Railroads
Dutchess and Ulster counties shared in the railroad building boom of the nineteenth century. Railroad buffs can describe in detail the construction of lines during the later half of the century. However, the Marist College land history is most interested in the Poughkeepsie & Eastern RR, rights of way which still course through or adjacent to College land and the Hudson River Railroad Company, which arrived at the Dutchess area along the shoreline of the Hudson 1848-1850.
The Harlem Line
The first north/south line to run through Dutchess county was the Harlem line along the Connecticut border, running parallel to state road 22. Completed around 1840, it was the first line to connect New York City to the Albany area. Its northern terminus was Chatham, a town which still has tracks for train storage. Besides passenger traffic, the line became known for its milk run each day. When I was a youngster (1930s) we bought our milk from Sheffield Farms. This was a milk producer located in the south Bronx below Fordham Road near the tracks of the Harlem Line. Sheffield Farm was along the Harlem line. Early morning each day a train would make stops along the line to pick up milk from the local farmers and bring it to New York City for processing.
The Harlem line also carried other passengers and freight. It connected at Chatham with an east/west railroad which brought it to the Albany/Troy area.
The Hudson River Line
The Poughkeepsie Improvement Committee, of whom Matthew Vassar was an important member worried that Poughkeepsie would lose its importance as a trading center if business shifted to the Harlem line. They successfully campaigned to have the railroad run along the Hudson River. The development of the Hudson River Railroad in the Poughkeepsie area occurred in 1848 - 1852 (see note 1). The railroad reached Poughkeepsie in the mid 1840s. By 1849, the railroad purchased land from the owners of the properties now owned by Marist College (these deeds are stored with the other deeds relating to the property parcels). The descriptions of the land acquired by the railroad give interesting details of the north/south length of the properties affected (see note 2). The map filed with the county and available in the Dutchess County records office, constitutes a benchmark of who owned the lots in 1848 as well as the length of the lots north-too-south. The tracks ran normally along shore, but at other places slightly inland, thus dividing lands of the landowners into two sections, one between the Highland turnpike and the railroad, the other between the Hudson River and the railroad tracks.
Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad
A primary mover behind the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad was John Flack Winslow, who moved to Poughkeepsie from Troy New York in 1867. Winslow is remembered mainly as the man who managed the building of the Monitor during the Civil War. He and Erastus Cornell owned the largest foundry on the Hudson River in Troy.
There were extensive iron ore properties in Amenia and Millerton and Pine Plains. John Winslow was well aware of this, as his Troy Iron Works had secured mining rights in that area and was able to transport the ore by rail to his foundry in Troy. At the same time, Poughkeepsie Iron Works hauled its ore from Beekman and Fishkill Plains using oxen and plank roads. In addition there were several foundries in the east of Dutchess County which used wood for its furnaces. But the supply of wood was running out. Although Winslow was not the originator of the idea of an east-west railroad in Dutchess County, he was a strong supporter and was President of the Poughkeepsie & Eastern during the construction and early operation of the railroad.
Discussions about such an east west railroad had been held for two decades, with the main arguments to design an access route for railroad transportation from New England to the West. The Connecticut and Western railroad already had reached Boston Corners in Columbia County. The delay in organizing and building the P & E led to several competing railroads, such as the Dutchess and Columbia, the Dutchess and Rhinebeck. Eventually the more favorable route was taken through Hopewell Junction and Danbury, CT. The P&E was designed to meet the Connecticut & Western RR near Millerton. Several connecting railroads were built, one of which led to Rhinebeck where freight cars could be ferried across to Kingston and the West Shore RR.
