An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons Chestnut Street’s first resident was

Chestnut Street’s first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal

witness the cataclysmic flood that cascaded through the valley at the end of the Ice Age as a great ice dam broke and a gigantic wall of water swept down the valley

And then her move to New York

as well as the social and historical context within which the structures were built

“see” an ancient Manhattan high and dry with the Atlantic shoreline 100 miles to the southeast

An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons Chestnut Street’s first resident wasAuthor: Clare Brandt A Livingston descendant once called the Hudson Valley, Livingston Valley, and with good reason. The original 1686 Royal patent of 160,000 acres on the east side of the Hudson River to Scottish merchant Robert Livingston grew within two generations to nearly one million acres and included vast portions of the Catskill Mountains as well. Intermarriages with other wealthy and influential Hudson Valley familiesthe Roosevelts, Delanos,