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    1. Delaware County across the river
    2. I cam across this site, and as many of our relatives came or went to Deleware County, NY I thought that I would pass this on. The link at the bottom is to the site. Delaware County, NY Genealogy and History Site Here's a cute little article I found in the paper. Can't remember which newspaper I got this from, but thought it was kind of neat. Might be of interest to someone looking for "old" names in Delaware County. - Linda Ogborn, September 6, 1998 "In them days whenever I wanted to go to Albany, I'd leave my home on The Cat Ladder (now Cross mountain). I'd go through the village of Lumberville, (now Arena) and take the train at Arkville (Now Dean's Corners). We'd ride through Beaver Dam (now Roxbury) and go through Moresville (now Grand Gorge). Then we'd continue on to Devil's Halfacre (now Stamford). We rode down the West Branch to Tinkertown (now Hobart) and then to "The Bunghole" (now Bloomville). From here we went over the mountain to Klipnockie (Oneonta) where we caught the Albany. They might have added that when he got to Alameda the name was changed to South Kortright and the Middletown sign on the post office had been changed to Margaretville." http://www.dcnyhistory.org/index.html

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