Winslow developed the plan to organize a railroad from Millerton to Poughkeepsie. At this time most railroad development was private, so the money had to be raised from private individuals, but government approval to secure the right of way, using eminent domain if need be. The bulk of this undertaking was achieved in the 1868 to 1871 period (see note 3). The path of the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad Company started at Boston Corners (in Columbia County) and Millerton on the Connecticut border and ran southwest across Dutchess County through Stanford and Pleasant Valley, passing next to the Fallkill Creek where it borders St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery, moving directly into the city of Poughkeepsie near Smith Street where it stored its trains and equipment. It could not move directly westward across the city to the Hudson River Railroad because the slope from the city center to the level of the Hudson River shore was too steep. Smith Street is about 100 feet above river level; a direct path down to the railroad was impossible. To create a gentle slope to the river, the path took a 180 degree turn north moving into what would later become the Hudson River State Hospital. There the engineers created another 180 degree turn southward down a gentle slope to reach the Hudson River Railroad tracks just south of the present Marist College property, close to the location of the Poughkeepsie Iron Works. The track passes under route 9 and runs along the edge of the Marist College property behind the McCann Baseball Field and the McCann Athletic Center, when it finally achieves the grade of the Hudson River Railroad tracks. The major foundry operated by Bech and Tower was immediately north of Hoffman Street, close to the intersection of the railroads.
This slope is an important element in the College east of 9 property; now devoid of tracks, it is still owned by the CSX. Marist College did secure permission to build a pedestrian bridge over the culvert. This pedestrian bridge loomed large in the plans for the underpass for pedestrian crossing of route 9 that leads to a field just north of the Kieran Gatehouse. The path of the Poughkeepsie & Eastern became an important freight route for Western Publishing Company and Shatz Federal Bearings and several smaller industries in the Fairview section. It carried coal to the Hudson River State Hospital which had central heating for all it buildings.
The Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad failed during the panic of 1873. However, it kept operating under different names, even reverting to its original name toward the end of the nineteenth century. The last passenger service to Pleasant Valley from the east county ended in 1937 (see note 4). The route of the P&E was overshadowed by the route from Danbury through Hopewell Junction which brought New England traffic to the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge by 1891. But the railroad still carried passengers until 1937. An article by Anthony Musso in the Poughkeepsie Journal relates the status of the Pleasant Valley station on the railway, which stands on public school property. The Dutchess County Fairgrounds has transported it to the fairgrounds as part of its Dutchess History project. Certain bits and pieces of the P&E were incorporated into the Danbury line by the Central New England railroad.
The West Shore Line
The West Shore line was a late development dating to 1880. It was started by the Pennsylvania Railroad to compete against Cornelius Vanderbilt who had led the construction of the Hudson River line. It ran to Albany, then westward (often within sight of the Vanderbilt line) to Buffalo. To challenge the Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt began construction of a railroad from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Eventually J P Morgan stepped into the picture and engineered a truce. The West Shore was purchased by Vanderbilt and the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh line was abandoned. (It later became the route of the Pennsylvania Turnpike!). West Shore line carried passengers and freight for many years, but discontinued its passenger traffic about 1960. It has grown important to carry goods from the midwest to the shipping areas in New Jersey. By 2010 it carried 24 long freights per diem to Hoboken and Newark.
Notes
Note 1. This chapter confines its focus to railroads which directly touched the future Marist College property.
The term Highland turnpike was used in early deeds, and later became Hyde Park road.
