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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Bolton Landing (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Bolton Landing. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Bolton Landing ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Bolton Landing: Bolton Lndg. (or less commonly used: Bolton Lndng.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Bolton Landing is located in Warren County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Warren County: Essex, Hamilton, Saratoga & Washington.

Below are the counties that are near Bolton Landing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bolton Landing:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bolton Landing, see our County-by-County Page for Bolton Landing.

Cemeteries Near Bolton Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bolton Landing.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bolton Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bolton Landing, with the one closest to Bolton Landing listed first.

  • Federal Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Federal Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Federal Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bolton Rural Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bolton Rural Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bolton Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Beswick Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beswick Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beswick Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Herrick Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Herrick Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Herrick Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lamb Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lamb Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lamb Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • New Vermont Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Vermont Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Vermont Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Warren County Home Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Warren County Home Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Warren County Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Cecilia Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Warrensburg Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Starbuckhill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Starbuckhill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Starbuckhill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Orcutt Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Orcutt Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Orcutt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • South Horicon Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Horicon Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Horicon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Darrowsville Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Darrowsville Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Darrowsville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Combs Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Caldwell Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Caldwell Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Caldwell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Bolton Landing had a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Bolton Landing, with the one closest to Bolton Landing listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bolton Landing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bolton Landing.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Bolton Landing ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 102 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bolton Landing.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Bolton Landing. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Bolton Landing and those printed in the larger area surrounding Bolton Landing.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<5> of Bolton Landing.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Bolton Landing:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bolton Landing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Warren County: www.co.warren.ny.us/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bolton Landing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bolton Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.5581, Longitude: -73.6549    
<6>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bolton Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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