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On January 1, 1765, William Legg bought around 100 acres of land lying on both sides of the Saw Kill. This was one of the first purchases to be made in the present town of Kingston. Legg built a sawmill and a house. The Legg family lived there for 88 years. It was reported that they ground wheat in the mill for the Continental Army.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ulster County, New York This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ulster County, New York .
Kingston Catholic School acquired the newer St. Joseph building and turned it into its middle school facility. [27] The older building was put up for sale in 2019. [30] The Kingston Center of SUNY Ulster (KCSU) is a branch of the county's community college that offers programs, courses and certifications at a convenient Midtown location. KCSU ...
The house's build date of 1700 comes from a statement by its owner in the late 1930s. He told the Daily Freeman , Kingston's newspaper, that the house had been built by that year. Its original owner, the first Van Steenburgh, was a man named Jan Janisse, later Jansen Timmerman, from the Dutch town of Amersfoort who assumed the Van Steenburgh ...
Typical configurations include farm buildings used for both livestock and grain/hay storage. The bastle house is an arrangement which places the living quarters above the farm building and, usually, the farm animals. This type of connected farm was common as a defensive arrangement; living quarters were located high above for security reasons.
The Kingston Stockade District is an eight-block area in the western section of Kingston, New York, United States, commonly referred to as Uptown Kingston. It is the original site of the mid-17th century Dutch settlement of Wiltwyck, which was later renamed Kingston when it passed to English control .
East Kingston is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 277 at the 2020 census . East Kingston is located in the southeastern corner of the Town of Ulster .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 20.8 square miles (54 km 2), of which 19.9 square miles (52 km 2) is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2) (3.90%) is water. Rosendale is bisected or bordered by natural and man-made formations.