History of Claverack, New York, USA

In the nineteenth century the school was renamed Claverack College, and it closed in 1902.

Claverack, a post-township of Columbia county. New York, 4 miles E. from Hudson, intersected by the Hudson and Berkshire railroad. Population, 3208.

Claverack, klaw'ver-āk, a post-village of Claverack township, Columbia co., N.Y., on the Hudson & Chatham Branch of the Boston & Albany Railroad, 3 miles E.S.E. of Hudson. It contains 3 churches, the Claverack College, and Hudson River Institute. The township contains an other village, named Philmont, and has 7 churches, and manufactures of hosiery, flour, straw-paper, &c. Pop. of the township, in 1890,4518.

THE TOWN OF CLAVERACK.

On March 24, 1772, all that part of Albany county lying south of Kinderhook and King's district and north of the Livingston manor was formed into a district under the name of Claverack. It then included what is now the town of Hillsdale, which was set off in 1782, all the territory west of Claverack Creek, which in 1785 became the City of Hudson, and a large portion on the northern side, set off in 1818 to form the town of Ghent. The derivation of the name Claverack is ascribed to the white clover fields which covered the bluffs along the Hudson at the time of settlement and were called Klauvers or Klauvers rachen - clover reach or field - which has been corrupted into Claverack.

On the 7th of March, 1788, Claverack was erected into a town, and after the reduction in its area by the formation of Ghent in 1818, contained 30,224 acres. All this territory was comprised in the tract purchased by Killian Van Rensselaer in 1630. In 1704 Van Rensselaer conveyed...