Note 2. Representative deeds to the Hudson River Railroad for properties currently owned by Marist College are:
Newbold parcel: not yet located
Winslow parcel: deed 16 June 1849 liber 89 page 459 James and Elizabeth Van Schoonhoven to Hudson River Railroad Co parcels # 204 and 205 on railroad map filed with the county
Barnard parcel: deed 5 March 1850 liber 93 page 191 Joseph C Johnson to Hudson River Railroad Co 1007 line feet
Bech parcel: 20 Feb 1849 liber 88 page 415 Abraham Van Anden to Hudson River Railroad Co 328 line feet
deed 23 Dec 1849 liber 88 page 237 Jahiel and Phebe Smith to Hudson River Railroad Co 369 line feet
Myers parcel: not yet located
Note 3. Land purchases that made up the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad
year
|
liber |
page |
description | grantor | grantee |
|
0 |
88 |
415 |
$100 328 feet/.553 acres for rail tracks | Abraham van Anden | Hudson River RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
1 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 4 acres near George Morgan land | Hiram D Leak | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
4 |
$600 P'k'sie town 66 x 1160 Catholic Cemetery | John McCloskey | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
7 |
$13,000 P'k'sie city Smith, Oakley & Cottage sts | Charles P Adriance | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
11 |
release from mortgage lands txfrd to P&E | Cyuillria Wiley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
12 |
$800 P'k'sie town 66 x 2617 near Catholic cemetery | John O'Dell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
14 |
$50 Pleasant Valley near DeGarmo & Dutchess turnpike | Johanna Ryan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
16 |
P'k'sie town parcel near Catholic Cemetery | John W Lattin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
18 |
$800 Pleasant Valley 66 x1155 | Alfred Mastin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
20 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1600 | David E Doty | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
22 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1333 | Abby J L Landis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
24 |
$750 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2544 | Davod F Leack | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
26 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2783 | John Bower | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
29 |
$150 P'k'sie city 1/2 acre ner Fallkill Creek | Matthias Kipp | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
31 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 883 | Ronald Roken | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
33 |
$4,000 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1160 3/4 acre | George Morgan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
36 |
$800 Pleasant Valley near DeGarmo land | John C Marshall | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
40 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1822 | Robert C Smith | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
42 |
$1 P'k'sie city near Fallkill Creek | Edward L Beadle | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
44 |
$1,500 P'k'sie Town 66 x 2287 | George W Kirtland | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
47 |
$250 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1585 | Henry R French | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
49 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley taken via eminent domain | Presb Cong Pleasant Valley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
53 |
$100 Pleasant Valley 3/100 acre | Oliver Haviland | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
59 |
$1 Pleasant Valley mortgaged land of DeGarmo | Silas DeGarmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
60 |
$800 $300 cash and $600 P&E stock 66 x 937 | William Armstrong | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
64 |
$1,000 P'k'sie city & town 66 x 2154 | George Morgan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
67 |
$647 P'ksie Town 66 x 1375 | John A Van Wagner | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
69 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley 66x4138 | Benjamin Russell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
71 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2045 | Elias DeGarmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
73 |
$200 Pleasant Valley near Dutchess Turnpike | James Lester & wife Ann Elsa | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
75 |
$1 P'k'sie town | Joel O Holmes | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
75 |
deed for Pleasant Valley parcel | Joel O Holmes | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
77 |
$620 P'k'sie town 66 x 925 | William Clauss | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
81 |
$1,000 Pleasant Valley 3.33 acres | Edward De Garmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
83 |
$1 City P'k'sie 66 x 535 | Harriet Lent | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
84 |
$500 Clinton 66 x 1700 | William H Conell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
86 |
$2,000 Washington 8 acres | Gilbert T Pearsall | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
88 |
$1 land between Davis & Ziegler 66' x 563' | Elias H Van Benskouten | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
88 |
$ P'k'sie town 66 x 563 near Ziegler & Davies | Elias H Van Benschaen | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
90 |
$200 Clinton | Joseph P Alley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
92 |
$800 Stanford 106 x 1500 | William Lovelace | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
