| New York (Putnam County), Brewster — Brewster Veterans Memorial |
| | Dedicated to All From
Brewster / Southeast
Who Served in the Armed Forces
Of the United States of America
During Time of Conflict
September 30, 2007
Designed by John Degnan and John Folchetti
Committee
Denis Castelli – Chairman
Thomas Acerno • Todd Atkinson • Amy Campanaro • Michael Cesare • Margaret Fowler • Louis Gasparini • Jack Gress • Arthur Hanley • Michael Santos • Greg Wunner
Brewster – Carmel Garden Club
Unilock, Inc.
With Special Thanks To
Pat . . . — Map (db m25314) |
| New York (Putnam County), Brewster — Chancellor Kent |
| | James Kent, Chief Justice of New York, author of “Commentaries on American Law” was born on a site to the West, July 31, 1763 Landmarks Preservation Society 1947 Marker Lost Duplicated 1988 — Map (db m24657) |
| New York (Putnam County), Brewster — Old Southeast Cemetery — Oldest marked grave in Putnam County |
| | Historical Landmark
Old Southeast Cemetery
Here rest our early settlers and six pastors of Southeast Church Oldest stone – 1751 • Dedicated June 1970 Southeast Museum Association, Brewster, N.Y. — Map (db m24586) |
| New York (Putnam County), Brewster — The Borden Bridge |
| | Across this bridge, during the Civil War, Gail Borden Jr.’s New York Condensed Milk Company shipped condensed milk to the Union Troops. — Map (db m24511) |
| New York (Putnam County), Carmel — Parade Ground |
| | Here Col. Henry Ludington of Dutchess County Militia drilled his regiment, and mustered them many times to march against the British. — Map (db m526) |
| New York (Putnam County), Carmel — Sibyl Ludington |
| | Sibyl Ludington rode horseback over this road the night of April 26, 1777, to call out Colonel Luddington's regiment to repel the British at Danbury, Conn. — Map (db m525) |
| New York (Putnam County), Garrison — Mandeville’s |
| | This house, built in 1737 was headquarters of Commanders of American troops defending West Point, from 1778 to 1783. — Map (db m20704) |
| New York (Putnam County), Garrison — South Redoubt |
| | One of the fortifications built in 1776 – 1777 to defend the highlands, stood on the hill to the north, above here. New York State Department of Education 1932 Replaced by Putnam County Historian 2001 — Map (db m20701) |
| New York (Putnam County), Kent — Carver Bridge |
| | Carver Bridge Cut stone with wood deck, Timothy Carver, first supervisor of the Town of Carmel, drowned there in 1824. It is now under 50 feet of water one half mile to the south. Allan Warnecke, Historian Town of Carmel 2001 — Map (db m22707) |
| New York (Putnam County), Kent — Daniel Nimham |
| | Daniel Nimham Last sachem of Wappinoe or Wappinger Indians, friend of whites, who sued Adolph Philipse to retrieve land. Had his village here. State Education Department 1932 — Map (db m22704) |
| New York (Putnam County), Kent — Philips Smith Farm |
| | Philips Smith Farm 288 acres, first rented in 1775, then purchased in 1816 through forfeiture land sales for his service in the Revolutionary War; sold by Arthur Smith in 1918. Allan Warnecke, Historian Town of Carmel 2002 — Map (db m22705) |
| New York (Putnam County), Kent — Union Cemetery |
| | Established 1863
Union Cemetery
Two acres purchased, surveyed and dedicated for burials of early area families. Located just south of Foshay’s Corners on the Old Dutchess Turnpike (now Route 301) on lands of Foshay and Halstead farms, incorporated May 28, 1868 as Union Cemetery Association. Ezekiel K. Merritt, Joseph Haight, George Foshay, Henry C. Light, John A. Bennett, John Halstead, and Isaac Bennett were chosen as the first board of trustees. In 1873 some removals, from three . . . — Map (db m22703) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — 1917 “Lest We Forget" 1919 — World War I Memorial |
| | 1917 “Lest We Forget” 1919
