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Town of Warwick & Sugar Loaf, NY

SCANNED NEWSPAPERS

AROUND TOWN - PLACES AND RESOURCES

MISSING EARLY RECORDS

A NOTE ABOUT MISSING HISTORICAL RECORDS FOR GOSHEN AREA

Due to two fires in Goshen (April, 1841 and 1843), many of the Goshen Precinct early records were destroyed.  A few are transcribed or extracted, in Ruttenber and Clark's History of Orange County.

 

 

MAPS

Click on "Maps" in the directory below, or follow this link:  https://guides.rcls.org/WarwickMaps/Historical

SEARCH HELP

Use this to search many of the webpages on this site, but it does not search in the Warwick Heritage Digital Collection or the scanned newspapers-- you must search these separately by clicking on the links and following the directions.

NEW!

TEACHER'S GUIDE to incorporating local history into the classroom curriculum. (Mid-Hudson region).

Video of talk on HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT ("Frank Forester") given by Jerry Kuntz Oct. 15, 2023.

GENEALOGY & HISTORICAL RESEARCH DATABASES

Our Databases:

The library provides commercial databases for AWPL cardholders to assist with historical & family history research.  All except Ancestry Library Edition are available to you from home with your library card.

Access the databases here: http://guides.rcls.org/c.php?g=128571&p=839608

Orange County Clerk's Office Property Records

Scans of the deed and mortgage books and indexes are available on Familysearch.org, a free site.  There is no searchability, you must check the scans of the index volumes to locate Liber and Page.

 

 

EBOOKS

The following is a partial list of books about Warwick and Orange County history that are full text and in a PDF format you can download to your computer or device; you can find links to more ebooks and e-documents in the Warwick Heritage Database.

Basics: Short Histories of the Warwick Valley:

General Orange County History:

Warwick  & Sugar Loaf Specific Works:

  • Bellvale Rising Star by Thomas Burt (newspaper published 1 year about Bellvale, 1889)
  • Black Jacob by A. D. Eddy. The inspiring life story of Jacob Hodges of Sugar Loaf, who was coerced into the murder of Richard Jennings, then reformed.
  • History of Orange County by Ruttenber & Clark (1881; Warwick chapter only)
  • Memoirs of Hon. Nathaniel Jones U.S. House of Representatives 1837-1841, lived in Warwick, many local anecdotes.
  • Report of the Trial of The Murderers of Richard Jennings; pamphlet from the collection of the archive of the Warwick Historical Society (1819; murder occurred in Sugar Loaf)
  • Under Old Rooftrees by Eliza Benedict Hornby (1908).  Collection of facts and stories about Warwick Valley life in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Lifestyles, weather, weddings, slaves, folkways, etc.
  • Warwick Woodlands  by Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert).  Classic field sports/hunting narrative, 1840s.