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Haunted Catskills /

Title
Haunted Catskills / Lisa LaMonica.
Author
LaMonica, Lisa.
Publication
Charleston, SC : Haunted America, 2013.
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  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Description
110 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
"Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region," and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition. In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her child--a crime for which she was later cleared. The ghost of a young Native American girl haunts Claverack Creek, where she threw herself into the water when her father forbade her to be with the man she loved. In Greenport, Peter Hallenbeck was murdered by his nephews in his home, where his spirit still lingers. Discover these and other eerie tales of hauntings in the Catskill Mountains."--Publisher's description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Local history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110).
Contents
Theories -- The Register-Star Building -- The Hallenbeck House -- 608 Columbia Street and the Sanford Gifford House -- The Weintraub House -- Spook Rock Road -- Dragged to Death; Condemned to the Noose -- The Sutherland Burial Plot : The Vision in the Vault -- Historic Huguenot Street and New Paltz -- The Ghost of Delaware County and Other Tales -- The Van Schaack House and Kinderhook -- The Underground Railroad, Upstate New York and Ghost Stories -- Point Lookout, Windam Mountain -- Hank, the One-Armed Brakeman of Tannersville -- The Dietz House -- The Catskill Witch -- Harper -- The Vanderbilt.
ISBN
  • 9781626190115
  • 1626190119
LCCN
2013018288
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library