the population of the
town of Gardiner is approximately 5,238 persons with approximately 45
square miles of land and water surface area. Â The average density
is about 116 persons per square mile.
The
town is situated on the outer fringe of the New York metropolitan area. It is approximately equidistant from the Hudson River
cities of Kingston, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie and approximately 75
miles north of New York City. The landscape varies from vertical
rock cliffs and evergreen forests of the Shawangunk Mountains to the
basins and broad floodplains of the Wallkill River, Shawangunk Kill and
Mara Kill streams.
Gardiner Fire A Mystery
The
future looked promising for this little village. No one that day would
have dreamed that Friday’s newspapers would carry a headline “Gardiner
Village Devastated By Fire�.  It was Thursday, May 21, 1925.
Gardiner would never be the same.
Read the entire story.
These
black-and-white photographs are taken from the archives of the Library
of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Â The
original photographs were likely taken by photographers employed by the
WPA during the Great Depression.
 The house shown on the
“Home� page is the Matthew J. LeFevre house, also known as the John A.
LeFevre house (ca. 1772), located on the northwesterly side of NY Route
208 near the Kettleborough Schoolhouse (ca. 1835). The photo likely
dates from 1933-1936. Â
The house shown above is simply
labelled the Deyo-Bevier House, Ireland Corners, presumably the same
stone house still located on the westerly side of NY Route 208 approx.
600 feet north of the intersection with US Route 44-55.
The
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) operates under congressional
authority from the Historic Sites Act of 1935 to document historic
structures and make available to the public an archive of records of
America's architectural heritage. For over sixty years HABS, the oldest
federal preservation program, has played a leading role in preservation
through documentation.
In 1933 the National Park Service,
Department of the Interior established HABS as a make-work program for
architects, draftsmen and photographers left jobless by the Great
Depression. Its mission then, as today, was to create a lasting archive
of America's historic architecture. In so doing, HABS provided a data
base of primary source material for the then fledgling historic
preservation movement.
In 1934 the National Park Service entered
into an agreement with the Library of Congress and the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) as cosponsors of the HABS program. Under
this tripartite agreement the National Park Service administers the
operations of HABS with funds appropriated by Congress and supplemented
by donations from individuals, foundations, historical organizations,
and other local, state and federal agencies.
For more information about HABS, click here
Ulster County Poorhouse
The
Ulster County Poorhouse (ca 1827-1954) was located along Libertyville
Road on the Wallkill River~near the Town of Gardiner-Town of New Paltz
boundary line. The land is now occupied by the Ulster County Fair and
Ulster County Pool Complex. To read more about a recent comprehensive
historical examination of Ulster County's Underprivileged click here
The town historian is a volunteer position appointed each year by the Town Board at the annual meeting.
The
current town historian is Carleton Mabee. There is also a newly-formed
Gardiner Historical Society which meets monthly.The Ulster County
Poorhouse (ca 1827-1954) was located along Libertyville Road on the
Wallkill River~near the Town of Gardiner-Town of New Paltz boundary
line. The land is now occupied by the Ulster County Fair and Ulster
County Pool Complex. To read more about a recent comprehensive
historical examination of Ulster County's Underprivileged click here
The town historian is a volunteer position appointed each year by the Town Board at the annual meeting.
The current town historian is Carleton Mabee. There
is also a newly-formed Gardiner Historical Society which meets
monthly.The Ulster County Poorhouse (ca 1827-1954) was located along
Libertyville Road on the Wallkill River~near the Town of Gardiner-Town
of New Paltz boundary line. The land is now occupied by the Ulster
County Fair and Ulster County Pool Complex. To read more about a recent
comprehensive historical examination of Ulster County's Underprivileged
click here
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