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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 537 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CATSKILL , a See also:

VILLAGE

village and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Greene county, New See also:

York, U.S.A., on the W. See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Hudson See also:

RIVER

river, 33 m. S. of See also:

Albany. Pop. (189o) 4920; (1900) 5484; of whom 657 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910) 5296. It is served by the See also:

West See also:

SHORE

Shore railway, by severs] lines of river steamboats, and by the Catskill See also:

Mountain railway, connecting it with the popular summer resorts in the Catskill mountains. A See also:

ferry connects with Catskill station (Greendale) on the See also:

east See also:

side of the Hudson. The village is in a farming See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and manufactures woollen goods and bricks, but it is best known as a summer resort, and as the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal gateway to the beautiful Catskill Mountain region. The See also:

Recorder, a weekly newspaper, was established here in 1792 as the Packet. The first settler on the See also:

PRESENT

present site of Catskill was See also:

DERRICK

Derrick See also:

TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

Tennis See also:

VAN

van Vechten, who built a See also:

house here in 1680. The village was not incorporated until 18o6. See J. D.

See also:

Pinckney, Reminiscences of Catskill (Catskill, 1868).

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