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Eswood Community Consolidated School District 269
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Jersey Community Unit School District 100
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Wabash & Ohio Valley Special Education
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Grant Community Consolidated School District 110
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Galena Unit School District 120
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Sunnybrook School District 171
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Chaney-Monge School District 88
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Urbana School District 116
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Summit Hill School District 161
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Prairie Central Community Unit School District 8
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Sandwich Community Unit School District 430
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North Chicago School District 187
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Stark County Community Unit School District 100
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Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8
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Southland College Prep Charter
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West Lincoln-Broadwell School District 92
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Plano Area Special Education Cooperative
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Mattoon Community Unit School District 2
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Tri-County Special Education
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Brookfield School District 95
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Tri City Community Unit School District 1
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Waterloo Community Unit School District 5
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Burbank School District 111
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Perandoe Special Education
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Cahokia Community Unit School District 187
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Technology Center DuPage County
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St. Joseph Ogden Community High School 305
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Paris Community Unit School District 4
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Rochester Community Unit School District 3A
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Panhandle Community Unit School District 2
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Maywood School District 89
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Komarek School District 94
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Indian Springs School District 109
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Limestone Community High School District 310
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Hinckley Big Rock Community Unit School District 429
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Lindop School District 92
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East St. Louis School District 189
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Jasper County Community Unit School District 1
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Armstrong-Ellis Consolidated School District 61
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Willow Springs School District 108
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Manhattan School District 114
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West Washington Community Unit School District 10
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Vandalia Community Unit School District 203
$110,497
Ogle County Special Education
$110,472
Frankfort Community Consolidated School District 157C
$110,453
Prairie Hill Community Consolidated School District 133
$110,452
South Holland School District 151
$110,436
Berwyn South School District 100
$110,321
Jonesboro Community Consolidated School District 43
$110,277
Vermilion Association Special Education
$110,266
Princeton Elementary School District 115
$110,196
Gallatin Community Unit School District 7
$110,181
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 5
$110,176
Collinsville Community Unit School District 10
$110,029
Black Hawk Area Special Education
$110,021
North Mac Community Unit School District 34
$110,001
Unity Point Community Consolidated School District 140
$109,871
Beardstown Community Unit School District 15
$109,821
Lincoln Elementary School District 27
$109,813
Salem Community High School District 600
$109,630
Special Education of Peoria County
$109,482
Chicago Read Mental Health Center
$109,406
Rooks Creek Community Consolidated School District 425
$109,386
Somonauk Community Unit School District 432
$109,374
Pekin Public School District 108
$109,373
Robinson Community Unit School District 2
$109,351
Olympia Community Unit School District 16
$109,334
Montmorency Community Consolidated School District 145
$109,147
Streator Woodland Community Unit School District 5
$109,063
Meridian Community Unit School District 101
$109,050
Mokena School District 159
$109,009
Winnebago County Special Education
$108,982
Herscher Community Unit School District 2
$108,921
Pembroke Community Consolidated School District 259
$108,874
Cicero School District 99
$108,831
Dodds Community Consolidated School District 7
$108,808
Brooklyn Unit School District 188
$108,804
Riverdale Community Unit School District 100
$108,691
Bourbonnais School District 53
$108,579
Morris School District 54
$108,567
Cobden Unit District 17
$108,461
Joliet School District 86
$108,356
St. Rose School District 14
$108,263
Bartelso School District 57
$108,123
Pecatonica Community Unit School District 321
$108,101
Midwest Central Community Unit School District 191
$108,051
Thomasboro Community Consolidated School District 130
$108,042
Pleasant Hill School District 69
$108,039
Mid-State Special Education
$107,953
Champaign-Ford Counties Regional Office of Education
$107,886
St. Elmo Community Unit School District 202
$107,882
Rantoul City School District 137
$107,856
North Pekin-Marquette Heights School District
$107,855
Eldorado Community Unit School District 4
$107,802
Scales Mound Community Unit School District 211
$107,778
Harvard Community Unit School District 50
$107,738
Lowpoint-Washburn Community Unit School District 21
$107,719
Dunlap Community Unit School District 323
$107,715
Hamilton County Community Unit School District 10
$107,683
New Simpson Hill Consolidated School District 32
$107,632
Illini West High School District 307
$107,623
Champaign Community Unit School District 4
$107,569
Hiawatha Community Unit School District 426
$107,544
Saratoga Community Consolidated School District 60C
$107,541
Teutopolis Community Unit School District 50
$107,503
South Fork School District 14
$107,453
Argenta-Oreana Community Unit School District 1
$107,445
Central A & M Community Unit School District 21
$107,170
Peoria School District 150
$107,164
