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The village of New York Mills is known throughout the State as the site of the celebrated cotton mills bearing that name. Benjamin Stuart Walcott was a native of Cumberland, R. I., and was a descendant in the - . fifth generation from Capt Jonathan Walcott who resided in Salem from 1655 to 1669.
Jul 4, 2013 · New York Mills, known for its cotton mills, at one time housed four mills. The New York Mills historical society shares their photos of the mills, the estates of their owners and the...
The New York Mills Historical Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the rich history of the village of New York Mills in New York. The society was established in 1975 and operates out of a historic building on Main Street.
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Jun 15, 2015 · New York Mills : 75 years of progress, 1884-1959 Bookreader Item Preview
- European Development in The Hudson Valley
- The Mills Estate
- Hoyt Estate: The Point
- The Locusts
- Hopeland
- Destruction, Repurpose, & Decline
- Conclusion
The Hudson River Valley was discovered by Europeans in the 17th century and was described as unlike anything the Dutch Captain Hendrick Hudson had ever seen. It was literally a new world of endless wilderness covering high hills and valleys cut through by a river so wide it made the Amstel seem like a stream. It was not long, however, before the Eu...
The first estate was developed in 1792 when New York's third governor, Morgan Lewis (l. 1754-1844), built a 25-room country manor in Staatsburg overlooking the river. The 1,600-acre parcel belonged to his wife, Gertrude Livingston (l. 1757-1833), whose family lived north of the village in Clermont. The original house burned down in 1832, and Lewis ...
To the south were the Mills' neighbors and relatives, the Hoyts, who had their own mansion, The Point, on a high crest of a hill with a wide river view. Historian Francis R. Kowsky notes that the house was a two and a half story bluestone in the style of Hudson River Gothic, designed by Calvert Vaux (l. 1824-1895) and goes on to describe the way th...
On the other side of Staatsburgh estate rose the towers of The Locusts which was first developed by Henry Brockholst Livingston (l. 1757-1823) in 1797 and named after the black locust trees which grew abundantly on the grounds. His property included a half-mile along the Hudson River and over a thousand acres of land. In 1871 the successful shippin...
To the north of The Locusts was the fourth estate known as Hopeland which was first developed in 1859 by Major Rawlins Lowndes and his wife Gertrude Livingston who had Calvert Vaux design their house as he had The Point. In 1907 the architect and tennis celebrity Robert Palmer Huntington (l. 1869-1949) acquired the 300-acre (120 ha) property and en...
Helen Hull inherited The Locusts (from her grandfather) and Hopeland (from her father) and disposed of them both. At some point between 1940 and 1950 she had the mansion at Hopeland dismantled by local workers, who used the windows, doors, and trim in other projects in the community, and then had the house destroyed. She retained the land, however,...
The Gilded Age of the very rich passed into memory with the advent of income tax in the United States in 1913 and the War Revenue Act of 1917 which taxed the rich further to help pay for World War I. The stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s contributed to the decline of the estates and descendants of the Gilded Age milli...
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Today, New York Mills is a city of 1,195 residents and has developed into a progressive, forward-thinking community. A large number of immigrants of Finnish descent were among those choosing New York Mills as home.
