Topographic Map of the Esopus Property
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Topographic Map of the Esopus Property
This is the 1997 topographic map labeled "Hyde Park - NY" published by the U.S. Department of the Interior as part of the U.S. Geological Survey series ("USGS")
The map was compiled in 1962, but updated with aerial surveys in 1978 and 1997. Descriptions of the details of the map are in the section below this map
Details relevant to the Marist Brothers' Property.
Contour lines link land of the same elevation above sea level. When lines are close together, it signifies steep slopes. Lines far apart show gentle rises or fell in the terrain. Note the close lines as the railroad passes through the Payne properties west of route 9W. Note that the lines are close together near the river.
The heavy red line is the main highway, route 9W. The line with alternate red and white (or empty) sections is Black Creek Road. The broken red line is also used for Floyd Ackert Road. The broken red line indicates a secondary road.
Names on the map date to 1962. Some translations:
Betty (along the river) is a geodesic marker inserted in the main dock during the original survey of the Hudson River.
Copper (along the river) is a geodesic marker inserted near the pump house at the north end of the Payne estate.
Santa Maria Novitiate is the property once owned by Archibald Russell and now belonging to the Irish Christian Brothers.
Marist Brothers Seminary is what we called the "mansion" or "main house" now owned privately.
Marist Preparatory Sch is what we mistakenly called the "English Village" now owned by the Marist Brothers. One black dot
represents the Pratt Cottage now called Holy Rosary, and another dot represents the Ice House.
Wiltwyck School are the original Payne employee cottages calle3d "English Village" on Carrère & Hastings plans.
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The Payne chicken buildings and farm superintendent's cottage is not identified, but is marked directly south of the caption Ascension Church Cem and due west of Marist Brothers Seminary.
Light green areas marked with what look like tufts of grass represent swamps. The Payne property encountered steeps slopes just west of route 9-W, the crossed swampland until it reached what is now Floyd Ackert Road.
John Burroughs' house Slabsides simple a black rectangle SW of the caption "Sand and Gravel Pit" and due south of the altitude marker "544" feet. Burroughs also purchased the swamps SSW of Slabsides.
Mount Saint Alphonsus Seminary was built on Robert Livingston Pell's Pelham Farm, which extended southwards to the Black Creek.
This is the 1997 topographic map labeled "Hyde Park - NY" published by the U.S. Department of the Interior as part of the U.S. Geological Survey series ("USGS")
The map was compiled in 1962, but updated with aerial surveys in 1978 and 1997. Descriptions of the details of the map are in the section below this map
Details relevant to the Marist Brothers' Property.
Contour lines link land of the same elevation above sea level. When lines are close together, it signifies steep slopes. Lines far apart show gentle rises or fell in the terrain. Note the close lines as the railroad passes through the Payne properties west of route 9W. Note that the lines are close together near the river.
The heavy red line is the main highway, route 9W. The line with alternate red and white (or empty) sections is Black Creek Road. The broken red line is also used for Floyd Ackert Road. The broken red line indicates a secondary road.
Names on the map date to 1962. Some translations:
Betty (along the river) is a geodesic marker inserted in the main dock during the original survey of the Hudson River.
Copper (along the river) is a geodesic marker inserted near the pump house at the north end of the Payne estate.
Santa Maria Novitiate is the property once owned by Archibald Russell and now belonging to the Irish Christian Brothers.
Marist Brothers Seminary is what we called the "mansion" or "main house" now owned privately.
Marist Preparatory Sch is what we mistakenly called the "English Village" now owned by the Marist Brothers. One black dot
represents the Pratt Cottage now called Holy Rosary, and another dot represents the Ice House.
Wiltwyck School are the original Payne employee cottages calle3d "English Village" on Carrère & Hastings plans.
.
The Payne chicken buildings and farm superintendent's cottage is not identified, but is marked directly south of the caption Ascension Church Cem and due west of Marist Brothers Seminary.
Light green areas marked with what look like tufts of grass represent swamps. The Payne property encountered steeps slopes just west of route 9-W, the crossed swampland until it reached what is now Floyd Ackert Road.
John Burroughs' house Slabsides simple a black rectangle SW of the caption "Sand and Gravel Pit" and due south of the altitude marker "544" feet. Burroughs also purchased the swamps SSW of Slabsides.
Mount Saint Alphonsus Seminary was built on Robert Livingston Pell's Pelham Farm, which extended southwards to the Black Creek.
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