Lyons School District 103
$107,080
ROWVA Community Unit School District 208
$107,031
Monticello Community Unit School District 25
$107,001
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60
$106,952
Stockton Community Unit School District 206
$106,923
Atwood Heights School District 125
$106,819
Blue Ridge Community Unit School District 18
$106,806
Henry-Senachwine Community Unit School District 5
$106,800
Paris-Union School District 95
$106,797
Country Club Hills School District 160
$106,765
Big Hollow School District 38
$106,754
Camp Point Community Unit School District 3
$106,706
Lincoln Elementary School District 156
$106,632
Harrisburg Community Unit School District 3
$106,626
Regional Office of Education 51
$106,612
Huntley Consolidated School District 158
$106,604
Carmi-White County Community Unit School District 5
$106,546
Momence Community Unit School District 1
$106,410
Matteson Elementary School District 162
$106,393
Richland County Community Unit School District 1
$106,356
Trico Community Unit School District 176
$106,347
High Mount School District 116
$106,308
Coulterville Unit School District 1
$106,276
Decatur School District 61
$106,268
Putnam County Community Unit School District 535
$106,266
Manteno Community Unit School District 5
$106,180
Patoka Community Unit School District 100
$106,137
Four Rivers Special Education
$106,119
Illinois State Board Of Education
$106,072
Salt Fork Community Unit School District 512
$105,966
El Paso - Gridley Community Unit School District 11
$105,953
Auburn Community Unit School District 10
$105,917
South Central Community Unit School District 401
$105,872
Sullivan Community Unit School District 300
$105,735
Smithton Community Consolidated School District 130
$105,729
Freeport School District 145
$105,638
Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36
$105,621
Rockdale School District 84
$105,481
Shelbyville Community Unit School District 4
$105,471
Bureau Valley Community Unit School District 340
$105,461
Gillespie Community Unit School District 7
$105,262
Germantown School District 60
$105,091
Illinois Valley Central 321
$104,912
Thompsonville Community Unit School District 174
$104,903
Williamsville Community Unit School District 15
$104,888
Robein School District 85
$104,852
Madison Community Unit School District 12
$104,778
Jacksonville School District 117
$104,773
Illini Central Community Unit School District 189
$104,736
Bellwood School District 88
$104,732
Boone-Winnebago Counties Regional Office of Education
$104,726
Channahon School District 17
$104,650
Rantoul Twp High School District 193
$104,638
Mt. Vernon School District 80
$104,593
Litchfield Community Unit School District 12
$104,554
Aviston School District 21
$104,475
Bluford Community Consolidated School District 114
$104,398
South Beloit Community Unit School District 320
$104,336
Mt. Vernon Township High School District 201
$104,299
Ford Heights School District 169
$104,284
District 50 Schools
$104,186
Carrollton Community Unit School District 1
$104,029
Edwards County Community Unit School District 1
$103,941
Tremont Community Unit School District 702
$103,766
Beecher Community Unit School District 200U
$103,752
Tri-County Special Education Cooperative
$103,693
North Wamac School District 186
$103,459
Tuscola Community Unit School District 301
$103,175
Dieterich Community Unit School District 30
$103,174
Metamora Community Consolidated School District 1
$103,163
Alton Community Unit School District 11
$103,068
St. Joseph Community Consolidated School District 169
$103,065
Sangamon Area Special Education
$103,057
Selmaville Community Consolidated School District 10
$102,902
Princeville Community Unit School District 326
$102,810
V I T Community Unit School District 2
$102,787
Fairfield Public School District 112
$102,785
Cerro Gordo Community Unit School District 100
$102,665
Spring Valley Community Consolidated School District 99
$102,531
Tolono Community Unit School District 7
$102,427
Breese School District 12
$102,392
Troy Community Consolidated School District 30C
$102,351
Taylorville Community Unit School District 3
$102,331
Colona School District 190
$102,261
East Peoria School District 86
$102,221
Norwood Elementary School District 63
$102,185
Peru Elementary School District 124
$102,165
Lena Winslow Community Unit School District 202
$102,140
Mt. Olive Unit School District 5
$101,986
Oglesby Elementary School District 125
$101,963
Steeleville Community Unit School District 138
$101,716
Hazel Crest School District 152 5
$101,698
St. Libory Consolidated School District 30
$101,647
North Boone Community Unit School District 200
$101,643
Bunker Hill Community Unit School District 8
$101,623
Wethersfield Community Unit School District 230
$101,554
Egyptian Community Unit School District 5
$101,545
Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9
$101,493
Altamont Community Unit School District 10
$101,491
Germantown Hills School District 69
$101,460
DeLand-Weldon Community Unit School District 57
$101,438
Mendota Community Consolidated School District 289
$101,317
Riverton Community Unit School District 14
$101,235
Hardin County Community Unit School District 1
$101,200
Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elementary School District 2C
$101,187
West Carroll Community Unit School District 314
$101,150
Berkeley School District 87
$101,007
Woodlawn Community High School District 205
$100,940
Delavan Community Unit School District 703
$100,848
Hutsonville Community Unit School District 1
$100,791
Galatia Community Unit School District 1
$100,767
Porta Community Unit School District 202
$100,752
Neoga Community Unit School District 3
$100,693
New Athens Community Unit School District 60
$100,638
Tamaroa School District 5
$100,604
Red Bud Community Unit School District 132
$100,428
Zeigler Royalton Community Unit School District 188
$100,404
Grant Park Community Unit School District 6
$100,348
Union School District 81
$100,311
Kings Consolidated School District 144
$100,272
Joppa-Maple Grove Unit School District 38
$100,255
Amboy Community Unit School District 272
$100,001
Casey Westfield Community Unit School District 4C
$99,886
Illini Bluffs Community Unit School District 327
$99,806
Oak Grove East School District 68
$99,771
Cook County School District 130
$99,667
Albers School District 63
$99,640
Summersville School District 79
$99,618
Brown County Community Unit School District 1
$99,518
Rockridge Community Unit School District 300
$99,511
Newark Community High School District 18
$99,481
Schuyler - Industry Community Unit School District 5
$99,454
Carrier Mills-Stonefort School District 2
$99,450
Ramsey Community Unit School District 204
$99,426
Prairie Hills Elementary School District 144
$99,384
Meredosia-Chambersburg School District 11
$99,365
Carthage Elementary District 317
$99,363
Milford Township High School District 233
$99,255
Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education at Roosevelt
$99,117
Tazewell County Regional Office of Education
$98,903
Havana Community Unit School District 126
$98,894
Forest Ridge School District 142
$98,872
Hoopeston Area Community Unit School District 11
$98,844
Chicago Heights School District 170
$98,801
A-C Central Community Unit School District 262
