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These pages were last updated: Tuesday, 23-Apr-2013 12:00:39 MDT

Town Clerk's Office

Carmel Town Hall

• 60 McAlpin Avenue, Mahopac, NY 10541
• Phone: 845-628-1500

Town Library

Reed Memorial Library

• 1733 Route 6, Carmel, NY 10512
• Phone: 845-225-2439

Mahopac Library

• 668 Route Six, Mahopac, NY 10541
• Phone: 845-628.2009

Historical Society

Town of Carmel Historian

• 60 McAlpin Avenue, Mahopac, NY 10541
• Contact: Town Historian

Cemeteries

Some inscriptions for the following cemeteries have been listed in Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County" and the links given will take you to the transcribed pages on this site. Additionally, you should view the cemetery page to see what else is available on microfilm at the Family History Centers or what has been published.

• Gilead Burying Ground
• Raymond Cemetery
• The Methodist Episcopal Church Burying Grounds
• Lake Mahopac Methodist Church and Burying Ground
• Union Valley Cemetery and Chapel
• Red Mills Baptist Church Burying Ground
• Red Mills Presbyterian Church Burying Ground
• Carver Family Burying Ground

History

In 1886, William S. Pelletreau published his "History of Putnam County, New York with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men". Check the Table of Contents for this book and find out what pages may have been transcribed and posted to this site. For those chapters specifically relating to Carmel, see:

• Chapter XIX
• Chapter XX
• Chapter XXI

Don't overlook any of the Biographical Sketches listed either throughout the text (see table of contents for each chapter) or at the end of the book in Chapter XXIX. A digital copy of this book can also be viewed and downloaded for free from the Internet Archives.

French's Gazetteer of the State OF New York is an important resource for researchers in New York State. It was published in 1860 and, as its title identifies, it gave a "...Comprehensive View of the Geography, Geology, and General History of the State and A complete History and Description of Every County, City, Town, Village, and Locality."

Bibliography

• Cole Greene, Marilyn. Town Minutes, Town of Carmel, Putnam Co., New York, 1795-1839
• Howe, Abba Laura, Historian, et alia. Brewster Through the Years 1848-1948 (privately published)
• Wheeler, Glendon E. Carmel Newspapers, Putnam Co, NY Marriages and Deaths 1849-1873, 207 pp, with index, hardbound, 1998 [Source: Kinship website]

Newspapers

Some copies of the newspaper The Putnam County Republican for the 1940s and 1950s can be viewed online for free at the website entitled Old Fulton Post Cards.

Miscellaneous Other Links of Interest

• Putnam County Visitors' Bureau site.
• "Road Trip: Brewster, NY" by Ren Vasiliev, American Demographics, November 1996. This brief article gives a view of Brewster.

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