BOYD'S NEW YORK STATE DIRECTORY

1872-1873

FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY

Claverack, Columbia Co.

Page 902

  Is a very pretty village situated on an undulating slope or small hills.  It is 3 1-2 miles east from Hudson and 13 miles south-west from Chatham, on the Boston & Albany R. R.  Claverack proper, or Claverack Hill, contains 3 churches, viz, Episcopal, Methodist and Reformed Presbyterian, one very large college and academy, 1 flour and grist mill, 1 extensive and well cultivated nursery, and one very fine new hotel, with all the modern improvements, pleasantly situated and in itself an attraction to summer pleasure seekers.

Aiken, R., hosiery manufacture

Clark, F. P., general store

CLAVERACK COLLEGE & HUDSON RIVER INSTITUTE, Rev. Alonzo Flock, A. M., president

Cole, J. H., physician, Columbia

Colgrove, J. S., country store, Columbia

Colwell, Chas., blacksmith

Hermance, Herman C., saloon

Heermence, P. W., grocer, Columbia

LASHER, A. W. carriages and sleighs, Columbia

LAWRENCE HOUSE, Henry Lawrence, prop. Columbia [see ad on above page]

Minkler, D. S., carriage trimmer, Columbia

Myer, R. B., blacksmith, Columbia

Neefus, G. W., postmaster and shoemaker, Columbia

Philip, James F., physician, Church

Pulver, Peter S., flour and grist mill, Columbia

Smith, John P., saw mill

Studley, E. G., nursery

Studley, J. J., station agent, B. & A. R. R.

Van Deusen, A. R., physician, Columbia

Van Deusen, Cornelius & son, blacksmiths and wagons

Wurter, Gottleib, shoemaker, Church