$98,767
Monroe School District 70
$98,639
Alden Hebron School District 19
$98,358
Arthur Community Unit School District 305
$98,342
Chadwick Milledgeville School District 399
$98,335
West Central Illinois Special Education Cooperative
$98,261
Durand Community Unit School District 322
$98,257
Bismarck Community Unit School District 1
$98,181
Le Roy Community Unit School District 2
$97,911
Career Center of Southern Illinois
$97,882
Paris Cooperative High School
$97,841
Bement Community Unit School District 5
$97,816
Education For Employment
$97,722
Kane County Regional Office of Education
$97,717
Dimmick Community Consolidated School District 175
$97,598
Community Unit School District 4
$97,510
Williamsfield Community Unit School District 210
$97,417
Peotone Community Unit School District 207
$97,369
Grand Ridge Community Consolidated School District 95
$97,298
Nokomis Community Unit School District 22
$97,293
8 Points Charter School
$97,283
West Prairie Community Unit School District 103
$97,250
Woodford County Special Education
$97,001
Payson Community Unit School District 1
$96,962
Donovan Community Unit School District 3
$96,848
Franklin-Williamson Counties Regional Office of Education
$96,728
JAMP Special Education Services
$96,600
Grass Lake School District 36
$96,577
Akin Community Consolidated School District 91
$96,533
Greenview Community Unit School District 200
$96,467
Clinton-Marion-Washington Regional Office of Education
$96,460
Newark Community Consolidated School District 66
$96,299
Marengo-Union ECSD 165
$96,188
Red Hill Community Unit School District 10
$96,010
Kewanee Community Unit School District 229
$95,984
Morrisonville Community Unit School District 1
$95,865
Posen Robbins Elementary School District 143 5
$95,841
Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186
$95,779
St. George Community Consolidated School District 258
$95,733
Gen George Patton School District 133
$95,645
Quincy School District 172
$95,632
Jamaica Community Unit School District 12
$95,438
Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico School District
$95,437
Marshall Community Unit School District 2C
$95,238
Two Rivers Professional Devlp
$95,130
Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Office of Education
$95,065
Iuka Community Consolidated School District 7
$95,008
New Holland-Middletown Elementary School District
$94,758
Tmcsea
$94,746
Ashley Community Consolidated School District 15
$94,717
Warren Community Unit School District 205
$94,709
Shiloh Community Unit School District 1
$94,700
Georgetown-Ridge Farm Community Unit District 4
$94,694
Northwestern Community Unit School District 2
$94,658
Oblong Community Unit School District 4
$94,524
Cissna Park Community Unit School District 6
$94,490
Elgin Mental Health Center
$94,479
Flora Community Unit School District 35
$94,477
Hoover Schrum School District 157
$94,397
New Berlin Community Unit School District 16
$94,358
Millburn Community Consolidated School District 24
$94,351
Warsaw Community Unit School District 316
$94,289
Wood River-Hartford Elementary School District 15
$94,129
Midland Community Unit School District 7
$93,785
Nettle Creek Community Consolidated School District 24C
$93,579
Pikeland Community Unit School District 10
$93,470
Wayne City Community Unit School District 100
$93,426
Farmington Central Community Unit School District 265
$93,411
Steger School District 194
$93,409
Capital Area Career Center
$93,373
Desoto Community Consolidated School District 86
$93,271
Stewardson-Strasburg Community Unit School District 5
$93,171
Triopia Community Unit School District 27
$93,114
Catlin Community Unit School District 5
$93,056
Vermilion Vocational Education Del System
$93,049
Wabash Community Unit School District 348
$93,014
United School District 304
$93,007
Genoa-Kingston Community Unit School District 424
$92,883
Crescent - Iroquois Community Unit School District 249
$92,830
Brownstown Community Unit School District 201
$92,816
River Bend Community Unit School District 2
$92,785
Limestone Walters Community Consolidated School District 316
$92,743
Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701
$92,696
Tri Point Community Unit School District 6J
$92,605
Cumberland Community Unit School District 77
$92,550
Fisher Community Unit School District 1
$92,544
Rossville-Alvin Community Unit School District 7
$92,373
Sherrard Community Unit School District 200
$92,186
Eastern Illinois Area Special Education Cooperative
$92,166
Oakwood Community Unit School District 76
$92,151
Lisbon Community Consolidated School District 90
$92,148
Heritage Community Unit School District 8
$92,133
Westville Community Unit School District 2
$92,082
Winchester Community Unit School District 1
$92,054
Pleasant Valley School District 62
$92,028
Creston Community Consolidated School District 161
$91,876
Willow Grove School District 46
$91,771
Geff Community Consolidated School District 14
$91,707
Griggsville-Perry Community Unit School District 4
$91,677
Sangamon Valley Community Unit School District 9
$91,673
Waltonville Community Unit School District 1
$91,443
Marseilles Elementary School District 150
$91,214
Athens Community Unit School District 213
$91,141
Dwight Common School District 232
$91,138
Villa Grove Community Unit School District 302
$91,037
Dolton School District 148
$90,920
Sandoval Community Unit School District 501
$90,758
Edinburg Community Unit School District 4
$90,725
Washington School District 52
$90,663
Grayville Community Unit School District 1
$90,644
Abingdon-Avon Community Unit School District 276
$90,543
Shawnee Community Unit School District 84
$90,439
La Moille Community Unit School District 303
$90,413
Norris City-Omaha-Enfield School District
$90,344
Sauk Village Community Consolidated School District 168
$90,239
North Wayne Community Unit School District 200
$90,210
Woodlawn Unit School District 209
$90,101
Hancock-McDonough Counties Regional Office of Education
$90,086
Prairie Du Rocher Community Consolidated School District 134
$89,950
Mercer County School District 404
$89,944
Monmouth - Roseville Community Unit School District 238
$89,891
Ohio Community High School District 505
$89,749
Harrison School District 36
$89,740
Pawnee Community Unit School District 11
$89,737
Shiloh Village School District 85
$89,705
Cairo Community Unit School District 1
$89,595
La Harpe Consolidated School District 347
$89,461
Calhoun Community Unit School District 40
$89,433
Prairieview Ogden Community Consolidated School District 197
$89,365
North Greene Unit School District 3
$89,354
Palestine Community Unit School District 3
$89,222
Odell Community Consolidated School District 435
$89,164
Franklin Community Unit School District 1
$89,060
Lawrence County Community Unit School District 20
$89,041
Cowden-Herrick Community Unit District 3A
$88,911
Knoxville Community Unit School District 202
$88,546
Goreville Community Unit School District 1
$88,527
Giant City Community Consolidated School District 130
$88,405
West Central Community Unit School District 235
$88,349
Pope County Community Unit School District 1
$88,261
Cambridge Community Unit School District 227
$88,217
Regional Vocational System EFE 430
$88,213
Mulberry Grove Community Unit School District 1
$88,206