94 |
$1,200 Clinton 66 x 2871 | Alfred S Widley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
96 |
$450 Stanford 66 x 1038 | John Robinson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
98 |
$300 Clinton 66 x 956 | Tilkins Cheeseman | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
100 |
$3,000 Stanford 66 x 673 66 X 883 66 x 1140 | William P McIntyre | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
102 |
$100 Clinton 66 x 176 | Willis H Case | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
104 |
$1,600 Pleasant Valley & Clinton | Stephen T Angel | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
107 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66x 100 | P P Dickinson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
109 |
$600 Stanford 66 x 2423 | Charles W Haag | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
111 |
$484 Stanford 106 x 1688 | John W Butts | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
113 |
$1,000 P'k'sie town 66 x 2277 3+ acres | Elijah Baright | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
115 |
$1 Clinton triangle of land | Ann Vail | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
118 |
$200 Clinton 66 x 667 | Mary W Case | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
120 |
$1,000 P'k'sie town 66 x 3435 5 acres | Egbert Van Wagner | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
122 |
$150 Clinton 0.2 acre | Edmund W Cornell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
124 |
$250 Stanford 66 x 1323 | Albert Knapop | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
125 |
$345 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1121 near Hibernia | David Young | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
128 |
$1 Stanford 32/100 acre | Thomas Sands | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
129 |
$2,000 Stanford 66 x 1323 | Amos B Knapp | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
132 |
$1 Stanford near Axle factory | Silas Rogers | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
134 |
$100 Stanford 66 x 472 | Mary A Steuvins | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
137 |
$1 Clinton one acre parcel | John P Doty | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
139 |
$200 Stanford 66 x 1070 | Daniel M Davis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
140 |
Thomas Marriot | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1870 |
156 |
142 |
$1 Stanford 66 x 407 | Howard T Justis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
144 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66 x 729 | William Herrick | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
147 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 133 x 328 | Platt G Van Vliet | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
149 |
$125 Clinton Creek Mtg House of Quakers | William Bedell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
151 |
$500 Stanford 66 x 1027 | Allen M Mosher | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
153 |
$800 Stanford 66 x 2339 3.54 acres | Oliver K Smith | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
154 |
$1 Stanford near Quaker Cemetery | B Burtis Hicks | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
157 |
$300 Clinton 33 x 195 near P & E depot | Edmund W Cornell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
178 |
584 |
small triangle from land acquired from Lester | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | Amasa Buchman |
|
1871 |
156 |
158 |
$1 P'k'sie town 66 x 292 | Henry Vanderwater | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
160 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 3321 4.8 acres | Maria F Finn | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
162 |
$332 P'k'sie town 66 x 292 | Thomas H Bedell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
164 |
$250 Stanford 66 x 969 | James Wright | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
169 |
$65 Pleasant Valley 173 x 66 | Colin Peters | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
171 |
$151 Northeast 66 x 1872 | Margaret Couch | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
173 |
$160 Northeast 66 x 1753 | Hiram Rogers | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
175 |
$175 Northeast 58 x 1538 | Harmon Johnson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
177 |
$112 Northeast 58 x 1407 | Alanson Culver | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
179 |
$126 Northeast 58 x 1114 | James Holstead | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
181 |
$278 Northeast 46 x 1816 | Newman Lord | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
183 |
$109 Northeast 58 x 1425 | Henry G Lloyd | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
187 |
$400 Northeast 58 x 1984 | Devid Eggleston | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
189 |
$184 Northeast 58 x 1880 | John Senigo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
191 |
$400 Northeast 66 x 1647 | Helen B Eggleston | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
193 |
$1 Northeast 66 x 1491 | George Dakin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
195 |
$400 P'k'sie town 66 x 1023 | Cornelius W Brinkerhoff | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
197 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66 x 117 | Samuel R Atkin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
200 |
$150 P'k'sie city Hamilton Street | Mary C Mitchell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
202 |
$2,200 P'k'sie city Clinton Street | Adam Booz | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
208 |
$500 P'k'sie city Clinton St parcel | Cong. Breth of Israel | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
