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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Salt Point (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 Salt Point. 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 Salt Point ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Salt Point: Salt Pt.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Salt Point. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Salt Point.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Salt Point is located in Dutchess County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dutchess County: Fairfield (CT), Litchfield (CT), Berkshire (MA), Columbia, Orange, Putnam & Ulster.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Salt Point ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Salt Point.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Salt Point - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Salt Point had a population of 155 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Netherwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Netherwood is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Netherwood
  • Hibernia
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Washington Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Washington Hollow is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Hollow
  • Clinton Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Clinton Hollow is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton Hollow
  • Clinton Corners
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Gretna
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Gretna is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
  • Pleasant Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Shunpike
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Willow Brook
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Willow Brook is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Brook
  • Pleasant Plains
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Schultzville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Schultzville is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schultzville
  • South Millbrook
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • South Millbrook is located in Dutchess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Millbrook
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Millbrook
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • East Park
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • East Park is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Park
    • Verbank Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Verbank Village is located in Dutchess County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbank Village

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

Newspapers Published in Salt Point ...

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 122 newspapers that have been published in the area around Salt Point.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Salt Point, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Salt Point.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Salt Point:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Salt Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Salt Point, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.