Welcome to Thurman: 1792?
Wait a minute! What is this 1792 crap? I just did a cache over yonder that said, “Split of 1852” so how can Thurman be established in 1792?
”Thurman once covered over 800 square miles, all of the present Warren County except Queensbury and Luzerne. It was the parent town of nine of the present towns of the county. Set up originally by an act of the legislature on April 10, 1792, its territory was cut up, town by town, as expanding population made it desirable, until, in 1813, not even the name remained. In that year what was left of Thurman’s original lands after Bolton, Chester, Johnsburg, Hague and Caldwell were set off from it, was divided, the part east of the Hudson River becoming Warrensburg and the part west of the river Athol. The present town was reborn forty years later. On November 13, 1852, the legislature passed an act to erect the towns of Thurman and Stony Creek from the town of Athol, an act which took effect April 3, 1853.”
~History of Warren County New York, 1963
So ,there you have it, history and a cache, all in one simple lesson!
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