Browse Exhibits (2 total)

Peter Sinclair's Hurley Mountain Album

A collection of photographs given to Peter Sinclair for his 1994 exhibit on Hurley Mountain Communities at the Kingston Area Library.

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Early Residents

Both Lapala (in Marbletown) and Eagle’s Nest (in Hurley township) were known as areas where persons of color resided, despite the fact that both neighborhoods were predominantly white. Still, the earliest multi-racial residents who bought and sold land there, eked out a living working as farm laborers, servants or quarrymen lived in an integrated community. Early deeds and census documents provide especially useful data.

deeds, Edward Snyder, freedom seekers, Marbletown, US Census