Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Saugerties, New York

Saugerties is a town in the northeastern corner of Ulster County, New York. The population was 19,038 at the become old of the 2020 Census, a fall from 19,482 in 2010. The village of the thesame name is located enormously within the town.

Part of the town is inside Catskill Park. U.S. Route 9W and New York State Route 32 pass through the town, converging at the center of the village and overlapping to the south. These routes parallel the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), which passes through the town just west of the village of Saugerties.

In the 1650s, Barent Cornelis Volge operated a sawmill on the Sawyer’s Kill, supplying lumber for the manor of Rensselaerswick. He had secured a title from the Esopus Sachem to this home sometime since 1663. Volge likely left the area at the outbreak of the first Esopus War in 1658. The “footpath to Albany” was not laid out until 1670. In April 1677, Governor Edmund Andros purchased estate from the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan tribe, for the price of a fragment of cloth, a blanket, some improper fiber, a loaf of bread, and a shirt. The Mynderse House was built by John Persen, formerly of Kingston, an forward mill owner, circa 1685.