The Natural News is a periodical produced for CHHS Members with history, geology, photos, upcoming events, and plans related to the Society, the Snyder Estate, the Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, and The Rosendale Cement District.
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2024
- Jacob Snyder Letters unearthed by Bill Merchant.
- Message from the President
- 2023 event photos
- A visit to Tawaratagua and Raphoos, notes by Henry Lowengard
- New board member Andrea Brown
- Newark and Rosendale Cement Company Library Bookplate
- The Reconfigured Cement Museum
- Fallout from Amazon Studios airs with WJM scene in it.
- Message from the President
- Martin Puryear sculpture at Storm King is made with Natural Cement
- A. J. Snyder II Obit and horse trading anecdote
- Events of 2024 photos
- Board ballot
- Annual Meeting notice
2023
- On the Discovery of Rosendale Cement: Bill Merchant
- Message from the President
- Supporter Thanks!
- Introducing: WidowJaneMine.com
- Earth Day with the Rosendale Library: Identifying Invasive Species
- an/aesthetics continues
- Pollinator Pathways Progress
- Trustee Bill Merchant honored with 2023 Award of Distinction
- Widow Jane’s Cottage
- Going with the Flow: new gutters for CHHS
2022
- For the Love Of Place: Rosendale Library Programs
- Message from the President
- Thanks to Members, Volunteers, and Sponsors
- Remembering Volunteer Rich Barley
- New at the Snyder Estate (photos)
- Rosendale Cement Test Briquettes turn up in Natick, MA
- CHHS Projects 2022: an/aesthetics sculpture show curated by Jeff Benjamin
- Highlights of 2002 Events
- Annual Meeting: Henry Lowengard’s Life After Cement
2021
- An Archaeology of Anaesthesia: Jeff Benjamin
- Message from the President
- Volunteer Thanks!
- Recent Pictures
- 2021 Events photos
- Annual Meeting: Professor Kurtis Burmeister : Economic Geology & History of the Rosendale Natural Cement Region
2020
2020 Winter Volume 22 Issue 1
- Edward Harris, the Anthropocene, and Rosendale: Jeff Benjamin
- Message from the President
- Photos of Site Updates and improvements
- The Carriage Collection: Michale McCabe
- Cleaning the Harness Collection: Michael McCabe
- CHHS Joins History Alliance of Kingston
- Widow Jane Distillery Partnership
- Annual Meeting: Cat’n Teson’s Scrapbook: Emily McCabe
2019
- Canals, Coal and Cement by Steven Schimmrich
- Message from the President
- Condolences – Catherine “Cathy” Brooks
- Welcome New Board Members!
- Summer Events photos
- Annual Meeting Preview: John Cox
- The Rondout Formation by Steven Schimmrich
- A Message from the President
- Condolences – Anita Williams Peck, Tomas Robert Simalchik
- What We’ve Been Up To
2018
2018 Fall Vol 20 Issue 2
- Of Mines and Mushrooms by Steven Schimmrich
- A Message from the President
- Condolences – Carol A. Perez
- Look Back to Last Season
2018 Spring Vol 20 Issue 1
- A Quarry Caves In by Steven Schimmrich
- Message from the Current President and the Past President
- Tree work
- A Look Back to Last Season
- Selected 2018 Season Events
2017
- Indelible Memories by Judith A. Boggess: Personal memories of growing up in Rosendale in the mid 20th century.
- Proud of our Educational Mission
- Speaking of Trees: The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Devastates!
- The Riverside Inn of Rosendale, The Ritters, and the Exciting Travels of Lena & Lars
- Eotechnic Sensorium: CHHS Projects 2017
- The Strange Ones: hits the 2017 Woodstock Film Festival. Scenes filmed at the Widow Jane Mine.
- 2017 Events Recap
2016
- Making Acquaintance with T. R. Keator: How the enameled bricks from Leeds, England found their way to Rosendale
- Especially for the Brick Aficionado: Enameled or Glazed Bricks?
