Marches past in the Rondout Valley

March 7, 1856 – The People’s Press [Kingston] The Difference.

While all true Americans have been celebrating Washington’s birth-day, and made it a legal holiday, the Catholic Irish reserve their rejoicings for St. Patrick’s Day, thus keeping up their distinctive nationality, and belying all their professions of becoming American citizens. The reason is plain; the priests can govern them better as distinctive Irish than as American citizens.

March 31, 1870 – New-Paltz Independent

Jacob Stoll has sold his property at Rock Lock for $3,000. The cement companies there intend buying all the groceries in that vicinity. They have suffered quite enough from their effects. B.F. Hardenbergh intends erecting more tenement houses there this spring. They are needed. The cement mills have started.

March 24, 1887 – The Kingston Weekly Freeman and Journal

To Improve the Canals.

The Assembly passed a bill yesterday to appropriate $550,000 for the improvement of the canals ….

The bill is sure of a safe passage through the Senate and of the Governor’s approval. The work of improvement to which the money is to be chiefly devoted is the doubling of the length of the locks. The vote proves that the state is not yet ready to abandon the canals, which would be the almost certain result if the appropriation had been withheld. The canals are not now in condition to compete successfully with the railroads. Nor is it likely that $550,000 will put them in condition to accommodate the immense and rapidly increasing grain traffic to the West. But it will suffice, probably, to convince Congress of the value of the canals of New York as national waterways. The easy passage of the appropriation is due in large measure to the growing confidence that Congress will in a few years take the work of maintaining and improving the canals of New York.

March 25, 1898 – New-Patz Independent

While John C. Oliver was tearing down the old Brodhead homestead in the town of Marbletown, on the site of which he is having a handsome new residence erected, he found an old andiron, which is believed to be over 200 years old, as the Brodheads were among the earliest settlers in that section. Mr. Oliver expects to recover the other andiron of the pair, when he will present them to John N. Cordts [Kingston politician].

March 24, 1899 – New-Paltz

Independent Farm property now sells for about one-third the selling price 25 years ago. On the other side of the mountain the condition of affairs must be still worse, now that the canal has been abandoned. The canal afforded quite a home market to the farmers of Rochester and Wawarsing.

March 16, 1922 – New Paltz Independent and Times Hot lunches for Out-of-Town

Pupils.

Linda Tantillo

At Ellenville the Parent-Teachers Association has taken up the matter of noonday lunch for out-of-town pupils and is serving hot cocoa at cost to all who wish it. If there is sufficient interest shown, it is planned to offer other articles of food for lunch.