Field Community Consolidated School District 3
$88,177
Beecher City Community Unit School District 20
$88,063
Alwood Community Unit School District 225
$88,047
Chester-East Lincoln Community Consolidated School District 61
$88,001
Creve Coeur School District 76
$87,996
North Clay Community Unit School District 25
$87,953
Hamilton Community Consolidated School District 328
$87,787
Edgar County Community Unit School District 6
$87,741
Virginia Community Unit School District 64
$87,711
Southeastern Community Unit School District 337
$87,651
Clay City Community Unit School District 10
$87,626
Polo Community Unit School District 222
$87,422
Brookwood School District 167
$86,825
Valmeyer Community Unit School District 3
$86,807
Windsor Community Unit School District 1
$86,599
Bradford Community Unit School District 1
$86,591
Waltham Community Consolidated School District 185
$86,395
Five County Vocational System
$86,359
Greenfield Community Unit School District 10
$86,342
South Pekin School District 137
$86,228
Tonica Community Consolidated School District 79
$86,170
Grand Prairie Community Consolidated School District 6
$85,973
Bartonville School District 66
$85,817
Regional Office of Education 27
$85,734
Century Community Unit School District 100
$85,445
St. Clair County Regional Education Programs
$85,395
Scott-Morgan County Community Unit School District 2
$85,332
Oakland Community Unit School District 5
$85,328
Astoria Community Unit School District 1 5
$85,102
Annawan Community Unit School District 226
$85,011
Miller Township Community Consolidated School District 210
$84,936
Springfield Ball Charter
$84,484
Kansas Community Unit School District 3
$84,434
Martinsville Community Unit School District 3C
$84,424
South Eastern Special Education
$84,046
Woodlawn Community Consolidated School District 4
$83,938
Webber Township High School District 204
$83,815
Ohio Community Consolidated School District 17
$83,450
Galva Community Unit School District 224
$83,287
Hartsburg-Emden Community Unit School District 21
$83,198
Rutland Community Consolidated School District 230
$83,190
Opdyke-Belle Rive Community Consolidated School District 5
$82,947
Abingdon Community Unit School District 217
$82,807
Dalzell School District 98
$82,654
Odin Public School District 722
$82,633
Central City School District 133
$82,628
Irvington Community Consolidated School District 11
$82,605
Orangeville Community Unit School District 203
$82,570
Okaw Valley Community Unit School District 302
$82,502
Rural Champaign County Special Education Cooperative
$81,797
Central School District 51
$81,678
Waverly Community Unit School District 6
$81,560
Arcola Community Unit School District 306
$81,496
Peoria Charter School Initiative
$81,480
Deer Park Community Consolidated School District 82
$81,476
Wilco Area Career Center
$81,125
Community Consolidated School District 204
$80,493
Cypress School District 64
$79,873
New Hope Community Consolidated School District 6
$79,422
Lick Creek Community Consolidated School District 16
$79,377
East Dubuque Unit School District 119
$78,873
Armstrong Township High School District 225
$78,616
Bushnell-Prairie Community Unit School District 170
$78,391
Vienna Township High School District 133
$78,274
Liberty Community Unit School District 2
$78,212
Fairmont School District 89
$78,174
Western Community Unit School District 12
$78,173
Dallas Elementary School District 327
$77,769
Depue Unit School District 103
$77,450
Braceville School District 75
$77,283
Jasper Community Consolidated School District 17
$77,040
Leland Community Unit School District 1
$76,794
Avon Community Unit School District 176
$76,626
Career Development System
$76,623
Cornell Community Consolidated School District 426
$76,584
Allendale Community Consolidated School District 17
$76,032
Rock Island County Regional Office of Education
$75,604
Milford Consolidated School District 280
$75,526
Cherry School District 92
$75,472
Nauvoo-Colusa Community Unit School District 325
$75,265
Spring Lake Community Consolidated School District 606
$74,981
Riverview Community Consolidated School District 2
$74,794
Ludlow Community Consolidated School District 142
$74,461
Elverado Community Unit School District 196
$74,363
Indian Valley Vocational Center
$74,013
Kankakee Area Career Center
$74,010
West Richland Community Unit School District 2
$73,971
LaSalle County Regional Office of Education
$73,903
Calumet Public School District 132
$73,470
Oakdale Community Consolidated School District 1
$73,385
Ina Community Consolidated School District 8
$73,360
Iroquois-Kankakee Counties Regional Office of Education
$72,644
Ladd Community Consolidated School District 94
$72,379
Allen-Otter Creek Community Consolidated School District 65
$72,366
Elwood Community Consolidated School District 203
$72,308
Bethel School District 82
$72,069
Farrington Community Consolidated School District 99
$72,056
Pleasant Hill Community Unit School District 3
$70,520
Buncombe Consolidated School District 43
$69,966
East Coloma School District 12
$69,843
Regional Office of Education 17
$69,811
Career Tec
$69,452
Clark-Coles-Cumberland-Douglas-Edgar-Moultrie-Shelby Regional Office of Education
$68,302
McClellan Community Consolidated School District 12
$68,262
Raccoon Consolidated School District 1
$67,737
Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education
$67,636
Malden Community Consolidated School District 84
$67,015
Calhoun-Greene-Jersey-Macoupin Regional Office of Education
$66,758
Atwood Hammond Community Unit School District 39
$66,508
Edwards-Gallatin-Hardin-Pope-Saline-Wabash Regional Office of Education
$66,038
TAOEP
$65,364
Peoria County Regional Office of Education
$65,317
Lee-Ogle Counties Regional Office of Education
$64,355
Dongola Unit District 66
$63,989
Shirland Community Consolidated School District 134
$62,686
Damiansville School District 62
$62,029
Regional Office of Education 26
$61,693
Brussels Community Unit School District 42
$61,463
Jackson-Perry Counties Regional Office of Education
$60,699
Eastern Illinois Education for Employment
$60,656
South Wilmington Consolidated School District 74
$59,499
Westmer Community Unit School District 203
$58,732
Alexander-Johnson-Massac-Pulaski-Union Regional Office of Education
$58,303
Tomorrows Builders Youthbuild
$57,409
Grundy Area Vocational Center
$57,182
Whiteside County Regional Office of Education
$57,063
Christian-Montgomery Counties Regional Office of Education
$56,559
Clay-Crawford-Jasper-Lawrence-Richland Regional Office of Education
$52,062
Lostant Community Unit School District 425
$50,801
Salt Creek Academy
$50,515
Steward Elementary School District 220
$50,181
Prairie Crossing
$49,654
Nelson Public School District 8
$43,524
Robertson Charter School
$42,010
Bluford Unit School District 318
$37,139
Brown-Cass-Morgan-Scott-Regional Office of Education
$30,082
Regional Office of Education 30
$29,823
De Witt-Livingston-McLean Regional Office of Education
$29,773
Hamilton-Jefferson Counties Regional Office of Education
Samsonville is a hamlet in the southwestern corner of the town of Olive in Ulster County, New York. Bordered to the north by Mombaccus Mountain and Ashokan High Point, it is within the Catskill Park on the southeastern slopes of the high Catskills.
