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Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District

Archaeological sites in New York (state)Gardiner, New YorkGhost towns in New York (state)Historic districts in Ulster County, New YorkHistoric districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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Davis House stone foundation ruin, Gardiner, NY
Davis House stone foundation ruin, Gardiner, NY

The Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District is located on the Shawangunk Ridge in Gardiner, New York, United States. It is a large area that covers the site of a settlement that thrived there from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries. Inhabitants practiced subsistence farming, making it one of the rare such communities in the East to have left any trace remaining. They supplemented that with a variety of other trades, primarily in the forest products industry, with most inhabitants gradually coming to work at nearby mountain resorts in the 20th century. The last resident died in 1956. Only foundations remain for most of the buildings, and only six remain standing. Those that do show a unique structural system that suggests an influence of the Native American tribes that lived in the area at the time it was settled. Today most of them are on protected lands in the area, with a few privately owned. In 2000 the area was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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