Coleman Agor, Jr. • Glenn B. Arnold • Nathan K. Averill • Imlay L. Benet • Lester G. Bennett • James Benson • Louis J. Bittner • Colie Brown • Thurlow Cargain • John S. Carr • H. Ranald Chambers, Jr. • George M. Clark • Robert Clinton • Lester S. Cole • Lewis G. Cole • Stanley Coles • George Collins • Henry C. Davison, Jr. • Louis S. Dean • * Walter DeForest • Michael Donegan • George E. Dougherty • Edward Dunn • Berkeler Enochs • Philip . . . — Map (db m22711) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — 1941 “Lest We Forget” 1945 |
| | 1941 “Lest We Forget” 1945
“In humility before God, and in honor of all who fought and those who died in the Second World War that freedom might live, we gratefully dedicate this stone” — Map (db m22713) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Capt. John Crane |
| | Capt. John Crane of Col. Ludington’s regiment kept a tavern, built 1772, which formerly stood here. He was County Judge and first Town Clerk of Carmel. New York State Education Department 1932 Replaced by Putnam County Historian 2001 — Map (db m22571) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Eleazer Hamblin |
| |
Was the first to settle in Philips Patent, Frederickstown, now Carmel. He came from Harwich on Cape Cod through Norwich, CT to start a homestead here in 1739. Allan Warnecke, Historian Town of Carmel 2001 — Map (db m22570) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — God Bless Our Fallen Soldiers |
| | This Monument is to Honor All Those Who Fought and Died for Our Freedom. Persian-Gulf, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom And All Wars Against Terrorism. Dedicated May 29, 2006 God Bless Our Fallen Soldiers — Map (db m22717) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Knickerbocker Ice |
| | Warehouse stored the ice cut on Lake Mahopac; floated in by canal then loaded on railroad cars and sold in New York City from 1880 until refrigeration began in 1920. — Map (db m22572) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Korean and Vietnam War Monument — In Dedication |
| | In Dedication To Those Who Fought and To Those Who Died in the Service of Their Country
Korean War
June 27, 1950 – July 27, 1954
Vietnam War
July 4, 1965 – March 29, 1973 — Map (db m22714) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Railroad Station |
| | The railroad came to Mahopac in 1871 and the first station was built in 1880. By 1930 Route 6 construction moved it to Bucks Hollow Road, used until 1969. Mahopac American Legion Post 1080 2001 — Map (db m22590) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Sibyl Ludington |
| | Sibyl Ludington Rode horseback over this road the night of April 26, 1777, to call out Colonel Ludington’s regiment to repel British at Danbury, Connecticut. State Education Department 1935 — Map (db m22592) |
| New York (Putnam County), Mahopac — Thompson House |
| | Started as a hat factory, then a boarding house in 1851. It was rebuilt to hold 400 guests after a fire in 1869. Emerson Clark improved Hotel Mahopac in 1883. — Map (db m22573) |
| New York (Putnam County), Nelsonville — Connecticut Line |
| | Troops were encamped in this valley on both sides of the brook during the winter of 1780 – 1781. — Map (db m20696) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Christ Church — Patterson 200 Years |
| | Christ Church (Episcopal) 1763
Christ Church was organized as the “Episcopal Mission at Fredericksburgh” by three former English officers who settled in the area after the end of the French and Indian War. Although the present building is the newest in the District, the site itself has been occupied since 1763, when the land on which the original log structure and the burying ground were located was set aside by Beverly Robinson and his wife Susanah from their part of the . . . — Map (db m24878) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — District School No. 1 — Patterson 200 Years |
| | District School No. 1 (Patterson School) 1857 – 1912
At the time of the Revolution, a school was located near this site on land donated by Edmond Ogden, the husband of Sybil Ludington. At that time the education of children was a local affair, affordable only by the more well-to-do families, and the school was supported by fifteen patrons out of their own resources.
