Saugerties (village), New York

Saugerties (/ˈsɔːɡərtiːz/) is a village in Ulster County, New York, United States.

The Village of Saugerties is located on the west bank of the Hudson River, at the mouth of the Esopus Creek.

These routes parallel the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), which passes through the town a mile west of the village.

In the 1650s, Barent Cornelis Volge operated a sawmill on the Sawyer's Kill, supplying lumber for the manor of Rensselaerswick.

[2] Circa 1685, George Meals and Richard Hayes purchased land on both sides of the Esopus Creek where it enters the Hudson River.

Within two years, they sold the riverfront land to Barent Burhans, a miller whose granddaughter's husband, John Brink Jr., established a ferry across the river to Clermont, the seat of the Lower Livingston Manor.

He had both a sawmill and a gristmill; he also operated a ferry crossing the river to the east shore.

[3] During the American Revolution, a British naval squadron lay at anchor at Saugerties from October 18–22, 1777, while raiding parties burned the Livingston estates of Clermont and Belvedere, across the Hudson River.

[9] Father Chris Berean stated that he had been able to convince 14 families to send their children to St. Mary of the Snow in 2013.

View of village and church steeple seen through the trees during autumn, the leaves have changed to fall colors
Jasper Francis Cropsey , Back of the Village, Saugerties, New York, 1886