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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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