Cairo Is the Streams Wending in Every Direction, While Hills Rise One Center of the Base
CA I RO. BY HENRY WHITTEMORE. N THE NORTHEASTERN part of the county are little villages scattered through the valleys, with small I seven towns, forming a triangle, of which Cairo is the streams wending in every direction, while hills rise one center of the base. It is bounded on the north by above another as far as the eye can reach; and, on a Durham and Greenville, on the east by Coxsackie and clear day, the Berkshire Hills and Green Mountains may Athens on the south by Catskill, and on the west by Wind readily be discerned. The principal streams are the ham, Jewett and Hunter. The Potick Creek flows in a Katskill Creek, the !Shingle Kill and Plattekill, the Jan southwesterly direction along the eastern part of the town, de-Bakker and Potick Creeks. These have numerous separating it from the town of Athens . The town of Cairo small tributaries, which, rising in the mountains, find was formed from Coxsackie, Catskill and Freehold (now their way down the slopes until they reach the main Durham), March 26th 1803, as Canton; and on the 6th streams in the valley below. The soil is a clayey, grav of April, 1808, the name was changed to Cairo. The elly and shaly loam, fertile in the valleys, but of very name of Cairo was suggested by Asabel Stanley, a prom poor quality among the hills. inent citizen of the town, from Cairo in Egypt. By an The town contains 36,109 acres, about one-third of act of the Legislature, in 1803, "for dividing certain which is unimproved.
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