Early History[edit]
Native American hunters made use of a natural rock shelter beneath a cliff in the area now called Samsonville as early as 2000 BC and possibly as late as AD 1600. Excavations at the site yielded stone blades, potsherds, arrowheads and spear points.[2] The area that includes Samsonville was, in the early 19th century, known as "Subeatty Land" or the "Subeatty Mountain Allotment," part of the Marbletown Patent granted to three trustees by Queen Anne of England in 1703 through her agent, Edward Hyde, aka Viscount Cornbury or 3rd Earl of Clarendon. [3]
Samsonville grew up around a tannery established by Stoddard Hammond and the Palen family of tanners in 1831 below a falls on Mettacahonts Creek.[4] Olive town historian Vera Van Steenburgh Sickler wrote: "In 1831, Palen and Hammond built a large tannery in (Palentown) Samsonville. In 1850, after passing through other hands, the tannery became the property of Pratt and Samson" [5] The anonymous author of a 1964 note on Samsonville history in the Kingston Daily Freeman wrote that the tannery had been built in 1831 but gave the names of the original owners as "Hammond and Edson" (Stoddard Hammond was a major tannery owner elsewhere in New York and in Pennsylvania).[6] In 1848, the tannery was sold to Zadock Pratt, with Henry Samson as operating partner. The area around the tannery had been known as "Palentown" but acquired the name of Samsonville, leaving Palentown as the name of the adjacent area of Rochester, Ulster County, New York.[7]
Henry A. Samson[edit]
Henry Almanzo Samson, for whom the hamlet was named, was born April 4, 1818 in Woodstock, Connecticut, where he learned the tanning trade. In 1853, having established himself as a wealthy local businessman, he was named a Lieutenant Colonel in the 20th Regiment, New York State Militia and the following year was commissioned Brigadier General, 8th Brigade. In 1853, Zadock Pratt gifted his share of the Samsonville tannery to his son George Watson Pratt. Samson became the sole owner in 1856 and also had an interest in four other tanneries. In 1857, he built a grand Italianate villa at 32 West Chestnut Street in Rondout, New York. General Samson performed his Civil War service in New York state, but raised local troops for the Union: "Employees of the big tannery at Samsonville responded well to the patriotic activities of its owner, General Samson of Rondout. 43 of these sturdy men from the back country enlisted in the old 20th and 27 more entered the 120th the following summer."[8] In addition to his tannery interests, Samson was a member of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Rondout and the First National Bank of Kingston, one of the original trustees of the Rondout Savings Bank, a founding officer of the Rondout and Oswego Rail Road Company and president of the Washington Ice Company. He died on February 9, 1869 and is interred in Montrepose Cemetery in Rondout, now a district of Kingston.[9]
The name of Samson Mountain, which stands above the upper reaches of Rondout Creek, commemorates Samson the tanner. The peak now known as Ashokan High Point, which looms over Samsonville, was also called Samson by older residents, and is so named on a 1942 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark at the summit.[10] "Little Ashokan" (also known as "Round Mountain"[11] or "Ashokan Cobble"[12]), a lesser summit below High Point, was known locally as "Samson's Nose."
"The Most Important Town in the Entire Catskill Mountains"[edit]
Historian Harry Albert Haring wrote that, in its heyday, "Samsonville was the most important town in the entire Catskill Mountains, - its population was the largest, its payroll the greatest."[13] The Civil War created a high demand for the hemlock-tanned sole leather that was the Samsonville tannery's main product. After the war, demand declined, as did the supply of hemlock bark. As bark cutters wiped out the local hemlocks, all the Catskill tanneries eventually closed. Historian David Stradling wrote: “In many locations...when the tanneries closed, the settlements around them closed too. Samsonville, the site of General Henry A. Samson’s large tannery, was once an important town. In 1854, the Samson Tannery employed seventy men, processing a remarkable 31,000 hides a year. By 1930, Haring declared Samsonville nearly a ghost town; it had never found a replacement of the jobs lost when the tannery closed.” [14]
In 1871, an Ulster County directory noted that Samsonville "contains a church, a hotel, three stores, a grist mill, a saw mill, a tannery and about 100 inhabitants."[15] At that time, tanning was still being done in Samsonville by William V.N. Boice & Sons.[16] In 1873, however, the tannery burned down (not for the first time) and was not rebuilt.[17] In 1880, historian Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester still identified Samsonville as a "thickly-settled neighborhood" but added: "Since the abandonment of the tannery business the importance of the place has declined." Not all was gone: "There are two stores, one by Pratt Shurter and one by Peter Barringer, – Mr. Shurter is also postmaster, – a grist mill, owned by Anthony Shurter. There is also a saw-mill at this place, and a blacksmith."[18]
The Shurter Mills[edit]
The first known resident of Samsonville is 1812 War veteran John "Captain Jack" Shurter, who served as one of the original Town Officers when Olive was founded in 1823 and as Justice of the Peace. The mills he and his descendants operated for six generations at the top of the Samsonville Falls on Mettacahonts ("Markham") Creek preceded Samson's tanning business and long survived it. The Shurter grist mill ground local buckwheat, wheat and corn, as well as clover for animal feed, until a flood knocked it off its foundation in 1928. That mill ("where the grain is ground, with a rumbling sound, that feeds all Samsonville") was celebrated in "The Tall Pine Tree" ("The Samsonville Song") collected in the 1950s from local residents Celia Krom Kelder and Mary Avery.[19]
The Shurters also operated saw mills that produced excelsior and, later, headings (barrel tops) and shingles, and that side of the business continued after the loss of the grist mill, with a gasoline-powered engine supplementing the sometimes unreliable water power. A turbine installed between the mills provided electric power to Samsonville well before it was available in other remote Catskills communities.[20]
Post-Tannery Years[edit]
After the tannery era, bluestone quarrying, timber harvesting and shaving hoops from saplings ("hoop poles") to bind the barrels that held Rosendale cement, as well as growing oats and hay, provided employment and income for a reduced population.[21] In 1895, a Rand McNally Atlas gave Samsonville's population as 111.[22] 1940 census records counted 115 persons in Samsonville.[23] In recent decades, urban emigrants and second-home owners have added to the population, though many members of old local families - Barringer, Boice, Quick, Shurter, Van Kleeck, Krom, Haver, Davis, Beesmer, Palen, Roosa and Kelder - are still living in Samsonville or the surrounding area.
The tannery, mills, stores, hotel and schoolhouse that once stood in Samsonville are gone, as is Abey Kelder's saloon, celebrated in the local folk song "Kintey Coy at Samsonville"[24] The post office, opened in 1849 with Henry Samson as the first postmaster, closed in 1965, when there were only 50 postal patrons left in the town.[25] A handful of older buildings remain, most notably the Samsonville United Methodist Church, built in 1873.[26] In that same year, the Reformed Church of Samsonville, founded in 1851, was taken down and relocated to nearby Krumville.[27] Tetta's Market, a gas station, convenience store, pizzeria and former tire store operated since 1952 by four generations of an Italian-American family, is the hamlet's major commercial business.[28]
Public school students in Samsonville are in the Onteora Central School District and attend Bennett Elementary, Onteora Middle and Onteora High School in the Olive hamlet of Boiceville.
