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The Albany Post Road was a post road – a road used for mail delivery – in the U.S. state of New York. It connected New York City and Albany along the east side of the Hudson River , a service now performed by U.S. Route 9 (US 9).
Old Albany Post Road is a 6.6-mile (10.6 km) dirt road in Philipstown, New York, one of the oldest unpaved roads still in use in the United States. [2] It runs mostly north-south through the southeastern corner of the town, near the Putnam Valley town line.
Unpaved 6.6-mile (10.6 km) section of original Albany Post Road, with original mileposts, dating to mid-17th century. One of the oldest dirt roads still in use in the U.S. 33: Old Southeast Church: Old Southeast Church
County routes in Ulster County, New York, are mostly signed with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices-standard yellow-on-blue pentagon route marker, however, several routes are still marked with very faded, sometimes illegible blue diamond shaped markers with white or yellow lettering, and the route number inside of an outline of the county, similar to those old markers in Orange County.
Initially, the county's proximity to the Hudson River supplied cheap means of transporting goods to Albany and New York City, though in the winter months, the river froze over. [6] To resolve the issue, in 1815, the Philipstown Turnpike Company was organized to improve upon a toll road from Cold Spring to the Connecticut border. [7]
In 1703 the New York colonial assembly approved money for the construction of the King's Highway, later known as the Albany Post Road and today most of Route 9. Three years later Traphagen bought a tract of land in Beekman's patent where the King's Highway intersected the Sepasco Indian Trail, the route today followed by Market Street.
The Tuthilltown Gristmill is located off Albany Post Road (Ulster County Route 9) in Gardiner, New York, United States. It was built in 1788, as the National Register reports, and has been expanded several times since. Until recently it was the oldest continuously operated grist mill in the state.
The route at that time followed the north end of Albany Post Road over the Shawangunk Kill and then east along the kill's south bank to ford the Wallkill River just south of the confluence. The turnpike company eventually went bankrupt. [5] The exit for US 44/NY 55 for the Mid-Hudson Bridge from US 9.