210 |
$1,000 P'k'sie city Clinton St parcel | Michael Dunn | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
212 |
$100 Pine Plains 66 x 57 | Edward Hunting | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
214 |
$100 P'k'sie city 33 x 307 | Jacob B Jewett | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
216 |
$700 Stanford 66 x 1923 | Zacariah Wilbur | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
218 |
$66 Pine Plains triangular parcel | C Henry Husted | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
220 |
$1,000 Pine Plains parcel | Richard Peck | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
223 |
$1 Stanford near McIntyre passanger stn | William McIntyre | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
225 |
$158 Pine Plains 66 x 560 | Adam Struyver | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
156 |
228 |
$900 Northeast parcel for terminal & freight storage | Dutchess County RR Co | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
156 |
231 |
Emily H Ketcham | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
233 |
Milton Brown | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
235 |
William S Eno | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
238 |
easement along tracks for water main to resevoir | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | Water Comissioners of Poughkeepsie |
|
1872 |
156 |
239 |
Nicola Zimmer | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
242 |
Salisbury CT parcel | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
176 |
564 |
Pine Plains & Litchfield lots | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1874 |
156 |
242 |
txfr land in Pine Plains NY | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1874 |
156 |
243 |
John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1875 |
179 |
533 |
$50,000 sale 47 miles track | P&E by ref | George Felton |
|
1877 |
189 |
297 |
P'k'sie City RR | Aaron Innis | |
|
1877 |
190 |
99 |
27 acres Winslow farm except P&E | James/Harriet Weeks | Harriet W Winslow |
|
1878 |
156 |
245 |
$40 P&E track Pleasant Valley 66x1585 | John O'Dell | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1883 |
214 |
1 |
$1 leases rails to Ancram | Pksie Hart & Bos RR | Hart&Conn West RR |
|
1883 |
214 |
450 |
Northeast 66 x 1848 | Mt Riga Iron Mfg | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1884 |
216 |
466 |
$50,000 Northeast to Ancram | Pksie Hart & Bos RR | Hart&Conn West RR |
|
1884 |
218 |
286 |
Irving Ellin referee | John F Winslow | |
|
1887 |
156 |
243 |
47 miles P&E track Pksie to Pine Plains | George P Felton | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1887 |
156 |
247 |
$10,000 40 mi Hudson River to Pine Plains | Hart& Conn West RR | George Pelton |
Note 4. The Pleasant Valley station house was preserved and located on one of the school grounds in Pleasant Valley. Arrangements are being made to relocate it to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck NY, which is developing a site for historic Dutchess County buildings. See Poughkeepsie Journal article by John Davis Old train stop may find new home November 26, 2009
This is a list of deeds which are on file at the Dutchess County Office Building with the County Clerk (second floor). It was not thought useful to provide the full text here as it is readily available at the office of the County Clerk.
Deed Legend:
year=the year recorded with the clerk
date=date marked on the deed itself
liber=book in which deed is listed
page=page of the liber book
description=description of deed
grantor=individual or group originally holding deed
grantee=individual or group taking title to the deed
Poughkeepsie & Eastern RR
|
year |
liber |
page |
description | grantor | grantee |
|
0 |
88 |
415 |
$100 328 feet/.553 acres for rail tracks | Abraham van Anden | Hudson River RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
1 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 4 acres near George Morgan land | Hiram D Leak | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
4 |
$600 P'k'sie town 66 x 1160 Catholic Cemetery | John McCloskey | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
7 |
$13,000 P'k'sie city Smith, Oakley & Cottage sts | Charles P Adriance | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
11 |
release from mortgage lands txfrd to P&E | Cyuillria Wiley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
12 |
$800 P'k'sie town 66 x 2617 near Catholic cemetery | John O'Dell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
14 |
$50 Pleasant Valley near DeGarmo & Dutchess turnpike | Johanna Ryan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
16 |
P'k'sie town parcel near Catholic Cemetery | John W Lattin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
18 |
$800 Pleasant Valley 66 x1155 | Alfred Mastin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
20 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1600 | David E Doty | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
22 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1333 | Abby J L Landis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
24 |
$750 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2544 | Davod F Leack | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
26 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2783 | John Bower | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
29 |
$150 P'k'sie city 1/2 acre ner Fallkill Creek | Matthias Kipp | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
31 |
$300 Pleasant Valley 66 x 883 | Ronald Roken | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
33 |
