Warwick Valley Heritage: Home

• Warwick Heritage Digital Collection 
  • Includes articles, books, images, audio & video files.
• Dr. Richard Hull's "History Alive Show"
• Other digital repositories & exhibits:
  • Greenwood Lake Public Library
  • Warwick Historical Society exhibits 
  • Virtual Cemetery for Warwick's Revolutionary War Veterans

• Scanned Local Newspapers
  • Includes Warwick Valley Dispatch 1886-current, Warwick Advertiser 1866-2003
  • Warwick Advertiser 2004 and on, ask at Help Desk [Help Desk Staff Access]
• Warwick Advertiser Website
• Warwick Valley Dispatch Website
• About Local Newspapers - Tips

• Town of Warwick Unique Sites Inventory
• Village of Warwick Historic District Inventory

Historical Societies, Historians, and Webpages

Digging Down & Owning Up:  Black Family History

Three researchers explore the lives of African enslaved persons connected to their family tree.   

• Continental Army Supply Depot at Warwick
• Diverse Documents: Warwick's People of Color
• Great Chain Across the Hudson
• Historical Environmental Movements of Warwick
• John Hathorn's Revolutionary Legacy
• Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck: Women's Rights Activist
• Pulpit Rock History
• Revolutionary War in the Mid-Hudson: A Guide for Teachers
• Stone Age Warwick (Native American Artifacts)
• Warwick Woodlands: Correctional Facility @ State School Rd.

• Buildings and Places
• Maps
• Genealogy
• Other Sources and Links
• Orange County History Web Guide

Use this to search many of the webpages on this site, but it does not search in the Warwick Heritage Digital Collection or the scanned newspapers-- you must search these separately by clicking on the links and following the directions.

• Documents of Diversity: The History of Warwick's People of Color
• What is that weird stone thing at Wickham Woodlands Park? Visit some history about the outdoor shrine of the New York State Training School for Boys.
• Local Image Virtual Jigsaw Puzzles: The local history department has set up local history image virtual jigsaw puzzles.

The library provides commercial databases for AWPL cardholders to assist with historical & family history research.  All except Ancestry Library Edition are available to you from home with your library card.

Access the databases here: http://guides.rcls.org/c.php?g=128571&p=839608

The following is a partial list of books about Warwick and Orange County history that are full text and in a PDF format you can download to your computer or device; you can find links to more ebooks and e-documents in the Warwick Heritage Database.

Basics: Short Histories of the Warwick Valley:

• Short History by S. Gardner (2009)
• Warwick Chapter from Ruttenber and Clark's  History of Orange County:(1881)

General Orange County History:

• An Eighteenth Century Journey Through Orange County by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1781, translation ci1937)
• History of Orange County by Ruttenber & Clark (1881; entire book)

Warwick  & Sugar Loaf Specific Works:

• Bellvale Rising Star by Thomas Burt (newspaper published 1 year about Bellvale, 1889)
• Black Jacob by A. D. Eddy. The inspiring life story of Jacob Hodges of Sugar Loaf, who was coerced into the murder of Richard Jennings, then reformed.
• History of Orange County by Ruttenber & Clark (1881; Warwick chapter only)
• Memoirs of Hon. Nathaniel Jones U.S. House of Representatives 1837-1841, lived in Warwick, many local anecdotes.
• Report of the Trial of The Murderers of Richard Jennings; pamphlet from the collection of the archive of the Warwick Historical Society (1819; murder occurred in Sugar Loaf)
• Under Old Rooftrees by Eliza Benedict Hornby (1908).  Collection of facts and stories about Warwick Valley life in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Lifestyles, weather, weddings, slaves, folkways, etc.
• Warwick Woodlands  by Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert).  Classic field sports/hunting narrative, 1840s.