Linking Patterson's past to its present: historic homes and historic sites
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People have lived for a long time in this beautiful valley where a natural trail, running from New England to the Hudson, makes a gentle bend here along the edge of the Great Swamp. Traces can be found nearby of three thousand year old campsites. More recently, but still before the arrival of the Europeans, Indian tribes from Connecticut and from the Hudson Valley shared this area as a summer hunting ground. This trail became one of the main roads used by settlers from New England who began to arrive in the early 1730's and it appears on a map made for General Washington in 1778. The center of Patterson, then called Fredricksburgh, was located at the Triangle Inn Corner, now the intersection of Routes 311 and 292. The remains of the original three-way intersection (so typical of that time and this place), and the foundation of the tavern which was located there were destroyed in 1992 when the intersection was "improved" by N.Y.D.O.T.
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Patterson was an important town, a center of local government and culture, unconnected to the markets of NYC and the West as were the towns along the Hudson River in the western part of the county. The coming of the railroad in 1840 and it's expansion during and after the Civil War changed all that. Patterson became a prosperous agricultural center and the center of Town shifted from one end of Main Street to the other; from the Triangle Inn Corner to the Railroad line.
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