$4,000 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1160 3/4 acre | George Morgan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
36 |
$800 Pleasant Valley near DeGarmo land | John C Marshall | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
40 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1822 | Robert C Smith | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
42 |
$1 P'k'sie city near Fallkill Creek | Edward L Beadle | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
44 |
$1,500 P'k'sie Town 66 x 2287 | George W Kirtland | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
47 |
$250 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1585 | Henry R French | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
49 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley taken via eminent domain | Presb Cong Pleasant Valley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
53 |
$100 Pleasant Valley 3/100 acre | Oliver Haviland | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
59 |
$1 Pleasant Valley mortgaged land of DeGarmo | Silas DeGarmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
60 |
$800 $300 cash and $600 P&E stock 66 x 937 | William Armstrong | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
64 |
$1,000 P'k'sie city & town 66 x 2154 | George Morgan | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
67 |
$647 P'ksie Town 66 x 1375 | John A Van Wagner | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
69 |
$1,500 Pleasant Valley 66x4138 | Benjamin Russell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
71 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 2045 | Elias DeGarmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
73 |
$200 Pleasant Valley near Dutchess Turnpike | James Lester & wife Ann Elsa | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
75 |
$1 P'k'sie town | Joel O Holmes | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
75 |
deed for Pleasant Valley parcel | Joel O Holmes | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
77 |
$620 P'k'sie town 66 x 925 | William Clauss | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
81 |
$1,000 Pleasant Valley 3.33 acres | Edward De Garmo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1869 |
156 |
83 |
$1 City P'k'sie 66 x 535 | Harriet Lent | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
84 |
$500 Clinton 66 x 1700 | William H Conell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
86 |
$2,000 Washington 8 acres | Gilbert T Pearsall | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
88 |
$1 land between Davis & Ziegler 66' x 563' | Elias H Van Benskouten | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
88 |
$ P'k'sie town 66 x 563 near Ziegler & Davies | Elias H Van Benschaen | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
90 |
$200 Clinton | Joseph P Alley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
92 |
$800 Stanford 106 x 1500 | William Lovelace | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
94 |
$1,200 Clinton 66 x 2871 | Alfred S Widley | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
96 |
$450 Stanford 66 x 1038 | John Robinson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
98 |
$300 Clinton 66 x 956 | Tilkins Cheeseman | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
100 |
$3,000 Stanford 66 x 673 66 X 883 66 x 1140 | William P McIntyre | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
102 |
$100 Clinton 66 x 176 | Willis H Case | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
104 |
$1,600 Pleasant Valley & Clinton | Stephen T Angel | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
107 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66x 100 | P P Dickinson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
109 |
$600 Stanford 66 x 2423 | Charles W Haag | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
111 |
$484 Stanford 106 x 1688 | John W Butts | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
113 |
$1,000 P'k'sie town 66 x 2277 3+ acres | Elijah Baright | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
115 |
$1 Clinton triangle of land | Ann Vail | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
118 |
$200 Clinton 66 x 667 | Mary W Case | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
120 |
$1,000 P'k'sie town 66 x 3435 5 acres | Egbert Van Wagner | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
122 |
$150 Clinton 0.2 acre | Edmund W Cornell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
124 |
$250 Stanford 66 x 1323 | Albert Knapop | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
125 |
$345 Pleasant Valley 66 x 1121 near Hibernia | David Young | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
128 |
$1 Stanford 32/100 acre | Thomas Sands | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
129 |
$2,000 Stanford 66 x 1323 | Amos B Knapp | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
132 |
$1 Stanford near Axle factory | Silas Rogers | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
134 |
$100 Stanford 66 x 472 | Mary A Steuvins | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
137 |
$1 Clinton one acre parcel | John P Doty | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
139 |
$200 Stanford 66 x 1070 | Daniel M Davis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
140 |
Thomas Marriot | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1870 |
156 |
142 |
$1 Stanford 66 x 407 | Howard T Justis | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
144 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66 x 729 | William Herrick | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
147 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 133 x 328 | Platt G Van Vliet | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
