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§9 Rock City
R. A Davis
Rock City1 is a hamlet west of Milan village that had a grist mill, a saw mill and 20 houses in 1840. It was formerly called Travers Mill. The Post Office ran from 1835 to 1904.
That Name
The hamlet of Rock City2 lies in the western part of the town of Milan, and derives its name from the rocky nature of the surrounding soil.3History
People
From Smith4- Huffman, R. A. V.
- Hotel proprietor, owns two acres, b. in Rensselaer county in 1823, settled in this county in 1825; wife Josephine Ham, b. in Columbia county in 1842, m. 1862; children four. Father George N. Huffman, b. 1790; wife b. 1791.
- Morehouse, Ezra L.
- Deputy sheriff, b. Milan 1838, has been justice of peace and constable; wife Phoebe Thom, b. 1838, m. 14 Mar 1860; one daughter. Grandfather b. in Bridgeport, CT, came to this county in 1803.
- Shoemaker, William E.
- Vosburgh, Frank
- Farmer, 86 acres, b. Red Hook 1851. Excise commissioner one term; wife Delia F. Stall, of Green Bush, m. 1873; children three. Father Martin Vosburgh, d.ca. 1870; mother living with Charles in Stanford, æ ca. 82.
Businesses
An 1882 history5 notes that Rock City...:[...] contains a population of fifty-six, according to the census of 1880.Henry D. Ostrum is the postmaster here, appointed fourteen years ago. He is the only merchant, succeeding Chancellor Wildey, who had previously conducted the business some four years.
A hotel is kept here by Ralph A. V. Hoffman, who has been in that business nearly fourteen years.
This place has also a saw and grist-mill — the property of John G. Schultz — the former run by David Tipple, the latter by William A. Coons, and a saw-mill conducted by Nicholas Eighmy.
A shoe-shop (Eli Feroe), and a blacksmith shop (Andrew J. Caroll), concludes the list of business places of the Hamlet.
Maps
Notes:
(Click the << symbols to return to the text — or use your browser's BACK button.)- << Wikipedia: Milan, New York [ref: 9/2012]
- << Smith, James H.; History of Dutchess County, New York; Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co. 1882; p. 215
- << Said the farmer after hitting a dozen rocks in the first hour of plowing: "This is a rock city!"
- << Smith, James H.; op cit p. xiv-xv
- << Smith, James H.; op cit p. 215
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