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Postcard: Rondout's Wilbur finishing and loading dock for bluestone. Courtesy of Friends of Historic Kingston.
Ulster County Bluestone
Summer 2024
The number of fascinating websites and books containing information on the bluestone industry in Ulster County and its neighbors indicates the resources’ importance in the development of our area and beyond. They cover not just bluestone’s impact on the physical places, but its impact on the lives of thousands of families. Bluestone was so crucial to the county’s residents and their story that even my modest historical archives easily provided a dozen books with insight into the wide-ranging business of the region’s bluestone.
This pictorial layout is presented here as a downloadable PDF file: