INTRODUCTION TO "THE FARM"

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"The Farm," as it is called by family members, is located in the "West Glenville" section of the Town of Glenville, Schenectady County, New York, USA. This is in the very northwestern part of the Town and is only two miles from the borders with Montgomery and Saratoga Counties. The area is found on the "Patersonville" quadrangle of the maps of the USA produced by the Geological Survey. Below are reproductions of those parts of the "Topo" that show Lovers Lane. The cluster of houses at the "T" intersection is the center of the hamlet of West Glenville. The area was first settled in 1795. Lovers lane is the two dashed lines that go from the center of the map toward the upper left. On the second map, the house is the black, small rectangle at the end of the lane. The steep, two step ridge past the house is clearly denoted by the close together brown lines.  Neither map shows any houses on the lane but mine, which is the way it was in 1964, when I purchased the property. Now, however, there are ten houses in front of my property. Fortunately, the closest two are 1500 feet away and no new ones can be built any closer. Actually even these two are not in view because of trees.

The six acre pond mentioned on the next page is located in the white area on the map above (#2) that is shown as marsh to the right of the lane and down from the house. There is a 715 foot long, 15 foot high dam that created the pond from the inflow of the "Crabbskill" stream that flows from the left and under the lane. It is a major tributary of the "Alplaus Creek." Unfortunately, the pond is mostly too shallow to prevent the growth of weeds. Only about one-quarter of the pond directly in front of the dam is twelve feet deep. The pond was created by the previous owners of the property.

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