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                        "*": "==Location==\nReidsville is a hamlet in the southeast part of the town bordering Westerlo. \n==History==\n[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]]  Oct 19 1934<br>\n\n\n1933 History of Reidsville<br>\n\nREIDSVILLE GREW FROM HAMLET TO A\nTHRIVING CENTER OF MOUNTAIN INDUSTRY,\nTHEN SLID BACK TO HUMBLE BEGINNINGS\n\nLittle Village in Helderberg Hills Once Boasted Two Churches,\nTwo Hotels, Several Stores; Abandoned Church Now\nMonument to Town That Slipped Away\n\nEditor's Note \u2014 The following article, written by Inez Shook, appeared in\nthe Sunday Knickerbocker Press, Sept. 16, 1934.\n\nDust lies like a grey shroud over the interior of a little old\nchurch high in the Helderberg hills. It spreads over the\nhuge Bible open on the rough, low pulpit; over the organ\nwith its muted echoes of music that once swelled an accompaniment\nto the chorus of young voices from choir seats on\neach side the raised platform; over the twin stoves at the\nrear of the room, and the sedate rows of square, low-backed\npews.\n\nThis abandoned church is a monument\nto a town that died. A town\nthat grew from hamlet to a thriving\ncenter of mountain industry, then\nslipped back to its humble beginnings\nas time and progress stole its reason\nfor existence. Now, only this crumbling\nbuilding and vine-tangled quarries\nin the hills outside remain as testimony\nto the days when Reidsville\nwas a thriving community of several\nhundred souls, and could boast two\nchurches, two hotels and several\nstores.\n\nAugustus H. Salisbury knows the\nstory of Reidsville. Mr. Salisbury\nlives in a neat grey house on the narrow\nunpaved road that runs through\nReidsville, and can look out his windows\nat the vacant lots where business\nplaces once nourished. He knew\nas familiar sounds the voices of men\nmaking merry in the hotel across the\nway after a day of toil or during the\nlong winter lay-off. Many times he\nhas watched, the four-horse stage\nfrom Albany swing to a whip-cracking\nhalt before William Stoneburner's Inn.\n\nAugustus Salisbury, too, is the man\nwho can tell you about the blue stone\nQuarries that once kept Reidsville \"on\nthe map\". He went to work there as\na youth of 20, and has watched the in\ndustry dwindle, from its onetime high\npeak. And it was he who made the\nlast stand with the quarry industry,\nto which he was forced to hang up\nthe \"out of business\" sign a year ago.\n\"Cement did it,\" Mr, Salisbury observed.\nReidsville had the finest blue\nstone quarries in this section of the\nHelderbergs, and was the center of\nthe business for over 50 years.\n\n\"The men who worked in the quarries\naround town and in the old Grippie\nquarry near South Berne all used\nto live in Reidsville. We had two\nchurches, the Methodist and the\nChristian - full every Sunday, too - \ntwo hotels, several stores and a street\nlined with houses.\n\"We shipped blue stone from Voorheesville\nas far away as Philadelphia.\nAlbany, however, was our best market.\nWe also shipped some stone for\nuse as rough boxes.\n\n\"But all that ended about 15 years\nago. The quarries were kept open\nuntil June, 1933, but business was\ndead.\"\n\nA. H. Salisbury went to work in the\nReidsville quarries nearly 40 years\nago. He learned how to blast away\ntop rock, to find the natural seams of\nblue stone about 10 feet below. Then\ncame the \"driving up\" with wedges\nand rolling out of the slabs. \"Tracing\nup\" was next, when holes were bored\nat intervals and the stones cut into\nrequired sizes.\n\nThis was \"quarry cut\" stone. Sometimes\nthere would be an order for\nrock chiseled into smooth edges.\nHorses crept down over the steep,\nwinding roads into the valley below\nwith their wagon loads of cut stone.\nIt was a 12-hour haul to Albany, and\na teamster had many a spare moment\nfor philosophic musing on the\njourney.\n\nIn the early days, the cut rock was\nloaded into the waiting wagons by\nhand. Later, derricks were used.\nAaron Hotaling and William Brate\nwere the first operators of the 75-year\nold quarries, as Mr. Salisbury recalls.\nThey were followed by other holders,\nincluding John Flagler and the Albany\nCounty Blue Stone Company for which\nMr. Salisbury worked as a foreman\nfor 21 years. When this\ncompany gave up the quarries, Mr.\nSalisbury took them over.\nBy this time, however, blue stone\nwindow sills, curbing and sidewalks\nwere becoming outmoded. Cement\nand artificial stone usurped its place.\nFor a while, Mr. Salisbury sent\ntruckloads of stone to Saugerties for\nshipment to New York. He Also kept\nwheels running over the routes to\nBennington, Vt, and Massachusetts\ntowns. Then there was the coping\nfor the Schuyler Mansion and Fort\nCrailo which he supplied. Blue stone\nhas an antique appearance and is\npopular in the reconstruction of old\nstone buildings, he explained.\n\nAbout six years ago, the Lane Construction\nCompany resurfaced 10\nmiles of the Rensselaerville road and\n10 of the Thacher Park-New Salem\nhighway with rock from the Reidsville\nquarry. Last year, there was an\norder for blue stone as backing for\nthe new Trinity Methodist Church of\nAlbany. And from Stockbridge, Mass.,\ncame a few orders for blue stone to\nbe used in \"crazy walks.\"\n\nBut the groans of laboring derricks\ndied from the quarries, and loaded\ntrucks rumbled less and less on the\nroads to the valley cities. Quarries\nthat had run from April to November\nevery year closed in the middle of the\nsummer.\n\nIn June, 1933, the last wagon load\nof stone trundled out of the village.\nMr. Salisbury turned his eyes toward\nother fields of endeavor. Cement the\nmaterial that ruined Reidsville and\nhis own business furnished one job.\nHe constructed over 30 of the cooking\nfireplaces set up last summer in\nThacher Park. And he has found\nmany other places to use the skill\ndeveloped in the quarry town.