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Planning Board Meeting

23 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 23 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00   
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Planning Board Meeting. Technical Review Immediately Following Planning Board Meeting as Needed.

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    23 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 23 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00
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Planning Board Public Hearing - MJMA Holdings LLC

23 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 23 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00   
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TOWN OF CRAWFORD PLANNING BOARD PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE 121 Route 302 Pine Bush, NY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford will hold a public hearing for site plan approval for temporary bus parking at the property located at 2475 Rt. 52, designated as 6-6-3.2 on the Tax Map of the Town of Crawford in the BP-Hamlet Zoning District, owned by MJMA Holdings LLC. Said hearing will take place on February 23, 2022, at 7:00 P.M. at 121 Route 302, Pine Bush, NY. For the Planning Board Linda Zwart, Chairman

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    23 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 23 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00
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Town Hall Closed: President's Day

21 Feb, 2022 — 22 Feb, 2022   
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Town Hall Closed: President's Day

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    21 Feb, 2022 — 22 Feb, 2022
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Planning Board Public Hearing - Mark Gesso

09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00   
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    09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00
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Planning Board Public Hearing -- David Selimonski

09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 20 Jan, 2022 PM 8:00   
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    09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 20 Jan, 2022 PM 8:00
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Planning Board Meeting

09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00   
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Planning Board Meeting. Technical Review Immediately Following Planning Board Meeting as Needed.

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    09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00
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Planning Board Public Hearing - Fredenberg

09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00   
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    09 Feb, 2022 PM 7:00 — 09 Feb, 2022 PM 8:00
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Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting

02 Feb, 2022 PM 7:30 — 02 Feb, 2022 PM 8:30   
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Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting

 

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    02 Feb, 2022 PM 7:30 — 02 Feb, 2022 PM 8:30
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Town of Crawford Historical Society

The Town of Crawford was incorporated in 1823. However, its development had its beginnings well before that year. It made significant progress since its early days. When started as an inland, wooded and rocky area which grew slowly at first. Many old maps have various names for the area we know today as Crawford. Crawford was originally part of the Town of Montgomery, as shown by the Montgomery town records from approximately 1768 through 1777.

The first settlers of the area were of German, Dutch, Scottish and Irish decent. These early settlers migrated north from the Wallkill River area. The descendants of the Huguenot and Dutch ancestries migrated south from Ulster County, near the New Paltz and Shawangunk areas to what is now Crawford. The main reason for this migration was for farming areas for the families to cultivate and make a living from. Many of the old families still have descendants in Crawford. The names of Bruyn, Bull, Crawford, Youngblood, Sinsbaugh, and others are still families that line within the Crawford town limits. Many of these families also came to the Crawford area from Newburgh, Montgomery, and New Windsor areas.

Early settlements have recorded documentation in the Town of Montgomery records. Many of the early names for the area were Dwaars Kill, Shawangunk Kill, Snyder's Mill, Big and Little Pokanisink, Snyder's Meeting House and Robert Milligan’s Saw Mill. Johannes Snyder was one of the earliest settlers in the town, which later became known as Crawford. He began a small settlement on both sides of the Dwaar Kill near the present hamlet of Searsville at about 1740. He operated a mill at this location in 1768, and had a major role in establishing a meetinghouse in the same hamlet. Robert Milliken operated a saw mill on the opposite side of the town on the Shawangunk Kill at around the same period. Below Millikin's saw mill, there was a flour mill operated by Pat Boyce, as did Abraham Bruyn in the same location. In addition to these mills along the Shawangunk Kill, there also existed a combined saw, grist, and carding mill run by the Slotts family.