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Coxsackie was settled around 1652 by the Dutch.
The Union Aqueduct Association was incorporated in 1804 by Dorrance Kirtland, John Bartlett, Philip Conine, junior, Peter C. Adams, Henry Johnson, Samuel Field, Archibald MiVickar, Daniel Farrey, George Wilson, Simeon Fitch, Isaac Miner, junior, Stephen Warren, and John Robbins "for supplying the said village in the said town with water by means of conduits or aqueducts." This company built a system using wooden logs, but they were never adequate.
The Village of Coxsackie built a gravity water system in 1894 using cast-iron pipes.
Water is provided by Village of Coxsackie Water Department.
References
1804 Journal
of the Assembly of the State of New York
Page 64: February 11, 1804. The petition of Dorrance, Kirtland and others,
inhabitants of the village of Coxsackie, praying that they and their
associates may be incorporated by the name of the union Aqueduct
Association for the purpose of supplying the said village with pure and
wholesome water, was read, and referred to a select committee, consisting
of Mr. S. Smith, Mr. Simmons, and Mr. Van Allen.
1804 An act for incorporating an Aqueduct Association in the Town of Coxsackie, in the County of Greene, April 9th, 1804.
1897 "Coxsackie" from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 4
1914 "Coxsackie" from Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York for the Year Ending December 31, 1913, Volume 34
1991 Under
Three Flags, by Raymond Beecher
Pages 95-101: The Utilities - Water, Telephone, and Electricity
1994 The
Greene County Catskills: a history, by Field Home
Pages 108-109: Catskill and Coxsackie initiated water systems very
early, in 1803 and 1804. Coxsackie's Union Aqueduct Association,
incorporated in 1804, placed log water pipes underground from a stream
near Climax; these 10" diameter pipes had a 2-1/2" bore but were never
adequate, and Coxsackie also drew from the Hudson and a town pump. (A dam
at Climax provided a modern system in 1899.)
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