\nBut rotting wagon tongues lie half\nburied in the stagnant pools that fill\nthe abandoned quarries. Reidsville,\nwhich offered '''[[Bio:Frederick W. Conger|Frederick W. Conger]]'''\nand William Brate as candidates for\nsheriff of Albany County, has shrunk\ninto a roadside hamlet once more.\nMany homes have burned or been\ntorn down to leave gaping vacancies\nalong the road. The hotels and other\nbusiness places have disappeared.\nStone cutters have died or moved\naway from the village they made. Besides\nAugust Salisbury, there are only\nAdam and Charles Otto to recall\nworking days in the quarries. Coat\nhooks in the entry of the Christian\nChurch erected in 1821 hang empty,\nand Wilkins and David Crawford,\nformer trustees, look wistfully upon\nits crumbling walls and sagging pews.\n\n'''Belongs to the Past'''\n\nServices are still conducted in the\nMethodist Church on the hill. There\nis a tiny schoolhouse, and there are\na few homes to send pupils there.\nBut these houses belong to a new\ntype of Resident: Newcomers who\nnever knew that thriving community\nwhich sent wagon-loads of stone down\nto valley railroads running to great\ncities of the East.\n\nReidsville belongs to the past. A\nsurely as the Reidsville Rural Cemetery on the hill sheltering 15 soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic and that young Clifton Flagler,\nnephew of A. H. Salisbury, who died\non World War battlefield in the 55th\nRegiment of the United States Marines. That cemetery across which\nNathaniel Newberry flung a jest that\nbrought a grim return.\n\nNewberry helped build the cemetery.\nWhen it was finished he shook\nwith deep laughter and cried:\"Bring\n'em on now. Your cemetery is\nready for business.\"\n\nIt was Nathaniel Newberry who\nrested in the first grave.\n\n==Churches==\n*[[Reidsville Christian Church]]\n*[[Reidsville Methodist Church]]\n==Schools==\n*[[Reidsville School]]\n==Businesses==\n*[[Reidsville Quarry]]\n===Hotels and Taverns===\n*[[Abbey Hotel]]\n*[[Kushuqua Hotel]]\n*[[Lawrence's Tavern]]\n\n===Mills===\n===Blacksmiths===\n\n==Cemeteries==\n*[[Reidsville Cemetery]]\n==Photo Gallery==\nThis section is for scenic photos and post cards of the hamlet. Photos of people and families should be posted on biography or family pages. \n<gallery>\nImage:Remedies.jpg|<center>Remedies and Recipes from Reidsville copied from a 1865 ledger</center>\nImage:Betsey Conger.jpg|<center>Original Walter Church Writ served by the Sheriff on Betsey Conger</center>\nImage:Nicholas Wideman.jpg|<center>Family in 1832, L-R Mrs. Wideman, Juliett, Nicholas, Elizabeth and Perrrin Wideman </center>\nImage:Francis Brate Place.jpg|<center>Francis Brate Place about 1916</center>\nImage:Conger Homestead.jpg|<center>[[Frederick Ward Conger]]1786-1873 ran a store from this location in Reidsville at some period during the 1800s. His grandson[[ Frederick Ward Conger 1st]] 1830-after 1880 helped run the store when he was a child and ran the store with his grandfather when he became an adult.Frederick Ward Conger purchased the property  about 1880. Frederick was also involved in the stone business and politics as well as local affairs. This location has served as the residence for members of the Conger family since 1880 or before.Submitted by[[ William Conger]] April 14, 2006</center>\nImage:R24.JPG|<center>Photo's courtesy of Mrs Helen Wideman</center>\nImage:R25.JPG|<center>Photo's courtesy of Mrs Helen Wideman</center>\nImage:R26.JPG|<center>Photo's courtesy of Mrs Helen Wideman</center>\nImage:R1.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R2.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R3.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R4.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R5.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R6.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R7.JPG|<center>Members of the Brate family, courtesy of Annie Brate</center>\nImage:R8.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford  family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R9.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford  family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R10.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R11.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R12.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R13.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R14.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R15.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R16.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R17.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R18.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R19.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R20.JPG|<center>Members of the Crawford family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R21.JPG|<center>Members of the MacMillen family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R22.JPG|<center>Members of the MacMillen family, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R23.JPG|<center>Members of the Way, Zorn and Tompson family's, courtesy of Lillian Crawford</center>\nImage:R27.jpg|<center>Post Card 1</center>\nImage:R27a.jpg|<center>Back of Post Card 1</center>\nImage:R28.jpg|<center>Post Card 2</center>\nImage:R28a.jpg|<center>Back of Post Card 2</center>\nImage:R29.jpg|<center>Post Card 3</center>\nImage:R29a.jpg|<center>Back of Post Card 3</center>\nImage:R30.jpg|<center>Post Card 4</center>\nImage:R30a.jpg|<center>Back of Post Card 4</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\nImage:{filename}|<center>{caption}</center>\n{...}\n \n</gallery>\n'''Sources'''\n<references />\n\n==External Links==\n\n[[Category:Hamlets]]"
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                        "*": "==Location==\nReidsville Cemetery is located on County Route 11 (Reidsville Rd) in [[Reidsville]].\n\n[[Category:Cemeteries]]"
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