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    Highland and the Town of Lloyd
    Highland and the Town of Lloyd
    Highland and the Town of Lloyd
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    Highland and the Town of Lloyd

    By Ethan P. Jackman

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    The town of Lloyd was first settled in 1754, when Anthony Yelverton brought equipment for a sawmill across the Hudson River. In addition to his sawmill, he built a brickyard and conducted a store in the lower level of his house. The riverfront became the town of Lloyd s first business district. This area was later called Highland Landing, for the new village of Highland that developed on the higher ground above the landing. In the 19th century, steamboats carried freight and passengers from Highland to New York City, and ferryboats crossed the Hudson River to Poughkeepsie several times every day. With the completion of the West Shore Railroad in 1883, the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge and the Central New England Railway in 1888, and a trolley line going west in 1897, Highland could rightfully claim that it was the Gateway to Ulster County.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateJul 27, 2009
    ISBN9781439622049
    Highland and the Town of Lloyd
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    Ethan P. Jackman

    Ethan P. Jackman holds a master�s degree from Columbia University, was a four-term president of the Town of Lloyd Historical Preservation Society, and served as town historian in 2008 and 2009. Vivian Yess Wadlin earned a bachelor�s degree at Marist College, serves on the boards of many local organizations, and is publisher of Ulster County�s About Town.

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      INTRODUCTION

      The present-day town of Lloyd was originally the eastern part of New Paltz Township. The Huguenot founders of New Paltz were quite content with their settlement on the Wallkill River, and at first they paid little attention to the eastern part of their domain.

      The first settlement in present-day Lloyd was near the Hudson River. In 1754, Anthony Yelverton, the son of a Poughkeepsie magistrate of the same name, came across the river with equipment to start a sawmill. He built a house for himself partly with the timbers from an old boat, and today that house is the oldest wooden building still standing on its original site in Ulster County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

      Yelverton also needed bricks for the fireplaces in his house, so he started a brickyard to make them. When more settlers arrived, he opened Lloyd’s first store in the lower level of his house. He also started the first ferry service to Poughkeepsie, using flat boats rowed by slaves.

      The settlement at the river was at first called Yelverton’s Landing. After Valentine Baker built an inn at the landing in 1785, the area was called Baker’s Landing for awhile, later New Paltz Landing, and finally Highland Landing.

      During the War for Independence there were no battles fought in the area, but in the fall of 1777, British general John Vaughan sailed up the Hudson River with a large fleet and 1,600 troops that were headed for Saratoga to join Gen. John Burgoyne. All along their route, the British shot hot cannon balls to set fire to colonists’ property, but they missed Yelverton’s holdings. When excavations were made for a new sewer plant opposite the Yelverton house, British cannonballs were unearthed. Vaughan reached Kingston on October 16, 1777, and burned the city. But he was too late to accomplish his real mission; by the time his troops reached Saratoga, General Burgoyne had already surrendered.

      Although Yelverton came through the British foray unscathed, he suffered a great loss some years later. Legend has it that while crossing the river on his ferry, the boat capsized. Yelverton was able to swim to the shore, but about a dozen of his slaves drowned. It is believed that the slaves are buried on the hill behind the house. Yelverton continued to operate the ferry service until his death in 1792, and Noah Elting then began to operate a ferry service to Poughkeepsie.

      An observer in 1795 described the ferryboat as a large raft-like boat with a sail and large sweeps [oars] for sculling [rowing]. It could carry a few wagons and passengers. Some later ferries on the Hudson River were powered by horses on treadmills, until steam power took over after 1820. During most of the 19th century, steamboats carried freight and passengers from the riverfront landing to New York City.

      There are no incorporated villages in the town of Lloyd, but the largest community is Highland. While the earliest settlement in Lloyd was at the riverfront, inland from the river other settlers were starting farms in the late 1700s. Around 1820, one of the farmers, Philip Elting, who owned much of the land where the Highland business district is today, decided to start his own village. He built several stores and donated land for the first Methodist church building where the route between Newburgh and Kingston intersected with the road to the river. Skeptics ridiculed Elting’s enterprise as Philip’s Folly and Cow Town, but gradually the new village began to grow.

      As early as 1833, settlers in the eastern part of the township circulated petitions to secede from New Paltz, and the state legislature established the Town of Lloyd in 1845. There are several theories about why the name Lloyd was chosen, but the origin of that name is shrouded in mystery. What is known is that the original spelling was Loyd, and a post office named Loyd opened five miles west of the river in 1844. The records of the legislative proceedings in the 1840s referred to the proposed town as Loyd, but when the act establishing the new town was finally passed and published, the name was spelled Lloyd, so that is the official spelling.

      The first post office in the town was established in 1821 and named New Paltz Landing. It was located in a now-forgotten village called Nippityville, north of Elting’s new village, at the junction of North Road and Grand Street. Even after the separation of Lloyd from New Paltz Township in 1845, mail coming to the eastern part of Lloyd had to be addressed to New Paltz Landing and often wound up in the village of New Paltz by mistake. In 1865, a meeting was held to address that issue and the fact that Elting’s village never had an official name. Although there are different opinions about who suggested the name of Highland, that was the name which was chosen, probably because the village was on the highland above the river.

      As time progressed, many businesses at the riverfront relocated to Philip Elting’s new village, especially after several fires destroyed much of the commercial area at the river. But Highland was not immune to fires, and on March 17, 1891, the west side of

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