Claverack College

John Gabriel Gebhard, the pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack.

In 1890, student Stephen Crane, who later became a prominent author, published his first article in the February 1890 Claverack College Vidette.

It was about explorer Henry M. Stanley's quest in Africa to find the English missionary David Livingstone.

[1] In the 1870s students from Claverack and Hudson River Institute often made marriage matches with each other.

The George Felpel House, located on the western half of the property, was built using some of the stones saved from the school's structures.