The Old Landing Towns
Athens, Coxsackie, New Balimore, and Coeymans are towns that
thrived during the 1900s. Each town was a busy port for industries like brick making, ice harvesting, shipbuilding, metalworking, and barrel making.
The . . . — — Map (db m283121) HM
This African Methodist Episcopal Congregation was established in 1853 by free &
formerly enslaved people of Coxsackie. Church built 1856. — — Map (db m175175) HM
Prior to the Revolutionary War, burial
sites were unprotected, reused, unmarked, frequently disturbed and for other purposes such as agriculture. In the 1790s Americans reconsided how and where the dead were buried. This Bronck Burying Ground is . . . — — Map (db m178792) HM
In 1663, in what was then New Netherlands, Pieter Bronck and his wife Hilletje Jans built the stonehouse. Leonard Bronck, who used the Americanized version of Leendert, was the great grandson of Pieter and the son of Jan Leendert Bronck. Leonard was . . . — — Map (db m176702) HM
The Bronks, like many Dutch families, had deep roots in the Colony of New York.
The transfer of their loyalty from the Dutch to the English and then to the
Revolutionary government had been relatively smooth. By the beginning of the the . . . — — Map (db m176706) HM
This homestead
has been in the Bronk
family since its erection
in 1663 and is given by its
present owner to the
Greene County
Historical Society
in memory of his mother
Adelaide Ely Bronk Lampman
The lower marker reads: . . . — — Map (db m313939) HM
Bronck House
Has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the history of the . . . — — Map (db m313940) HM
At this site in May 1775, the
Broncks signed the Coxsackie
Declaration opposing the
"Oppressive Acts of the
British Parliament." — — Map (db m176698) HM
Under date of May 17, 1775, more than 220 “Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Cocksakie District in the County of Albany" put their names or marks to a document known to them as
"The Association,” popularly called “The Coxsackie Declaration.” . . . — — Map (db m176704) HM
1941 In Memory Of 1945
Those Who Gave Their Lives In
World War II
Albright, Donald C.
Ames, Milton H.
Ballieul, Ferdinand A.
Hallenbeck, Lawrence E.
Hallenbeck, W. Harding
Hotaling, Earl O.
Irving, John D.
Mattice, Lawrence C. . . . — — Map (db m150302) WM
George H. Scott
Organizer and leader of
Volunteer firemen
First President
Greene County Firemen's Assn.
1889
Tri-county Firemen's Assn.
Columbia-Greene-Ulster
1890
which became
Hudson Valley Volunteer Firemen's Assn. . . . — — Map (db m313343) HM WM
In memory of the the boys from Coxsackie, N.Y. who answered their country's call in the World War.
★ Ernest Applebee •
★ John Henry Collins •
★ William P. McPartland •
★ Howard W. Van Loan •
★ Haswell . . . — — Map (db m313297) WM
In tribute to
Jessie Van Vechten Vedder
1859-1952. Photographer,
preservationist, founder of
historical society & author
of History of Greene County — — Map (db m176697) HM
From here you see a long limestone ridge running north and south almost parallel to the Hudson (Nordt) River. The Dutch arriving here in the mid 1600s found a Native American trail on the limestone ridge (Kalkberg). The ancient well-traveled and . . . — — Map (db m314031) HM
Hub of commerce & travel
est. by 1810. From here local
goods were sent to market,
steamships docked and a ferry
crossed the Hudson River. — — Map (db m179125) HM
First church building , 1733-1798, about 1/4 mile west on north side of road. Second church building, 1798-1861, on south side of road nearly opposite the first. Present building erected 1861.
Pastors
George Michael Weiss, 1732-1765
Johannes . . . — — Map (db m184371) HM
Imagine standing here knowing only one pair of bald eagles still nest in New York State.
There are no young eagles left in the area. Year after year eggs are laid, but they do not survive due to the side effects of pesticides used in the region. . . . — — Map (db m283130) HM
About This Barn
Why does this barn have thirteen sides? We do not know, but the building itself is one variation of a type of farm building usually known as a round barn. Round barns have as few as five sides to as many as twenty, while . . . — — Map (db m176708) HM
