A history of Catskill,
since 1788
Postcards, papers and photographs of Catskill from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first settler was Derrick Teunis van Vechten, who built a house there in 1680. The town was established on March 7, 1788, as part of Albany County. When Greene County was formed on March 25, 1800, Catskill became part of the new county. The town was increased by an addition from the town of Woodstock in 1800, but was later decreased upon the formation of the towns of Cairo (1803) and Athens (1815). Catskill is the location of the story "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving.
On July 23, 2003, an F2 tornado ripped across the town. The worst of the damage occurred at the Kiskatom flats. The tornado crossed over New York Route 32 and went past the Friar Tuck Inn, causing two mobile homes to flip over.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Catskill’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCatskill, N.Y, 1889: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Catskill, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Catskill, N.Y (1889) and it appears here side by side.
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