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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 537 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATSKILL  , a

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village and the
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county-seat of
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Greene county, New
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York, U.S.A., on the W.
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bank of the
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Hudson
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river, 33 m . S. of
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Albany . Pop . (189o) 4920; (1900) 5484; of whom 657 were
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foreign-
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born; (1910) 5296 . It is served by the
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West
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Shore railway, by severs] lines of river steamboats, and by the Catskill
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Mountain railway, connecting it with the popular summer resorts in the Catskill mountains . A
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ferry connects with Catskill station (Greendale) on the
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east
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side of the Hudson . The village is in a farming
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country, and manufactures woollen goods and bricks, but it is best known as a summer resort, and as the
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principal gateway to the beautiful Catskill Mountain region . The
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Recorder, a weekly newspaper, was established here in 1792 as the Packet . The first settler on the
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present site of Catskill was
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Derrick
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Tennis
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van Vechten, who built a
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house here in 1680 . The village was not incorporated until 18o6 . See J . D .

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Pinckney, Reminiscences of Catskill (Catskill, 1868) .

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