Modification of environment; lifestyles & life stories
Primary Document: Memoirs of Henry Pelton
•In 1872 Henry Pelton wrote down his memories of Warwick, as it was when he arrived in 1805, which included a sketch of who lived where and other memories of the area.
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•As we look at the map created from his descriptions by Elizabeth Van Duzer we can see:
•Roads of the colonial era are still recognizable today.
•There was a significant population already in the Town (3,747 in 1790)
•Environmental features such as stream beds were already being changed; the swampy areas of the Wawayanda Creek were already proving a source of health problems. Memories of Native Americans were being carried forward in oral tradition, but were often fragmentary.
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Henry Pelton wrote a memoir listing where people lived in the Warwick Valley when he first moved there in 1805.