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Identifier: dearoldgreenecou00gall (find matches)
Title: Dear old Greene County; embracing facts and figures. Portraits and sketches of leading men who will live in her history, those at the front to-day and others who made good in the past
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gallt, Frank A
Subjects: Greene County (N.Y.) -- History Greene County (N.Y.) -- Biography
Publisher: Catskill, N.Y.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ga and Hudson River Road was built and someof its grade may be seen today. It had a terminal at Athens andgreat promise. Daniel Drew the steamboat man sold it in 1867 tothe Central and they abandoned it. The West Shore railroad opened for business in 1882. The Stony Clove road was opened in 1882. The Catskill Mountain Railroad also in 1882.88 DEAR OLD GREENE COUNTY. The Kaaterskill Railroad in 1883. The Tannersville railroad in 1892. The Otis Elevated Railroad August 4th, 1892. The South C!airo and East Durham road—never built. Several trolley roads were pro.iected but never built, thoughwork was started on one from Coxsackie to Greenville, and somework was done on the Catskill to Oneonta line. The Catskill street railroad was built in 1890 and finishedto Leeds in 1892. At the present it is being operated by a receiverfor the second time Among the men who have spent large sumsto make the road a success are F. N. Da Bois, H C. Cowan, andWilliam P. Fiero, former senator, now deceased.
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The First Railroad Traiti in Greene County.It may be interesting to note that the Catskill Cana.joharierailroad was along with a number of other roads an expensiveproposition for the state. The state loaned $3,478,000 to thebuilding of six railroads, and the Catskill road got $100,000. Theroads were all failures and the state lost $1,000,000 in the enter-prises. The capital stock of the Catskill road was $1,000,000 andno one knows what it cost. The Albany-Schenectady road builtabout the same time, 17 miles, cost $1,711,412 and the Catskillroad was built to Cooksburgh, 26 miles. It is a fact that the first300 miles of railroad cost over $15,000,000. And nobody ever saidthe stock was watered. Even the Erie railroad was unable to payits interest and had to be advertised for sale. The Ithaca roadbrought $4500. The Catskill road, as we have stated, 111,000. 89 DEAR OLD GREENE COUNTY. We are indebted to Mrs. lienjaniin Wiltse for the illustra-tion of the locomotive and the coach passenger c

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