North Greenbush Notes

North Greenbush Notes are a compilation of articles written by Town Historian Jim Greenfield that show a brief glimpse of North Greenbush at its founding. The articles are published periodically in “The Advertiser.” If anyone has ideas for future columns, please contact Jim Greenfield at 283‑6384 or by email.

2013

The Battle of Belltop School (40.65 KB)
Justice of the Peace (41.8 KB)
The Phillips Or Vandenburg House (42.58 KB)

2012

A Wynantskill Landmark (56.41 KB)
John W. Defreest — Civil War Vet. (55.75 KB)
Building Boom at Snyders Lake (56.19 KB)
Greenbush in the War of 1812 (55.87 KB)
Wynantskill Businesses in 1876 (56.79 KB)
Harold Rowe (54.14 KB)
Growing Pains at the Wynantskill Reformed Church: Part I (57 KB)
Growing Pains at the Wynantskill Reformed Church: Part II (56.82 KB)
The St. Jude’s Horse Show (55.56 KB)

2011

A Farmer’s Life in the 1800s (56.3 KB)
Bits of History from Snyders Lake (56.34 KB)
North Greenbush in the Civil War (56.61 KB)
Businesses in Defreestville (56.22 KB)
North Greenbush Farms Part 2 (55.45 KB)
North Greenbush Police History (11.65 KB)
North Greenbush in the Revolutionary War (56.4 KB)
Wynantskill’s White House (54.29 KB)

2010 

Wynantskill Schools (55.28 KB)
North Greenbush Loses a Link to History (Dorothy Phillips Death) (63.14 KB)

 

2009

Housing Developments in North Greenbush (57.73 KB)
Wynantskill Businesses 50 Years Ago (11.29 KB)
Morgan Spring Water (56.57 KB)
Border Wars (54.93 KB)
Road Repair in the Old Days (75.74 KB)
North Greenbush Farms (63.27 KB)
Early Religious Life in North Greenbush (55.75 KB)
The Hidleys of North Greenbush (55.93 KB)
Sharpes of North Greenbush (55.38 KB)
Wynantskill’s Building Boom (56.06 KB)

2008

Old and New at RPI Tech Park (54.95 KB)
The Little Red Schoolhouse (65.11 KB)
The Excelsior House at Snyders Lake (63.9 KB)
Historical Potpourri (61.66 KB)
Thomas Twiss, Indian Agent (62.18 KB)
The Defreest Family (62.19 KB)
The Geerholt-Rehm VFW (62.14 KB)

2007 

Vandenburghs of North Greenbush (61.8 KB)
The Names of Our Roads (62.04 KB)
A Memorable Election (1977 Election) (65.79 KB)
Sharpe’s Grove (60.97 KB)
The Great Wynantskill Explosion (63.03 KB)
Bailey Mt. Fish and Game Club (62.35 KB)
Bath — Our Former Village (72.97 KB)
The History of Snyders Lake (73.63 KB)
The Mohicans in Greenbush (64.61 KB)
Ice Harvesting (61.67 KB)
Milk Deliveries (65.37 KB)
Slavery In Greenbush (57.23 KB)
Alfred and Delia Koon Residence (64.57 KB)
Two Jims in North Greenbush Politics (63.62 KB)

 

2006

Francis Houser Store (65.28 KB)
John E. VanAlen (62.98 KB)
Rensselaerwyck Land Leases (62.33 KB)
Murder Most Foul! (Morner Family Murders) (67.62 KB)
Bell Top School (62.8 KB)
Bellinger Church (62.38 KB)
Trolleys (62.62 KB)
Abram Witbeck, Our First Supervisor (66.11 KB)
Defreest Hotel (63.26 KB)
Early Roads (63.73 KB)
Happy Birthday North Greenbush (73.96 KB)
Memorial Day (David M. DeFreest) (66.57 KB)