Since 1954, Samsonville has had its own volunteer fire company, Olive Fire Department Company No. 4.[29]
References[edit]
^ ab"Samsonville, New York". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
^ Vera Van Steenburgh Sickler, History of the Town of Olive, 1823-1973 (New York:privately published), p. 5. Sickler, The Town of Olive Through the Years: Part 1, (Kingston, NY: privately published), p. 5.
^The Mettacahonts is a tributary of Rochester Creek, which in turn flows into Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. The Munsee name was Magtigkenigkonk, which older locals rendered as Mattekhonk, Matticum, Markham or Markin's Creek or Kill. "Robert S. Grumet, Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History Reflected In Modern-Day Place Names, New York State Museum, 2016, p. 19"(PDF)."1974 interview with Mrs. Esther Kelsey, née Shurter, by historian Bob Steuding"."Camp Shady Rest postcard". For profiles of some of the prominent members of the Palen family of tanners, see: "Frank W. Norcross, A History of the New York Swamp, New York:The Chiswick Press, 1901, pp. 133, 152-4"(PDF).
^Vera Van Steenburgh Sicker, History of the Town of Olive, 1823-1973 (New York: private published), p. 12.,
^"Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Tanning in the Catskills". January 20, 2016.
^"Will Plank, Banners and Bugles: A Record of Ulster County, New York and the Mid-Hudson Region in the Civil War, Madison, WI:Centenniel Press, 1972, p. 116".
^"Gen Henry Almanzo Samson (1818-1869) - Find A..."www.findagrave.com."Chestnut Street Historic District"."History of the Ulster & Delaware".Bowen, Daniel (1893). "Samuel Penniman memoir in "Family of Griffith Bowen...""."George Watson Pratt bio in Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, New York, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880, footnote, p. 156-157".Rondout, New York Freeman, Vol. 6, no. 294, 1864, available via fultonhistory.com
^"Ashokan High Point Hike and Map with picture of benchmark"."USGS 1942 West Shokan topo map".
^"Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, NY, Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1880., p. 301".
^"Caltopo map of Ashokan High Point".
^Haring, Harry Albert (1931). Harry Albert Haring, "Our Catskill Mountains", New York:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931, p. 93. ISBN .
^"David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, Seattle:University of Washington Press, p. 35".. An article in the September 25, 1964 Kingston Daily Freeman maintained that "The Samson tannery during the seasonal period employed from 50 to 150 hands and included teamsters and numerous teams of horses and oxen.""Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Hamilton Child, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Ulster County, N.Y. for 1871-2, Syracuse:Hamilton Child, 1871, p.10".
^"Alphonso T. Clearwater, The History of Ulster County, New York, Vol. 2, Kingston: W.J. Van Deusen, 1907, p. 555-6". Lemuel Boice was another pioneer tanner in the Catskills. The Olive hamlet of Boiceville was named for him. His descendants carried on tanning, lumber, bluestone, milling and other businesses in the area.
^"Alphonso T. Clearwater (ed.), The History of Ulster County, NY, vol. 1 Kingston, NY:W.J. Van Deusen, 1907, p. 328". Henry Samson's half-brother Samuel Penniman referred to a fire of 1868 as being the second time the tannery burned "Daniel Bowen, Family of Griffith Bowen..., Jacksonville, FL: Da Costa Printing Co., 1893,p. 259". A reporter in 1964 wrote that Pratt Shurter told him in 1930 that the tannery had burned down in 1864 or 1865, and again in 1873."Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, New York…, Philadelphia:Everts & Peck, 1880, p. 298".
^Cazden, Haufrecht and Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany: SUNY Press, 1982, p. 637.
^"Town of Olive » Historical Quilt".""Town of Olive 175th Anniversary Celebration," Kingston Daily Freeman, Sunday March 28,1999"., "Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF)."1974 interview with Mrs. Esther Kelsey, née Shurter, by historian Bob Steuding"."Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, NY, Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1880., p. 297".
^"Introduction," Cazden, Haufrecht, Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany:SUNY Press, 1982. "Hudson Valley Guidebook on bluestone quarries".
^The lyrics, without melody, were collected from Jerry Van Kleeck and published in Cazden, Haufrecht and Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany: SUNY Press, 1982, p. 595.
^"NY Postal History..., p. 347"(PDF).Christina Barringer's grocery store operated as a rural station for some time thereafter. Kingston Daily Freeman, February 22, 1965, p. 8.When ZIP Codes were issued in 1963, Samsonville was assigned 12476 but the hamlet is now included in the Olivebridge ZIP Code, 12461 - the JIMAPCO map of Ulster County, 8th Edition, 1991 still displayed the old Samsonville ZIP.
^"Olivebridge and Samsonville UMC".
^"Sylvester,History of Ulster County, New York, Philadelphia:Everts & Peck, 1880, p. 300".,"Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Tetta's Market".
^"History of Olive Fire Department".
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Notable people[edit]
Larry Shurter (1917-2005), midget car and NASCAR race driver, track director of Onteora Speedway in Olivebridge. "Historic Racing".
Edwin Dubois Shurter (1863-1946), Professor of Public Speaking in The University of Texas from 1899 to 1923, organizer of The University Interscholastic League "UIL newsletter"(PDF).
Sufjan Stevens, singer and songwriter
Vernon Chatman, television producer, writer, voice actor, comedian and musician
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KINGSTON, N.Y. >> Cheryl Bowers has been chosen to be the next president and chief executive officer of Rondout Savings Bank, the bank announced Thursday.
Bowers, currently the bank’s chief operating officer, will succeed James Davenport when he retires as president and CEO at the end of the year.
Davenport has led the Kingston-based bank for 11 years. Bowers will be the 14th president of the 150-year-old institution and the first woman to hold the job.
Bowers joined Rondout Savings in 2001 and has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial sector, the bank said in a press release announcing her promotion.
“Cheryl’s proven devotion to the communities we serve and the bank’s continued success has resulted in her appointment to this important position,” Rondout Savings Board of Trustees Chairman Frank G. Ostrander III said in a prepared statement. “Her mindfulness and strategic leadership have earned her the highest respect from the Board of Trustees.”
Bowers, also in a prepared statement, said it is “an honor and a privilege to accept the position” of bank president and CEO.
She said Rondout Savings “has a long history of giving back to the communities it serves, a value I will continue to embrace.”
Bowers is a past chairwoman of the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce board and currently serves on the boards of the SUNY Ulster Foundation, the Kingston Boys & Girls Club, the Kingston Lions Club and Vassar Brothers Medical Center.
Bowers is a lifelong Kingston resident. She and her husband have two children.
