NSHA has compiled and published a book as part of the “Images of America” series. If you’d like to buy a paperback copy of “New Scotland Township,” send a check made payable to NSHA for $25.00 ($20.00 + $5.00 shipping) to:

 

NSHA Book Order
PO Box 541
Voorheesville, NY 12186

This title is also available at these online booksellers (also in hardcover):
* AbeBooks
* Amazon
* Arcadia Publishing
* Barnes & Noble

John Boyd Thacher State Park and the Indian Ladder Region
by Timothy J. Albright & Laura A. Ten Eyck

This is the story of how a wilderness became a park. After hardworking farmers transformed the forests into farm fields and blasted a roadway through a cliff to get their goods to market, John Boyd Thacher and his wife, Emma Treadwell Thacher, permanently protected the wilderness for all to enjoy. Photographs show 19th-century tourists making their way from the train stations in Voorheesville, Meadowdale, and Altamont up the steep Indian Ladder Road—some depicting ladies and gentlemen in Victorian-era dress climbing the ladder propped against the cliff and posing behind waterfalls and in the mouths of caves.

Local historian Timothy Albright and land conservationist Laura Ten Eyck lived their entire lives beneath the Helderberg Escarpment. They developed a fascination with the local legend of the Indian Ladder and the history of Thacher State Park.

This book is available from Amazon, Arcadia Publishing, Thrift Books, Better World Books, and many other sellers.

Times of Our Lives : New Scotland Memories

In 2011, the NSHA Book Committee compiled and published a compendium of memories, materials, and shared recollections submitted by several of New Scotland’s longtime residents, many of whom had lived in the Town for generations.

“Times of Our Lives: New Scotland Memories” is a 158-page look at New Scotland through its own eyes, complete with original artwork and pictures.

To obtain a copy, mail a check payable to NSHA for $25.00 ($20.00 + $5.00 shipping) to NSHA Book Order, PO Box 541, Voorheesville, NY 12186. Be sure to specify which book you’re ordering, and include your shipping address!

Voorheesville, NY
A Sketch of the Beginnings of a Nineteenth Century Railroad Town
by Dennis Sullivan


“But there was a railroad town here once, and its name was Voorheesville.”

First published in 1989 by the Village of Voorheesville’s beloved village historian, “A Sketch” traces Voorheesville’s beginnings as a small farming village in New Scotland’s north, and chronicles its development in tandem with the railroad. It’s a beautiful and timeless look at the Village of Voorheesville, the small municipality that for more than a century has been the beating heart of the Town of New Scotland.

Mr. Sullivan has graciously made a copy of his book available for free digital download. However, if you’d like to order one of the attractive paperback copies of the book that the New Scotland Historical Association published in 2021, mail a check payable to NSHA for $25.00 ($20.00 + $5.00 shipping) to NSHA Book Order, PO Box 541, Voorheesville, NY 12186. Be sure to specify which book you’re ordering, and include your shipping address!