The Wawayanda Patent of March 5, 1703 brought more than 150,000 acres—including the lands of the present day village of Unionville and townships of Minisink, Greenville, and Wawayanda—into the ownership of the Colony of New York. The governor of New York and New Jersey at that time, Lord Cornbury, then granted the land to twelve
My second search for the 41st mile marker of the NY-NJ border was successful! My good friend Matt and I followed the old survey information walking 200 paces south from the now-nonexistent “Clark’s barn” to a site “between two roads” where after a short search we found the boundary marker. This is not the original
In Ruttenber and Clark’s 1881 “History of Orange County New York” it is noted that “The Methodist Episcopal Church of Greenville executed a certificate of incorporation Dec. 23, 1850.” [The Methodist Episcopal denomination was a forerunner of the United Methodist Church.] Yet, the church is certainly older than that date. The same volume notes “The
What was the date of the founding of the Greenville (NY) United Methodist Church? Read More »
