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    Esopus (/ˌɛˈsoʊpəs/ eh-SOHP-əs) is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 9,548 at the 2020 census. The town was named after...
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  • Esopus may refer to: In New York Esopus, New York, a town in Ulster County Esopus (village), in the town of Esopus Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson...
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    Fort Amsterdam (1625, to develop into the town New Amsterdam, which is present-day New York City); and Esopus (1653, now Kingston). The success of the patroonship...
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    1653. The new settlement was called Esopus after the local Lenape people. In 1654, European settlers began buying more land from the Esopus Indians further...
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  • The Esopus Wars were two conflicts between the Esopus tribe of Lenape Natives (Delaware) and New Netherlander colonists during the latter half of the 17th...
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    and Sullivan counties, because of conflicts known as the Esopus Wars. As a result, the Esopus were willing to exchange the land for a hefty sum of goods...
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    Dutch settlers as the "Esopus Kill",: 56  takes its name from the Esopus tribe of the Lenape, who were living around the lower Esopus when the Dutch first...
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    interaction between colonists and the Esopus people was recorded in 1609. Historian Herbert C. Kraft believes some Esopus joined with some Wappinger people...
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  • John Roosevelt (politician) (category People from Esopus, New York)
    Roosevelt. Johannes Roosevelt was baptized on February 27, 1689, in Esopus, Province of New York (near Kingston) while his father Nicholas Roosevelt (1658–1742)...
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    number of Indian tribes served as mediators between the Esopus and the Dutch during the Esopus Wars, including not only nearby tribes such as the Mohicans...
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    side of the Hudson. "Esopus" meant "land of flowing water and high banks," or "small brook." There is also a town named Esopus located within Ulster...
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    Esopus Spitzenburg or Aesopus Spitzenburgh is a variety of apple. It was discovered early in the 18th century near Esopus, Hudson, New York and is reputed...
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    mortgages, the land was auctioned off in 1866 to Charles S. Brown of Esopus, New York. Believing the area to be useful for development, Brown subdivided...
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    This is a list of municipalities in New York other than towns, which includes all 531 villages and 62 cities of New York. Of the total 593 municipalities...
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    The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150...
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    John Burroughs (category People from Esopus, New York)
    Burroughs left Washington for New York. The next year he bought a 9-acre (3.6 ha) farm in West Park, NY (now part of the Town of Esopus) where he built his Riverby...
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    Iroquois population, possibly at Schenectady, Esopus, Quinnipiac, Communipaw, and elsewhere. In 1624, New Netherland became a province of the Dutch Republic...
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    place) in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 3,678 at the 2020 census. Port Ewen is in the Town of Esopus, south of Kingston, along...
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    highways in the U.S. state of New York. Signed state highways in New York, referred to as "touring routes" by the New York State Department of Transportation...
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    secured a title from the Esopus Sachem to this land sometime before 1663. Volge likely left the area at the outbreak of the first Esopus War in 1658. The "footpath...
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    Lakes Kill Stony Creek Esopus Creek Plattekill Creek (Esopus Creek tributary) Saw Kill (Esopus Creek tributary) Bush Kill (Esopus Creek tributary) Maltby...
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    incorporated into the New York State parks system. Esopus Island is featured prominently in the novel Piper Houdini: Nightmare on Esopus Island, in which Aleister...
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    Sojourner Truth (category People from Esopus, New York)
    (just north of present-day Rifton), in the town of Esopus, New York, 95 miles (153 km) north of New York City. Her first language was Dutch, and she continued...
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    Woodcrest Bruderhof and is located near the western town line of the Town of Esopus on Route 213. Rifton had its beginnings as a smattering of several hamlets...
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    settled briefly with other French Canadian refugees in Esopus, New York. When the new 5th New York Regiment was created under Colonel Lewis DuBois, Hamtramck...
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  • Academy in the Bronx and Marist Brothers Center, a retreat center in Esopus, New York. Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers — Missioners serving throughout the world...
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    population of 2,866.[better source needed] The name is believed to be from an Esopus phrase for "land of rapid waters." The town was first settled around the...
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    New York, United States. The population was 2,442 at the 2020 census. Saugerties South is a community south of the Village of Saugerties and Esopus Creek...
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  • Michael P. Hein (category People from Esopus, New York)
    Reservoir via a waste channel which feeds into Ulster County's Esopus Creek. The Esopus Creek became contaminated with turbid water causing major problems...
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    Alton B. Parker (category People from Esopus, New York)
    Judge, Parker and his wife sold their Kingston home and bought an estate in Esopus on the Hudson River, calling the house "Rosemount". They were the parents...
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