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Esopus (/ ˌ ɛ ˈ s oʊ p ə s / eh-SOHP-əs) is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 9,548 at the 2020 census. [2] The town was named after the local indigenous tribe and previously thought to mean "small river" in English. [3] However, in the Lenape language, the word translates to "Wellspring of Creation".
Esopus is a basic hamlet and only has 5 streets: 9W runs north-south through the hamlet, Main Street, which used to be the original Broadway/9W until a new section of 9W was built splitting off from Main Street, later to meet again about 1/2 mile down the road, Black Creek Road, Parker Avenue, which connects 9W to Main Street, and Old Post Road ...
Esopus, New York, a town in Ulster County Esopus (village), in the town of Esopus; Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River; Esopus Meadows Lighthouse, a lighthouse on the Hudson River near Esopus, New York; Esopus Wars, two localized conflicts between Dutch settlers and the Esopus tribe of Lenape native people during the latter half of ...
The first believed interaction between colonists and the Esopus people was recorded in 1609. Historian Herbert C. Kraft believes some Esopus joined with some Wappinger people after Kieft's War in 1643. [4] In 1652, the Esopus tribe sold 72 acres of land to European colonists through the Thomas Chambers land deed in Kingston, New York. It is ...
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus, now known as Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum, is a historic Dutch Reformed church building at 764 US 9W in Esopus, Ulster County, New York. The church building was constructed in 1827. In 1965 the Ulster Park Reformed Church closed the church after 138 years of operation.
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate is a historic 60-acre (24 ha) estate, also known as Omega and Wiltwick, [2] located on the west bank of the Hudson River at Esopus in Ulster County, New York, United States. The estate features a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m 2) Beaux Arts-style Mediterranean palazzo with an open courtyard.
Esopus Meadows Light was closed in 1965 and by the 1990s it had fallen into a state of disrepair. The most serious problem was the deterioration of the foundation, which had begun to fall apart due to ice damage.
It is located in the town of Esopus in eastern Ulster County. Shaupeneak Ridge Cooperative Recreation Area (CRA) covers part of the ridge-top, slope, and base of Shaupeneak Mountain, an 892-foot (272 m) [3] high ridge of the Marlboro Mountains, which stretch from Newburgh, New York to Kingston, New York.