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Who settled in the Catskill Mountains?

April 26, 2017catskill mountains settled

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Who settled in the Catskill Mountains?

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Dutch settlers came to the area that is now south central New York in the 17th Century, and gave the name “Kaatskil” to the mountains there. This was the spelling originally used in Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” (1819).