. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. n among the incorporators: Peter I. Vos-burgh, Bartholomew J. Van Valkenburgh, John Goes, Jr.,Medad Butler, John Rogers, Abraham I. Van Vleck, andJohn A. Van Buren. The Farmers Turnpike (the presentRiver Road), concerning which we find the Van Alstines ofPoelsburg making stipulations as to its course, was charteredin 1813. VILLAGE STREETS Soon after the abandonment of the old burial ground in1817, Chatham Street was laid out as now, although therehad long been a narrow lane along the southerly side. In 1821 Broad Street r
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. n among the incorporators: Peter I. Vos-burgh, Bartholomew J. Van Valkenburgh, John Goes, Jr.,Medad Butler, John Rogers, Abraham I. Van Vleck, andJohn A. Van Buren. The Farmers Turnpike (the presentRiver Road), concerning which we find the Van Alstines ofPoelsburg making stipulations as to its course, was charteredin 1813. VILLAGE STREETS Soon after the abandonment of the old burial ground in1817, Chatham Street was laid out as now, although therehad long been a narrow lane along the southerly side. In 1821 Broad Street received substantially its presentform, for in that year six women of the Holland familyconsented to the appropriation of a strip of their land for thestraightening of the street, making the north line coincidewith the front of the corner stores of John Bain and PeterVan Buren. The accommodating women also agreed tomove back to that line their own red store, which stood infront of the present Lindenwald Hotel. The Holland family ii The Village Bridges From a photograph. The Creek near the Bridge From a photograph HigKways 327 were owners of the whole corner and of a considerable tracton the west side of Albany Avenue. In December, 37,Maiden Lane was made a village street, running from theold road to Cow street, now William. In 1839, CongressStreet, Valatie, was laid out over the land of Nathan Wild,and in 1840 it was ordered that the street or highway fromthe bridge near the cotton factory of Nathan Wild, runningeasterly, ... is hereby designated and shall hereafter beknown by the name of Main street. The reports of thelaying out and altering of many minor roads are much toonumerous to be given in detail. OLD BRIDGES In 1719 (Colonial Laws, i., p. 1030) the Justices of thePeace and inhabitants of Kinderhook, Claverack, and theMannor of Livingston were authorized to expend not toexceed eighty ounces of plate for a bridge over KinderhookCreek. This Act was passed in answer to a pe
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