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- CHHS 2016 season: Cementing History and the Arts
2015
- The Hustle & Bustle of Whiteport
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Beers 1875 Atlas of Ulster County: But Who Was F.W. Beers?
- 2015 Season Photos
- The Balcony Brackets of Rosendale
- High Bridge Restoration Complete
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Think Tank Thank You – Andrea Frank, Assistant Professor SUNY New Paltz
- CHHS Projects 2015: Excavate – curated by Laura Johansen
- John Bloomfield Jervis
- The “Disappearing Arches” of High Bridge: Ending the Confusion
- Big Fun: The Croton Aqueduct Puzzles
- Invitation to “Recasting the History of Rosendale Cement”
- 2015 Album: Society Volunteers Making it Happen
2014
- Fatal Dynamite Explosion in Lawrenceville, 1888 – Peggy Whalen
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Frying, Toasting & Baking Dynamite and Photos – Peggy Whalen
- Article on Miners (from the Hudson Valley Times)-Michael Asbill
- Sekel Family Estate Bench
- Links to the Past – Steven Shimmrich
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Miners : An Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition on the Snyder Estate – Laura Moriarty, curator
- Walks & Talks at the Snyder Estate: Geology Walk with Steven Shimmrich
- Bird Walk with Linda Fagan, sponsored by the John Burroughs Natural History Society
- Connections: The Honk Falls to Kingston Electric Line – Gail Whistance
- Pete Seeger vs. the Un-Americans – talk and Book Signing by Ed Renehan
2013
2013 Fall vol. 15 issue 2
- Greetings From Australia — David Prentiss
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- KIOSK Project interpretive signs on the new section of the Walkill Valley Rail Trail
- Photos of recent events Ikebana for the TAIKO Masala performance, film shoots in the Widow Jane Mine
- Rosendale NY Baseball Team in 1904 (photo)
- The 1920 Wanless Report — Steven Schimmrich. A report on the geology of the natural cement region.
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- No Whiskey Here! — Contrary to popular belief, Brooklyn’s Widow Jane Whiskey has no relationship with the CHHS!
- Summer Solstice Sounds Amy McTear’s Community Harmonic Choir
- Scouting at the Mine 91st Sojourners troop spend an overnight on the property.
2010
- The Delesserts of Geneva, Lyon, Paris … and Rosendale? — Marc MacDonald
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Let There Be Light (new generator)
- Educators, Rockhounds, and Fencers visit
- Success, Silent Preservation, And An Appeal To Our Members (Dietrich Werner Memorial Fund) — The Board
- Events: Treasure Bazaar Mega-Sale, Fall Clean-Up Day, 20th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival
- Remembering Dietrich E. Werner (1942-2009)
- A Message from the President — Anne Gorrick
- Bricks from the Lawrence Cement Company and the F.O. Norton Cement Works — David Moyer
- Dietrich Werner Memorial Fund and Contributors
- Events: DOCENTS WANTED!
- For 2010 SEASON SPECIAL EXHIBIT: “Abandoned Mines of the Rosendale Cement Region” by photographer Dan Lopez
- Events: Thrift Sale, Spring Spruce-Up Day
2009
- Echo Lodge ~ Cottekill, N.Y.
