Catskill Turnpike: Difference between revisions

The '''Catskill Turnpike''', also known as the '''''Susquehanna Turnpike''''', and sometimes identified with the '''''Forbidden Path'''''<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 849. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry];  {{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27e 2002}}.</ref> started on the Hudson River at Catskill in Greene County, skirted the north side of the Catskill Mountains and worked its way westward through upstate New York to Unadilla (formerly Wattle's Ferry) on the Susquehanna River in 1804. From there New York State extended it to Ithaca in 1806, and Bath about 1808. Later extensions not normally called the Catskill Turnpike took travelers into Erie County, New York, or followed part of the old Indian Forbidden Path and beyond to Erie, Pennsylvania. Each end of the Catskill Turnpike connected to other important migration pathways. The length of the Catskill Turnpike from Catskill to Bath was about 207 miles (333 km).<ref>Route length in miles and kilometers calculated in MapQuest.com at http://www.mapquest.com/.</ref> For the route from Bath to Buffalo add 102 miles (165 km). From Bath to Erie, Pennsylvania is an additional 169 miles (272 km).<br><br>  

*Lena O. B. Tiffany, ''Pioneers of the Beaverkill Valley'' (Laurens, N.Y.: Village Printer, 1979). {{WorldCat|2927088|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|321596|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.7 H2tL}}.

*James Hadden Smith, ''History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York: with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers'' (Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason &amp; Co., 1880). [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/554397-history-of-chenango-and-madison-counties-new-york-with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketches-of-some-of-its-prominent-men-and-pioneers?offset=1 Church History Catalog online copy]; {{WorldCat|2660539|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|180747|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.7 H2smh}}.

*Carol Kammen, ''The Peopling of Tompkins County: a Social History'' (Interlaken, N.Y.: Heart of The Lakes Publishing, 1985). {{WorldCat|12421247|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|421529|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.771 H2k}}.

*Irvin W. Near, ''A History of Steuben County, New York and Its People'' (Microreproduction of original published: Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1911). {{WorldCat|5932636|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|60159|item|disp=FS Library Film 889425}}.