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Overview of the Maristland Project
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Maristland project describes the various parcels of land under
and near the current boundaries of Marist College, as well as
details some of the individuals who lived on the land and who
were important to the history of the land or of Dutchess
County.
All of the land under Marist College
was part of the 1686 patent granted
to Mynert Hermanse and John
Sanders. We have been able to
track almost all of the land
transactions from that patent to the
present day. This project will
concentrate on the individuals
deemed most important to the
history of the land and the College.
The basic section of the campus lies
between the Hudson River and Route 9. The white area just
above the yellow marked Marist College now belongs to Marist,
so the land stretches north the the pink section which is now
Quiet Cove. The horizontal line between the words Hudson
River and Psychiatric Center is the border line between the
Town of Poughkeepsie and the Town of Hyde Park.
Besides the basic section, the College has expanded east
across route 9 in a rectangle bordered by Fulton Street on the
north and West Cedar Street on the south, Route 9 on the
West and Fairview Avenue on the east.
Note the location of St. Peter's Cemetery. The Fallkill starts
eastbound from the Hudson near Mount Carmel Church, but
then turns north and runs along the back road of the
Cemetery. This is important to us because the Poughkeepsie &
Eastern Railroad, organized by John Flack Winslow ran along





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the back road of the cemetery, then U-turned north to the
Hudson River Psychiatric Center, then U-turned south passing
through the east-of-nine sections of the present campus and
forming the border of Marist land east of the McCann Baseball
field and the McCann Athletic Center.
Note also the location of Morgan Lake. The three hundred
acres east of Route 9 and beyond Morgan Lake was once
owned by Elizabeth McCarty Bech, Edwin Bech's widow. It
became the area now called Fairview, which includes Marist-
east-of-9
To simplify treatment of the Maristland
project, I have designed several logical
sectors, which correspond partially to
the land areas. The major areas
(Newbold, Winslow, Barnard, Bech and
Myers) are contiguous, with the Water
Works Road separating the Barnard and
Bech parcels. River and railroad parcels
are bunched together, but the railroad
parcels also include the spur of the old
Poughkeepsie & Eastern. The circle
marked Odd Lot is a collection of minor parcels important to
the history of the college but not key to its major functions.
The reader ought to refer to both these maps as he/she plows
through the remainder of the project.
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First version 25 April 2011
Reviewed and spell checked June 14, 2013