- Rosendale Cement via Clipper Ship to California
- A Message from the President — Dietrich Werner
- Additions to the Society Library
- A Busy Summer at the Snyder Estate: Wayne Russell and Julie Roseleus Wedding,
- Abandonedmines.net Picnic,
- Rosendale Street Festival
- 2009,
- Hate Not Your Brother Filming,
- Father Divine Lecture,
- 19th Annual Subterranean Poetry reading,
- Rosendale Banners fly over the Hudson,
- Ice Cream Social
- The Industrial Archeology of a Rosendale Cement Works at Whiteport
- A Message from the President — Dietrich Werner
- Additions to the Society Library
- Spruce Up Day
- Visit from Wappingers Central School
- In the Belfry: Bats Toll in Rosendale by Christopher Spatz
- 2009 SIA Fall Tour
- IOCA
Wood Duck houses installed - Trail Work on the Snyder Estate
- 177 Year Old Cement Letter Donated: Canvass White to Hugh White
- Industrial Archeology at Whiteport book
- Upcoming Events
- Cement Girls for Spruce-up Day
- A Message from the President — Dietrich Werner
- Additions to the Society Library
- Rock Lock
- Events: IOCA Conference April 24-26
- Rambling on the Rondout Bard College Lifetime Learning Institute To Visit Snyder Estate,
- SPRING SPRUCE-UP DAY
- Cement & Brick Production in Ulster County, NY
- Historic Postcards
- 1898 Rosendale Croatian Benevolent Association
- Bootlegging in a Mushroom Cave — Mr. Johanson
- Murder Mysteries, Cement Mines,& Mushrooms
- Concrete On Main Street
- Modern Design Exhibit & Rosendale Retrospective
- Hudson-Fulton Celebration at the Snyder Estate
2007
- Milwaukee Cement Company (Part III) —
- A Message from the President — Dietrich Werner
- Additions to the Society Library
- CD Images Donated to the Society Library
- St. Peter’s Temperance Society “T.A.B.” Items Discovered
- Davis & Veeder’s, Main Street, Rosendale
- 1850 Book on Lime and Cement Donated to the Society Library
- Jos. A. Fleming: Do You Remember?
- Rondout: Lime, Bricks, Cement, Bluestone, Millstones: Special Presentation by John F. Matthews
- Cottekill-Binnewater Schol Distr. No. Five.
- A Trip Back in Time – Kenechi Ugwoke
- Restoration of the American Museum of Natural History – Michael Edison
- Consolidated Rosendale Cement Co. Watch Fob Found
- St. Peter’s T.A.B. Society of Rosendale, NY
- Society Acquisitions Fund Started
- Whipple, 1890s Era Rosendale Photographer
- Cement Rates via Deleware & Hudson Canal for the Year 1876
2007 Summer vol 9 issue 2
- Carnival of Minstrelsy: 1915 Rosendale Fire Department Benefit Program
- Additions to the Society Library
- A Message from the President – Dietrich Werner
- Summer 2007 at the Snyder Estate: Treasure Bazaar
- Striatium
- Taiko Masala
- Hudson Valley Poets Fest 2007
- Boston College geological field mapping exercise in Rosendale
- Keeping Natural Cement Alive
- GSA: AMERICA’S FINEST NATURAL CEMENT: THE HISTORY AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE ROSENDALE NATURAL CEMENT REGION, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK
- Rosendale Cement Sold in Philadelphia
- Bluestone Festival (Kingston NY)
- Rosendale Cement at The City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- Do You Remember? (photos)
- General Quincy A. Gilmore
- Additions to the Society Library
- Message From The President – Dietrich Werner
- Spring 2007 at the Snyder Estate
- Hydraulic Lime or Cement
- Discovery of Rosendale Cement 1825 not 1826
- Mortar by R. L. Pell
- 1895 Binnewater Store Ledger added to Society Collections Binnewater postmasters
- Cash received
- Collection of Early New Jersey and Pennsylvania Portland Cement Company Letters
- The Return of American Natural Cement
2006
- Wallkill Valley Railroad Trestle at Rosendale
- Message From The President – Dietrich Werner
- Welcome new Members
- Additions to the Society Library
- Society Annual Meeting: A Celebration of Success
- William Beard wants more Rosendale Cement (1847 letter found)
- 1898 Providence R.I. Irish Patriotic Publication Contains Advertisement for Hoffman Rosendale Cement
- 1892 & 1904 Rosendale Maps
- Field Trip to the Birthplace of American Natural Cement
- A Creek Locks Photo Album 1909 – 1923
- Message from the President
- Photos: Ice Cream Social ~ Summer Fun at the Snyder Estate
- Geologists Visit the Snyder Estate
- Milwaukee Cement Company (Part II)
- Subliminal History ~ Rosendale Chapter. Carrie Dashow and Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg,
- Indian Rock Den Near Rosendale by Max Schrabish (1931?)