149 |
$125 Clinton Creek Mtg House of Quakers | William Bedell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
151 |
$500 Stanford 66 x 1027 | Allen M Mosher | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
153 |
$800 Stanford 66 x 2339 3.54 acres | Oliver K Smith | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
154 |
$1 Stanford near Quaker Cemetery | B Burtis Hicks | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
156 |
157 |
$300 Clinton 33 x 195 near P & E depot | Edmund W Cornell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1870 |
178 |
584 |
small triangle from land acquired from Lester | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | Amasa Buchman |
|
1871 |
156 |
158 |
$1 P'k'sie town 66 x 292 | Henry Vanderwater | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
160 |
$500 Pleasant Valley 66 x 3321 4.8 acres | Maria F Finn | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
162 |
$332 P'k'sie town 66 x 292 | Thomas H Bedell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
164 |
$250 Stanford 66 x 969 | James Wright | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
169 |
$65 Pleasant Valley 173 x 66 | Colin Peters | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
171 |
$151 Northeast 66 x 1872 | Margaret Couch | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
173 |
$160 Northeast 66 x 1753 | Hiram Rogers | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
175 |
$175 Northeast 58 x 1538 | Harmon Johnson | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
177 |
$112 Northeast 58 x 1407 | Alanson Culver | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
179 |
$126 Northeast 58 x 1114 | James Holstead | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
181 |
$278 Northeast 46 x 1816 | Newman Lord | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
183 |
$109 Northeast 58 x 1425 | Henry G Lloyd | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
187 |
$400 Northeast 58 x 1984 | Devid Eggleston | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
189 |
$184 Northeast 58 x 1880 | John Senigo | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
191 |
$400 Northeast 66 x 1647 | Helen B Eggleston | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
193 |
$1 Northeast 66 x 1491 | George Dakin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
195 |
$400 P'k'sie town 66 x 1023 | Cornelius W Brinkerhoff | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
197 |
$1 Pleasant Valley 66 x 117 | Samuel R Atkin | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
200 |
$150 P'k'sie city Hamilton Street | Mary C Mitchell | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
202 |
$2,200 P'k'sie city Clinton Street | Adam Booz | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
208 |
$500 P'k'sie city Clinton St parcel | Cong. Breth of Israel | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
210 |
$1,000 P'k'sie city Clinton St parcel | Michael Dunn | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
212 |
$100 Pine Plains 66 x 57 | Edward Hunting | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
214 |
$100 P'k'sie city 33 x 307 | Jacob B Jewett | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
216 |
$700 Stanford 66 x 1923 | Zacariah Wilbur | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
218 |
$66 Pine Plains triangular parcel | C Henry Husted | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
220 |
$1,000 Pine Plains parcel | Richard Peck | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
223 |
$1 Stanford near McIntyre passanger stn | William McIntyre | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1871 |
156 |
225 |
$158 Pine Plains 66 x 560 | Adam Struyver | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
156 |
228 |
$900 Northeast parcel for terminal & freight storage | Dutchess County RR Co | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
156 |
231 |
Emily H Ketcham | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
233 |
Milton Brown | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
235 |
William S Eno | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
238 |
easement along tracks for water main to resevoir | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | Water Comissioners of Poughkeepsie |
|
1872 |
156 |
239 |
Nicola Zimmer | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1872 |
156 |
242 |
Salisbury CT parcel | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1872 |
176 |
564 |
Pine Plains & Litchfield lots | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1874 |
156 |
242 |
txfr land in Pine Plains NY | John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR |
|
1874 |
156 |
243 |
John F Winslow | P'k'sie & Eastern RR | |
|
1875 |
179 |
533 |
$50,000 sale 47 miles track | P&E by ref | George Felton |
|
1877 |
189 |
297 |
P'k'sie City RR | Aaron Innis | |
|
1877 |
190 |
99 |
27 acres Winslow farm except P&E | James/Harriet Weeks | Harriet W Winslow |
|
1878 |
156 |
245 |
$40 P&E track Pleasant Valley 66x1585 | John O'Dell | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1883 |
214 |
1 |
$1 leases rails to Ancram | Pksie Hart & Bos RR | Hart&Conn West RR |
|
1883 |
214 |
450 |
Northeast 66 x 1848 | Mt Riga Iron Mfg | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1884 |
216 |
466 |
$50,000 Northeast to Ancram | Pksie Hart & Bos RR | Hart&Conn West RR |
|
1884 |
218 |
286 |
Irving Ellin referee | John F Winslow | |
|
1887 |
156 |
243 |
47 miles P&E track Pksie to Pine Plains | George P Felton | Pksie Hart & Bos RR |
|
1887 |
156 |
247 |
$10,000 40 mi Hudson River to Pine Plains | Hart& Conn West RR | George Pelton |
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