As a pre-driving young teen, I used to accompany my mother to assist in house cleaning at an artist's weekend home in Omi. The first time we went there, we passed the wide green sign that read "OMI" and I asked my mother "What does that sign mean? What's zero miles?" She laughed, and said "No, thats the name of this area, Omi." I was left both confused, and curious how it came to be. 😅 more than three decades later, I thank you for the clarification!

Yeah, it does sound like “folklore” to me! To me it sounds like maybe a Mohican word. But if the paper said in 1901 it’s from “Oh my,” then I maybe so. Anyway, fun video!

Thank you Gregg! Always fun and informative!

Thanks for another interesting video. What is the story of "the nine mile run"?

Yes! Thank you Pomeroy Foundation!

That's a great piece of history! It's like the story of "Nine Mile Run"

Boarding round is mentioned in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, since so many are feeding Ichabod. I am closing on *one* of these houses and have Masters from Teachers College Columbia, so it will be in good hands! We're also hobbyist historians and reenactors. I've been hoping to touch base with you and am pleased to see this video.

Thanks for another delicious taste of Ghent history.

Thanks, Gregg! Always a great lesson on our town.

Fascinating. I am so grateful for these videos, as I live in Minnesota but am really looking to find connection with my relatives (long passed) from that area, especially Ghent. And, as you know, my great-uncle George Herbert Wooding worked for the railroads in the Ghent tower.

Another "Master class" on ghent History - thanks Gregg!!

Very well done. Kudos to the "best grip".

Just found your channel. Love the content. Tell me, is there any history that you know of between Ghent and the hamlet that I'm from, North Chatham?

That was awesome!

Love these videos. Brings a warm feeling of nostalgia for a world I never witnessed but my Grandparents and their parents did. Keep it up!

Thanks Steve! From the Coon family over in Buckleyville

man I enjoyed this!!!!!!!!!! and yes I remember those auctions as a small lad :)

Thank u!!

That was so cool! What a wonderful tradition and service.

Super cool. It was nice to hear the clock slowly quietly ticking in the background. You could sit there for a while just enjoying hearing the clock tick.

Great! Thanks for the info!

Excellent as usual Gregg. I wasn’t aware of the Quaker connection

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Illuminating video, a lot of good information. Thanks Greg.

Thanks for this great work!

Great talk Greg! Having grown up on the Squampamonk Flats (forgive in advance the spelling) I had always heard the rumors about Broadstairs and the undergound RR - thanks for the facts. It would be nice to hear about some of the African Americans of our community and their place in our town history.

nice job!

This is a great tour! Thanks for putting all this together!! My wife and I are going to bike the route!! When I was a child I knew someone named Royce Coon. He was an elderly man my father was friends with. He is probably the same young man who recited something for the WWI school assembly event and also was on the honor roll! Anyway, thanks!

A salute from Ghent, Belgium. Any idea where the town's name comes from?

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Wow! Thankyou for sharing this! I remember my father, Wilfred Fecteau of the trapeze act, the Alcidos talking g about Adell & her performing elephants. Spoke of the Ghent carnival, which my dad had played his act back in the late 50s or early 60s. I was very young, but do have some memories of it.

I really enjoyed this and never knew! Great job young man

Excellent presentation, Drew.

It should be noted the elephant barn no longer remains as was destroyed years ago. Excellant report. Thank you.

What a fantastic way to tour the old one-room schoolhouses of Ghent! I must ask you - two times you mentioned a place called "Squampamoc" (not sure if I'm spelling that correctly) - once when you were talking about the school near Pulvers Station (on the Hudson & Berkshire) and again when you were talking about the LAST school across from Ghent Union Cemetery on County Route 9. Is this a reference to the floodplain of the North Creek which runs south from the center of town? I know there is a creek which flows through Philmont called the Agamawuck Creek (which I believe joins North Creek in Mellenville to form the Claverack Creek) but I'm not sure if that's related? Also, I noticed in some of your other videos you pronounce the name of the neighboring town "CLAH-vah-rick", which I'm assuming is the correct local pronunciation. As a "down-stater" I always thought it was "KLA-ver-ack"! But then again, we always pronounced our neighboring hamlet of "Mahopac" as MAY-uh-pack, instead of the now more widely-accepted "muh-HOE-pack"!

This is my favorite of your history series so far! I don't think I realized the Hudson & Berkshire RR (later the "Hudson Branch" of the Boston & Albany RR) and the New York & Harlem RR (later the "Harlem Division" of the New York Central RR) both actually came together in the Ghent hamlet before heading up to Chatham. The story of how the hamlet moved a half-mile north (from the area between Snyder and Konig Roads) reminds me of how the principal hamlet of my hometown (Yorktown, in northern Westchester County) moved about 2 miles to the southeast from the intersection of present-day NY-132 & US-202 to a new area which was named "Yorktown Heights" when the railroad which later became the New York Central's "Putnam Division" came through the area in 1881. Few people today have any idea how important railroads were in the shaping of our urban and rural areas (before the coming of the auto-dominated suburbs blurred the lines between them, and erased a lot of the history behind them). Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos!

Really enjoying your series on the history of Ghent! Interesting that timber was shipped all the way from Boston Corner up to this location to be turned into lumber for various purposes. Fascinating how many little places there were like this throughout New York State (and elsewhere) which had their brief moment of "independence" and industrial importance. I grew up in a "hamlet" of the Town of Yorktown (Westchester County) called "Jefferson Valley", which probably also would have faded into obscurity (it was not on a railroad), had it not been for David Bogdanoff's Jefferson Valley Corporation purchasing a few hundred acres of farmland in the northeast corner of the town back in the late 1950s and building a "master-planned" community with its own elementary school (Thomas Jefferson on Gomer Street), a small industrial park, and eventually its own MALL (which is now a shadow of its former self, but that's another story!)

Great history lesson! I'm looking forward to the day when the Harlem Valley Rail Trail is extended north from Hillsdale through Philmont and Ghent all the way into Chatham so I can explore all the areas you are talking about!

those barns looked like they were incredible. Sad to see they're gone. Thanks for this video and great old photos.

i love going to rural cemintarys to look for people that were in the rev war and tp take photo of the gravestones

Very cool!

An epic journey and great stories. Nice job!

Fabulous tour! Thanks!

I always enjoy your videos Gregg!

I meant to say "perches" of land, not purchases...

Knowing where Buckleyville is has been the way one can measure how "local" a person is. Thanks for sharing the history of this local secret. I love these videos! Keep up the good work.

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Best explanation I've heard for this confusing situation. Thanks!

Gregg you are hilarious! What a wonderful way to teach history. Bravo. 👏👏👏

Excellent presentation! Thank you. Idea- History of what was Navarra House and what was Skype's Market building.