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Three local sites added to historic register

Mar 16, 2018 2:15 pm
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced March 16 that the New York State Board for Historic Preservation has recommended adding 20 properties, including three locally, to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. They include:

• Spencertown Historic District, Spencertown - The Columbia County hamlet is an exceptionally intact example of a 19th-century rural town center which originated along a Colonial highway linking Hartford, Connecticut, with Albany and organized around small grist- and saw-mill sites on the Punsit Creek.

• Austerlitz Historic District, Austerlitz - The district of 37 properties includes homes from the late 18th century to 1870, as well as a church, hotel, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop and two cemeteries, which generally reflect the architecture of southwestern New England, from whence Austerlitz families came.

• Haines Family Cemetery, Haines Falls - The central feature of this cemetery is an obelisk erected in 1884 in honor of Aaron Haines (1802-1883), which identifies the burial ground as the final resting place of members of his immediate and extended family, who were pioneers in 19th century Catskill tourism.