Samsonville is a hamlet in the southwestern corner of the town of Olive in Ulster County, New York. Bordered to the north by Mombaccus Mountain and Ashokan High Point, it is within the Catskill Park on the southeastern slopes of the high Catskills.
Early History[edit]
Native American hunters made use of a natural rock shelter beneath a cliff in the area now called Samsonville as early as 2000 BC and possibly as late as AD 1600. Excavations at the site yielded stone blades, potsherds, arrowheads and spear points.[2] The area that includes Samsonville was, in the early 19th century, known as "Subeatty Land" or the "Subeatty Mountain Allotment," part of the Marbletown Patent granted to three trustees by Queen Anne of England in 1703 through her agent, Edward Hyde, aka Viscount Cornbury or 3rd Earl of Clarendon. [3]
Samsonville grew up around a tannery established by Stoddard Hammond and the Palen family of tanners in 1831 below a falls on Mettacahonts Creek.[4] Olive town historian Vera Van Steenburgh Sickler wrote: "In 1831, Palen and Hammond built a large tannery in (Palentown) Samsonville. In 1850, after passing through other hands, the tannery became the property of Pratt and Samson" [5] The anonymous author of a 1964 note on Samsonville history in the Kingston Daily Freeman wrote that the seacoast national bank in stuart florida had been built in 1831 but gave the names of the original owners as "Hammond and Edson" (Stoddard Hammond was a major tannery owner elsewhere in New York and in Pennsylvania).[6] In 1848, the tannery was sold to Zadock Pratt, with Henry Samson as operating partner. The area around the tannery had been known as "Palentown" but acquired the name of Samsonville, leaving Palentown as the name of the adjacent area of Rochester, Ulster County, New York.[7]
Henry A. Samson[edit]
Henry Almanzo Samson, for whom the hamlet was named, was born April 4, 1818 in Woodstock, Connecticut, where he learned the tanning trade. In 1853, having established himself as a wealthy local businessman, he was named a Lieutenant Colonel in the 20th Regiment, New York State Militia and the following year was commissioned Brigadier General, 8th Brigade. In 1853, Zadock Pratt gifted his share of the Samsonville tannery to his son George Watson Pratt. Samson became the sole owner in 1856 and also had an interest in four other tanneries. In 1857, he built a grand Italianate villa at 32 West Chestnut Street in Rondout, New York. General Samson performed his Civil War service in New York state, but raised local troops for the Union: "Employees of the big tannery at Samsonville responded well to the patriotic activities of its owner, General Samson of Rondout. 43 of these sturdy men from the back country enlisted in the old 20th and 27 more entered the 120th the following summer."[8] In addition to his tannery interests, Samson was a member of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Rondout and the First National Bank of Kingston, one of the original trustees of the Rondout Savings Bank, a founding officer of the Rondout and Oswego Rail Road Company and president of the Washington Ice Company. He died on February 9, 1869 and is interred in Montrepose Cemetery in Rondout, now a district of Kingston.[9]
The name of Samson Mountain, which stands above the upper reaches of Rondout Creek, commemorates Samson the tanner. The peak now known as Ashokan High Point, which looms over Samsonville, was also called Samson by older residents, and is so named on a 1942 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark at the summit.[10] "Little Ashokan" (also known as "Round Mountain"[11] or "Ashokan Cobble"[12]), a lesser summit below High Point, was known locally as "Samson's Nose."
"The Most Important Town in the Entire Catskill Mountains"[edit]
Historian Harry Albert Haring wrote that, in its heyday, "Samsonville was the most important town in the entire Catskill Mountains, - its population was the largest, its payroll the greatest."[13] The Civil War created a high demand for the hemlock-tanned sole leather that was the Samsonville tannery's main product. After the war, demand declined, as did the supply of hemlock bark. As bark cutters wiped out the local hemlocks, all the Catskill tanneries eventually closed. Historian David Stradling wrote: “In many locations.when the tanneries closed, the settlements around them closed too. Samsonville, the site of General Henry A. Samson’s large tannery, was once an important town. In 1854, the Samson Tannery employed seventy men, processing a remarkable 31,000 hides a year. By 1930, Haring declared Samsonville nearly a ghost town; it had never found a replacement of the jobs lost when the tannery closed.” [14]
In 1871, an Ulster County directory noted that Samsonville "contains a church, a hotel, three stores, a grist mill, a saw mill, a tannery and about 100 inhabitants."[15] At that time, tanning was still being done in Samsonville by William V.N. Boice & Sons.[16] In 1873, however, the tannery burned down (not for the first time) and was not rebuilt.[17] In 1880, historian Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester still identified Samsonville as a "thickly-settled neighborhood" but added: "Since the abandonment of the tannery business the importance of the place has declined." Not all was gone: "There are two stores, one by Pratt Shurter and one by Peter Barringer, – Mr. Shurter is also postmaster, – a grist mill, owned by Anthony Shurter. There is also a saw-mill at this place, and a blacksmith."[18]
The Shurter Mills[edit]
The first known resident of Samsonville is 1812 War veteran John "Captain Jack" Shurter, who served as one of the original Town Officers when Olive was founded in 1823 and as Justice of the Peace. The mills he and his descendants operated for six generations at the top of the Samsonville Falls on Mettacahonts ("Markham") Creek preceded Samson's tanning business and long survived it. The Shurter grist mill ground local buckwheat, wheat and corn, as well as clover for animal feed, until a flood knocked it off its foundation in 1928. That mill ("where the grain is ground, with a rumbling sound, that feeds all Samsonville") was celebrated in "The Tall Pine Tree" ("The Samsonville Song") collected in the 1950s from local residents Celia Krom Kelder and Mary Avery.[19]
The Shurters also operated saw mills that produced excelsior and, later, headings (barrel tops) and shingles, and that side of the business continued after the loss of the grist mill, with a gasoline-powered engine supplementing the sometimes unreliable water power. A turbine installed between the mills provided electric power to Samsonville well before it was available in other remote Catskills communities.[20]
Post-Tannery Years[edit]
After the tannery era, bluestone quarrying, timber harvesting and shaving hoops from saplings ("hoop poles") to bind the barrels that held Rosendale cement, as well as growing oats and hay, provided employment and income for a reduced population.[21] In 1895, a Rand McNally Atlas gave Samsonville's population as 111.[22] 1940 census records counted 115 persons in Samsonville.[23] In recent decades, urban emigrants and second-home owners have added to the population, though many members of old local families - Barringer, Boice, Quick, Shurter, Van Kleeck, Krom, Haver, Davis, Beesmer, Palen, Roosa and Kelder - are still living in Samsonville or the surrounding area.
