Introduction: Sources

Image Citations

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Map of the Town of Olive, c. 1890 with edits — sourced through Town of Olive. “Archives.” Accessed October 11, 2025. https://townofolive.org/archives/.

Bibliography

Bierhorst, John, and Olive Natural Heritage Society. The Ashokan Catskills: A Natural History. Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press ; Arkville, 1995.

Calhoun, Camilla. “NYC Watershed Retrospective: A Town Called Olive.” Catskill Archives, June 1997. https://www.catskillarchive.com/watershed/olive.htm.

Riddle, Safiyah. “Hudson Valley Towns Have a New York City Problem.” THE CITY - NYC News, March 22, 2023. http://www.thecity.nyc/2023/03/22/nyc-second-homes-hudson-valley-ulster-decline/. 

Steuding, Bob. The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir. Rev. ed. Fleischmanns, N.Y.: Purple Mountain Press, 1989.

Sickler, Vera Van Steenburgh. History of the Town of Olive: 1823-1973. Olive[?], New York, 1973.

U.S. Census Bureau, "Annual Geographic Information Table," 2023. Geography, GEO Geography Information, Table GEOINFO, 2023, accessed on April 9, 2025, https://data.census.gov/table/GEOINFO2023.GEOINFO?q=Olive+town,+New+York&d=GEO+Geography+Information.

——— "RACE," 2020. Decennial Census, DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), Table P1, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2025, https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P1?g=060XX00US3611154749.