Chronicles of Monroe in the Olden Time - Town and Village, Orange County, New York #227669

When the first survey was made, Charles Clinton noted in his Field Book that the needle pointed to the wealth of minerals which its Very rocks contained. So its wealth, historical, archaeological, social, ethical and religious, attracts the needle of our affection, ex citing our interest and study after years of absence. And now we propose as a labor of love to take com pass and chain, and revisit the Highlands and Valleys, or Cloves as they were called, reviving personal remi niscences, verifying historical incidents and bringing to record the results of some original investigations.