The tannery, mills, stores, hotel and schoolhouse that once stood in Samsonville are gone, as is Abey Kelder's saloon, celebrated in the local folk song "Kintey Coy at Samsonville"[24] The post office, opened in 1849 with Henry Samson as the first postmaster, closed in 1965, when there were only 50 postal patrons left in the town.[25] A handful of older buildings remain, most notably the Samsonville United Methodist Church, built in 1873.[26] In that same year, the Reformed Church of Samsonville, founded in 1851, was taken down and relocated to nearby Krumville.[27] Tetta's Market, a gas station, convenience store, pizzeria and former tire store operated since 1952 by four generations of an Italian-American family, is the hamlet's major commercial business.[28]
Public school students in Samsonville are in the Onteora Central School District and attend Bennett Elementary, Onteora Middle and Onteora High School in the Olive hamlet of Boiceville.
Since 1954, Samsonville has had its own volunteer fire company, Olive Fire Department Company No. 4.[29]
References[edit]
^ ab"Samsonville, New York". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
^ Vera Van Steenburgh Sickler, History of the Town of Olive, 1823-1973 (New York:privately published), p. 5. Sickler, The Town of Olive Through the Years: Part 1, (Kingston, NY: privately published), p. 5.
^The Mettacahonts is a tributary of Rochester Creek, which in turn flows into Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. The Munsee name was Magtigkenigkonk, which older locals rendered as Mattekhonk, Matticum, Markham or Markin's Creek or Kill. "Robert S. Grumet, Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History Reflected In Modern-Day Place Names, New York State Museum, 2016, p. 19"(PDF)."1974 interview with Mrs. Esther Kelsey, née Shurter, by historian Bob Steuding"."Camp Www walmart money card customer service Rest postcard". For profiles of some of the prominent members of the Palen family of tanners, see: "Frank W. Norcross, A History natures metropolis chicago and the great west the New York Swamp, New York:The Chiswick Press, 1901, pp. 133, 152-4"(PDF).
^Vera Van Steenburgh Sicker, History of the Town of Olive, 1823-1973 (New York: private published), p. 12.,
^"Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Tanning in the Catskills". January 20, 2016.
^"Will Plank, Banners and Bugles: A Record of Ulster County, New York and the Mid-Hudson Region in the Civil War, Madison, WI:Centenniel Press, 1972, p. 116".
^"Gen Henry Almanzo Samson (1818-1869) - Find A."www.findagrave.com."Chestnut Street Historic District"."History of the Ulster & Delaware".Bowen, Daniel (1893). "Samuel Penniman memoir in "Family of Griffith Bowen.""."George Watson Pratt bio in Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, New York, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880, footnote, p. 156-157".Rondout, New York Freeman, Vol. 6, no. 294, 1864, available via fultonhistory.com
^"Ashokan High Point Hike and Map with picture of benchmark"."USGS rondout savings bank West Shokan topo map".
^"Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, NY, Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1880., p. 301".
^"Caltopo map of Ashokan High Point".
^Haring, Harry Albert (1931). Harry Albert Haring, "Our Catskill Mountains", New York:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931, p. 93. ISBN .
^"David Stradling, Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills, Seattle:University of Washington Press, p. 35".. An article in the September 25, 1964 Kingston Daily Freeman maintained that "The Samson tannery during the seasonal period employed from 50 to 150 hands and included teamsters and numerous teams of horses and oxen.""Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Hamilton Child, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Ulster County, N.Y. for 1871-2, Syracuse:Hamilton Child, 1871, p.10".
^"Alphonso T. Clearwater, The History of Ulster County, New York, Vol. 2, Kingston: W.J. Van Deusen, 1907, p. 555-6". Lemuel Boice was another pioneer tanner in the Catskills. The Olive hamlet of Boiceville was named for him. His descendants carried on tanning, lumber, bluestone, milling and other businesses in the area.
^"Alphonso T. Clearwater (ed.), The History of Ulster County, NY, vol. 1 Kingston, NY:W.J. Van Deusen, 1907, p. 328". Henry Samson's half-brother Samuel Penniman referred to a fire of 1868 as being the second time the tannery burned "Daniel Bowen, Family of Griffith Bowen., Jacksonville, FL: Da Costa Printing Co., 1893,p. 259". A reporter in 1964 wrote that Pratt Shurter told him in 1930 that the tannery had burned down in 1864 or 1865, and again in 1873."Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, New York…, Philadelphia:Everts & Peck, 1880, p. 298".
^Cazden, Haufrecht and Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany: SUNY Press, 1982, p. 637.
^"Town of Olive » Historical Quilt".""Town of Olive 175th Anniversary Celebration," Kingston Daily Freeman, Sunday March 28,1999"., "Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF)."1974 interview with Mrs. Esther Kelsey, née Shurter, by historian Bob Steuding"."Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Ulster County, NY, Philadelphia: Everts and Peck, 1880., p. 297".
^"Introduction," Cazden, Haufrecht, Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany:SUNY Press, 1982. "Hudson Valley Guidebook on bluestone quarries".
^The lyrics, without melody, were collected from Jerry Van Kleeck and published in Cazden, Haufrecht and Studer, Folk Songs of the Catskills, Albany: SUNY Press, 1982, p. 595.
^"NY Postal History., p. 347"(PDF).Christina Barringer's grocery store operated as a rural station for some time thereafter. Kingston Daily Freeman, February 22, 1965, p. 8.When ZIP Codes were issued in 1963, Samsonville was assigned 12476 but the hamlet is now included in the Olivebridge ZIP Code, 12461 - the JIMAPCO map of Ulster County, 8th Edition, 1991 still displayed the old Samsonville ZIP.
^"Olivebridge and Samsonville UMC".
^"Sylvester,History of Ulster County, New York, Philadelphia:Everts & Peck, 1880, p. 300".,"Kingston Daily Freeman, 9-25-64"(PDF).
^"Tetta's Market".
^"History of Olive Fire Department".
External links[edit]
Notable people[edit]
Larry Shurter (1917-2005), midget car and NASCAR race driver, track director of Onteora Speedway in Olivebridge. "Historic Racing".
Edwin Dubois Shurter (1863-1946), Professor of Public Speaking in The University of Texas from 1899 to 1923, organizer of The University Interscholastic League "UIL newsletter"(PDF).
Sufjan Stevens, singer and songwriter
Vernon Chatman, television producer, writer, voice actor, comedian and musician
Heather Hitchens, president and CEO, American Theatre Wing
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