Starting in 1795, the State Legislature began experimenting with a number of ways of providing some . . . — Map (db m24812) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Fredericksburg |
| |
During the Revolutionary War this was Fredericksburg & the main military crossroad. Gen. Washington’s Army camped here Sept. to Nov. 1778 — Map (db m24544) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Historic District — Patterson 200 Years |
| |
The Proposed Historic District
People have lived for a long time in this beautiful valley where a natural trail, running from New England to the Hudson, makes a gentle bend here along the edge of the Great Swamp. Traces have been found nearby of campsites dating back three thousand years. More recently, but still before the arrival of the Europeans, Indian tribes from Connecticut and from the Hudson Valley shared this area as a summer hunting ground. This trail became one of the . . . — Map (db m24942) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Ludington Graves |
| |
Burial site of Revolutionary war heroes, Col. Henry Ludington and his daughter Sybil, who rode to warn the troops on 26 April 1777 — Map (db m24513) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Maple Avenue Cemetery — Patterson 200 Years |
| | Maple Avenue Cemetery
(And Combined Church Cemeteries)
Earliest Recorded Grave, 1792
The Combined Cemeteries At the close of the Revolution, in 1782, when all the lands of Beverly Robinson were seized by the State Legislature and sold at auction, a half-acre parcel on the road from New England to the Hudson in the town of Fredericksburgh was reserved for the Episcopal Church and a burying ground. A portion of this piece of land was the start of the combined cemeteries which . . . — Map (db m24794) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Patterson Baptist Church — Patterson 200 Years |
| | Patterson Baptist Church
(The Rock Church)
1790
The Baptist Church
The following material was adapted from notes put together by Reverend James B.M. Frost, March 1993:
Pelletreau’s “History of Putnam County,” written in the 1880s indicates that about a half mile from the Triangle Inn Corner (now the intersection of N.Y. 311 and N.Y. 292), there was an “…ancient burying ground, the surface which is studded with rough stones which mark graves …the . . . — Map (db m25015) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Patterson Grange No. 939 — Patterson 200 Years |
| | Patterson
Grange No. 939
(Original Charter Patterson Grange No. 237)
1874
The country was on the brink of a depression, and the power of the railroads dominated the post Civil War economy when farmers from the Midwest and the Northeast established the Grange in 1869. Five years later, in September 1874, membership was around 1.5 million nationwide in 20,000 local branches, when the first Patterson Grange, No. 237, met upstairs at the building now on Route 311 and Front Street. . . . — Map (db m24811) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Patterson Veterans Monument — The War Monument |
| | [ south face ]
Roll Of Honor
1917 – 1918
Town Of Patterson
Major Albert N. Towner • Major Charles B. Crane • Capt. John Towner • Lieut. Robert A. Johnston • Sergt. Daniel B. Brandon • Sergt. Lucius G. Pendleton • Sergt. Charles E. Hawley • Sergt. Arthur Hansen • Bugler Paul W. Townsend • Rev. Henry F. Watts, Y.M.C.A.
Privates
James E. Smith • Roscoe Winship • * Harold Ett • Hudson L. Ritch • Herbert Smith • De Bone Alosandro • William . . . — Map (db m24940) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — Putnam County |
| | Named for General Israel Putnam, commander of American forces in the Hudson Highlands during the American Revolution. — Map (db m24517) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — The Fellowship Hall — Patterson 200 Years |
| | The Fellowship Hall
(Presbyterian Church “Parish House”)
1872
Originally called “The Parish House,” the Fellowship Hall was given to the Presbyterian Church by the Paterson Family between 1868 and 1877 while the Reverend James Baird was minister. It was built on part of the land which had been purchased by the trustees from Thomas Townsend and his wife in 1793. That purchase included, in addition to a quarter of an acre on the other side of the road . . . — Map (db m24810) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — The Presbyterian Church — Patterson 200 Years |
| | The Presbyterian Church
(Of Patterson / Pawling)
Present Structure, 1838
This beautiful building is the third church of the Presbyterian Congregation in Patterson. The first, often referred to as “The Old Meeting House” was located west of here, on top of the hill, north of the Triangle Inn Corner. It was established by tenants on Philipse land, settlers from Connecticut, and is probably the meeting house referred to in the description of the Prendergast Rebellion . . . — Map (db m24809) |
| New York (Putnam County), Patterson — The War Monument — Patterson 200 Years |
| | The War Monument (World War I) 1917 – 1918
The Monument Patterson was still a quiet country town at the beginning of the First World War. Although the State had begun to assume responsibility for the major roads through the area, three-way intersections like this one, more typical of wide turning horse-drawn wagons than automobiles, with triangular islands in the middle were still common. There was electric power in town and some people had telephones, but in many ways . . . — Map (db m24938) |
| New York (Putnam County), Philipstown — Army Camp — ½ Mile → |
| | While West Point defences were being built 1781 the Connecticut Line encamped along the brook. — Map (db m20700) |
| New York (Putnam County), Philipstown — Arnold’s Flight |
| | At Beverley Dock, at the foot of this lane, Arnold, exposed as a traitor, fled by boat to the British ship Vulture, off Croton Point. — Map (db m20687) |
| New York (Putnam County), Philipstown — Connecticut Camps |
| | On the hill west of the brook are remains of hut sites, oven, etc., made by New England troops guarding West Point, 1778 – 1783. — Map (db m20697) |
| New York (Putnam County), Philipstown — Sugar Loaf |
| | On the north slope of this hill was one of the forts built, 1776 – 1777 to defend the highlands, from Connecticut to New Jersey. — Map (db m20710) |
| New York (Putnam County), Philipstown — The First Chain |
| | Planned to keep British ships from going up river, anchored on shore below, was forced by the enemy Oct. 7, 1777. — Map (db m20693) |
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