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On April 27, 1677, New York's Governor Andros signed an agreement with the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan family, to purchase "a place called Sagiers" for a blanket, a piece of cloth, a shirt, a loaf of bread, and some coarse fiber to make socks.
Prior to 1712 the main business interest in Saugerties was farming. John Woods (1717) and John Persen (1712) were two early mill owners and there are indications that others leased mill sites on the banks of the Esopus at its first and second falls.
The Kiersted House on Main Street (1727) was built by Hiskia DuBois. Deeds from John Wood's sons to John Legg and Abraham DuBois mention the "Negro Mill" as a landmark indicating early presence of blacks in the community.
The Katsbaan area northeast of the village was settled before 1730 by Dutch farmers from teh Kingson Commons and Palatines from the "Camps" along the river in Saugerties. By 1732 the Palatine and Dutch settlers petitioned to deed Katsbaan to the Dutch Reformed Church and build a stone church. This church still stands today. It became a landmark on Colonial American maps along with centers of population.
As late as 1811 the hamlet of Saugerties contained only 21 houses. In 1828, Henry Barclay sparked the expansion of the community by establishing the Ulster Iron Works and a paper mill.
The village grew quickly and in 1831 incorporated under the name of Ulster, changing the name to Saugerties in 1855. Before the Civil War the iron works processed pig iron and scrap and employed three hundred people working round-the-clock shifts.
Manufacture of paper, calico prints, white lead and paint, and shipment of hides and bluestone helped support the community and created a busy business district. Typical nineteenth centruy tradesmen lined the streets above the docks and mills.
The Village population stabilized at about 4,000 around 1870 after forty years of sharp increase and remained almost unchanged for one hundred years. Irish, Germans established themselves as workers in the mills, quarries, and brickyards as well as in the village. Later in the nineteenth century Saugerties became a popular landing and hostelry for tourists going to boarding houses in the Catskill Mountain foothills.
The Historic district in the Village contains over 90 buildings of special architectural or historical interest. Most noteworthy is the Scofield-Halpert Building on Main Street.The district also has valuable late Victorian buildings on Main and Partition Streets including the E. Whitaker Building which retains its cast iron cresting above a mansard roof.
Village Of Saugerties
History
On April 27, 1677, New York's Governor Andros signed an agreement with the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan family, to purchase "a place called Sagiers" for a blanket, a piece of cloth, a shirt, a loaf of bread, and some coarse fiber to make socks.
Prior to 1712 the main business interest in Saugerties was farming. John Woods (1717) and John Persen (1712) were two early mill owners and there are indications that others leased mill sites on the banks of the Esopus at its first and second falls.
The Kiersted House on Main Street (1727) was built by Hiskia DuBois. Deeds from John Wood's sons to John Legg and Abraham DuBois mention the "Negro Mill" as a landmark indicating early presence of blacks in the community.
The Katsbaan area northeast of the village was settled before 1730 by Dutch farmers from teh Kingson Commons and Palatines from the "Camps" along the river in Saugerties. By 1732 the Palatine and Dutch settlers petitioned to deed Katsbaan to the Dutch Reformed Church and build a stone church. This church still stands today. It became a landmark on Colonial American maps along with centers of population.
As late as 1811 the hamlet of Saugerties contained only 21 houses. In 1828, Henry Barclay sparked the expansion of the community by establishing the Ulster Iron Works and a paper mill.
The village grew quickly and in 1831 incorporated under the name of Ulster, changing the name to Saugerties in 1855. Before the Civil War the iron works processed pig iron and scrap and employed three hundred people working round-the-clock shifts.
Manufacture of paper, calico prints, white lead and paint, and shipment of hides and bluestone helped support the community and created a busy business district. Typical nineteenth centruy tradesmen lined the streets above the docks and mills.
The Village population stabilized at about 4,000 around 1870 after forty years of sharp increase and remained almost unchanged for one hundred years. Irish, Germans established themselves as workers in the mills, quarries, and brickyards as well as in the village. Later in the nineteenth century Saugerties became a popular landing and hostelry for tourists going to boarding houses in the Catskill Mountain foothills.
The Historic district in the Village contains over 90 buildings of special architectural or historical interest. Most noteworthy is the Scofield-Halpert Building on Main Street.The district also has valuable late Victorian buildings on Main and Partition Streets including the E. Whitaker Building which retains its cast iron cresting above a mansard roof.