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The Plattekill Stream Known to Many Today ar the West Saugeftief Stream The Plattekill, which pours down through the clove above West Saugerties, is one of the most precipitous streams in this area. Plattekill Clove itself is a wild and little traveled ravine. It was not until 1905 that a road was constructed there. Today, as this is written, the road up the Plattekill cannot be be traveled by any vehicle. Erosion and rainwater lzave worn parts of it away. In the summertime, however, many tourists travel it-or try to, many a vehicle having come to grief on its precipitous slopes. The stream, and the road, make an ascent of 1400 feet in a distance of one and one-half miles. Only a few, chiefly fishermen, have followed the banks of the stream from the foot of the clove to the top. The Plattekill is the most rugged clove of the more pronounced clefts in the east wall of the Cats- kills available for travel. Halfway up the clove the traveler reache.s the Devil's Kitchen, called by Haring fwho wrote Our Catskill Mountainsnj a jumbled mass of shattered rock. Here amidst the boulders a stream gushes forth to trickle down the northern slope of the clove to add its sparkling spring water to the never-failing flow of the Kaaterskill. At the foot of the mountain, the village of Saugerties catches a part of the Kaaterskill water in its reservoir and diverts it for use for drinking purposes. The name, Plattekill, has an Indian origin mean- ing the stream of the place. Perhaps the place had some unusual significance to the Indians. It may be they regarded it as one of the retreats of Manitou. Or perhaps some unusual accident or conflict oc- curred here. We do know that the Indians respected 161 the Catskills and we suspect their experiences in attempting to travel the Kaaterskill Clove may have added to this reverence. Early white settlers tell of the veneration, fear, and awe in which some Indians held the Catskills. Modern man, for all his troubles, can thank God his mind need harbor no such unfounded fears as the Indians seem to have entertained. Not all Indians, probably, held these fears, for many of them traveled the Catskills extensively and camped there for long periods hunting, fishing, and even planting and harvesting crops there. Both buried and accident- ly lost and discarded artifacts are there in the soil to prove it. After the Kaaterskill reaches the lower lands below the clove, it flows in a southerly direction, being one of the only two streams in this area to do so-the other being the little Sawyer, the Sawkill. I N .. ,il ' ' f 3257 'fl s fi f 1 ' if - 4 af x-Ja I A 4444: l 'Y 6, fly!! H ,mf J N ffl, 'III' I ly V. W la fl - -r1'+.v:-M 2172 'Nl ff' Q -,ff - .ff fm , .- X1 it , a Q .--J' ' f gffk Ai ,V 'i ' I -- b:. , JW-7 S41 . 5531' -:ik ,.... ' 3 'C is 4 - 'Z 3.-ff f ' -
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Page 19 text:
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5 ... ,U. The Majestic Many travelers do not realize that Saugerties lies so tlose to the west bank of the Hudson. Streams play. and have always played, a large part in the lives ot' lotal residents both Indian and white men: the union locally of the Hudson and the Esopus brought the Indians luere tor travel, commerce, and tioodg they brought the white man here for water power and tommerce. The history of the Hudson always relates its distovery by Henry Hudson in 1609. He sailed into it on the Halt' Moon, a comparatively tiny ship manned by eighteen sailors, Wfe like to emphasize its discovery, rather, by those who lived before, and who have lived since his time. They know it to be about 500 miles longg it rises in the Adirondacks, l Hudson River one thief sourte being lake Tear ot' the C Iouds, I, S if feet above the sea. Saugerties is almost exattly ltttl miles north of its mouth. Sea going vessels tollou the Hudson another titty miles north ol' here. Yet the Hudson is not very wide at this place. It appears to us to be a gentle tlowing stream rather than .1 navigable river, Although the Hudson tan kitk up quite disturbing white Caps in a breeze. it is rather placidg it never overflows its banks hereabouts to any great degree. lts placidity can be judged by the fact that three weeks are required for a single drop of water to make the trip from Albany to New York. a distance ot' about 140 miles. Two ebb tides every 2-i hours contribute to this tardiness ol' arrival at the sea. The fall from Albany to New York is only about tive feet. lil
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