- The Eddystone Lighthouse
- Message from the President
- Widow Jane Mine picked as ‘Best Stage in a Cave’
- Natural Cement Mortar Workshop
- CHHS bottle collection aids Seattle Washington History Company
- Kenneth Roosa Photographer Exhibit Opens
- Society Exhibit of Tourism Industry Related Items on Display At Ulster County Office Building
- Visits
- Step One ! Their visit served as a preliminary discussion on plans to prepare an historic structure report.
- Report From Whiteport by Dennis Howe
- The Milwaukee Cement Company [Part I]
- 250th Anniversary of Discovery of Hydraulic Cement by John Smeaton
- Message from the President
- Anne Gorrick Elected to Board of Directors
- 100 YEAR OLD CEMENT FOUND
- Photos: Ice Cream Social 2005
- Taiko Masala — Labor Day Weekend
- Willow Kiln Park Dedication
- Rosendale Fire Dept Stand Pipe At Snyder Estate Gets Face Lift
- Rosendale Pickle Festival
- CENTURY HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING summary
- Photos: American Natural Cement Conference ~ Washington, DC 2006
- Red Hook Library Built with Rosendale Cement
- 1822 Advertisement for Cement Found
- Society Member Donates Group of Cement Maps
- KENNETH ROOSA KENNETH ROOSA ROSENDALE PHOTOGRAPHER
2005
2005 Winter vol 7 issue 4
- American Natural Cement Conference: March 30-April 1, 2006 Washington DC
- Message from the President
- Consolidation of the Rosendale Cement Industry 1902
- Another Barrel of Rosendale Cement Sold (1903)
- Letter: Troubles at the Cement Works at Whiteport (1838)
- David Oliver Saylor, Cement Manufacturer
- The Rosendale News: first five years available on CD ROM.
- Reinventing Rosendale, the natural cement: Ken Uracius
- American Natural Cement Conference summary
- Thank Rosendale by Peter Genero
- Message from the President
- Annual Meeting Announced: Ken Uracius
- Photos: Keeping Cool Rosendale Style
- Testing the Waters
- Peter C. Lefever letter
- High Falls Cement: Discovery date?
- Ulster Cement Works: list of cement companies before 1900
- Thanks Rosendale book published
- News Flash! Cement Prices Flat (1879)
- Photos: Summer Doings a the Snyder Estate
2005 Spring vol. 7 issue 1
- Message from the President
- Welcome New Members
- American Natural Cement Conference: Mar 31-April 2 2005 Rosendale, NY
- CHHS and APTI receive awards at ANCC
- Photos: Care Takers Society
- Canvass White etching
- Battle of the Lock Rock! Four Newspaper accounts of a quarry fight on Sept 6, 1878.
- Photo: Who is this Dealer in Lime, Coal and Cement?
- Newspapers with Cement ads, 1873
- Photos: Spring Spruce up Day
- American Natural Cement Exhibit
2004
- Hickory Bush Troubles!
- Snyder & Sons Barge at Harlem River Bridge
- Cement by Dr. Elizabeth S. Goins
- Photo of A. J. Snyder Building found!
- David L. Wells, Civil War Veteran Returns to Rondout Valley
2002
- Exhibit: “Dirty Laundry – Wash day relics and images 1825-1955”
- President’s message
- Mountain Laurel School visit
- Site Manager Report: Electric lines down
- Rosendale News; “The Star”
- Living on Hollow Ground: The Natural Cement Industry of Rosendale, NY by Brenda L. Wood
2000
- Dewitt Mill
- Welcome New Members
- The Greenkill Grist Mill
- WEMBA Wins Grant
- A Plea for Mountain Road (poem by Renee O. Smith)
- Growing Up in Tillson
- Society members Donate Cement Bags