R.H. BLACKBURN & ASSOCIATES, Inc.,   REAL ESTATE
Main office:  17 Broad Street, Kinderhook NY 12106
518 758-1788   Fax 518 758-6211  blackburn@berk.com 
Serving Columbia, Dutchess, Greene & Rensselaer Counties

Regional Links

Today the Internet has become the most important source of information. It is convenient, fast, and remarkably comprehensive. Even a traditional historical researcher like myself can now find much of the information I need on the Internet. If you want to know what is going on in our region, the upper Hudson River Valley, you can find it most easily on many Internet sites which we list below by category.

Maps of the region

The best articles on buying, selling and living in the upper Hudson River Valley are from the New York Times and, we believe, our own Real Estate Reports which is published in Berkshire and Capital District Home Style magazines.

Lets start on high. Want to see how a place looks from way above?:  Terraserver or Goople Map or Regional Maps or best of all Live Search Maps where you can get birdseye views of any property, from four different directions. Real snoopy - visit a place before you go there.

Books about the region: Amazon, Black Dome Press

Life style magazines: Berkshire HomeStyle and Capital District HomeStyle  magazine, a premier life style magazine of the upper Hudson River Valley.
 All about the Hudson Valley, its counties and towns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Valley
Neighborhood profiles: http://realestate.yahoo.com/Neighborhoods/detail.html?sa=&csz=12534

A general site on Columbia County:   http://www.columbiacountynewyork.com/index.php

Cyindi’s List of regional history and geneaology:  http://www.cyndislist.com/ny-local.htm
By state, county historical and genealogical data: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/
B&Bs Regional B&Bs: www.innsmart.com/newyork/eastern/html/columbia.html
Data on counties and towns: http://www.bearsystems.com/columbia/columbia.html
Historical info on each county and towns: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/ 
Columbia County Lodgings: http://www.columbiacountylodging.com/columbia
Epodunk's statistics on each county:  http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php
 

THE FOLLOWING IN PROGRESS
LINKS below provide an array of information about Columbia County
Map of Area (Provided by Columbia County Lodging Association):- Click here for a map of the area
Columbia County Chamber of Commerce:  www.columbiachamber-ny.com/
Columbia County Department of Tourism:  http://www.columbiacountyny.org/
Columbia County Council on the Arts:  www.artscolumbia.org/
Columbia County Historical Society: - www.cchsny.org
Columbia County Information: - www.columbiacountynewyork.com
Berkshire County Lodging: - http://www.berkshireweb.com/bvb/where.html
Hudson Valley Tourism:http://www.travelhudsonvalley.org/
New York Visitor Network:http://visitnewyorkstate.net/columbia/
Regional Weather:http://www.uswx.com/us/wx/ny/
Upstate NY school report: http://www.timesunion.com/reportcard2005/counties.asp

MLS
Columbia & Northern Dutchess MLS http//www.columbianortherndutchessmls.com/
Greene County MLS http//www.greenemls.com/
Mid Hudson MLS http//www.mydreamhouse.com/ Mid Hudson
Capital District MLS http://www.timhttp://www.timesunion.com/crmls


County information  http://www.valuworld.com/usa/wi/supermall/County/Columbia/columbiatourism/
Dutchess County Tourism  http://www.dutchesstourism.com/storyideas_touring.asp
Catskill Regional Guide  http://www.catskillregionguide.com/places/places5.php
Hudson Valley Net, lots of info http://www.hvnet.com/index.htm
The Berkshires, general info  http://www.berkshires.com/
More on the Berkshires  http://www.iberkshires.com/
Hudson Valley Travel Planner  http://www.vintagehudsonvalley.com/planner.shtml
I Love N main site http://www.iloveny.com/ 
Catskills Travel  http://www.catskillregiontoday.com/Catskill/things_culture.asp
Capital Region info http://www.december.com/places/nycd/places.html
Get Aways Hudson Valley    http://www.allgetaways.com/city-guide.asp?keyword=Hudson&state=NY
Hudson Valley Travels  http://www.travelhudsonvalley.org/visit.php?c=1
Hudson Valley Kayak Tours  http://www.atlantickayaktours.com/Pages/linkpages/HudsonLinks.shtml HV links

Historic Site, Parks
Clermont State Historic Site, Columbia County   http://www.friendsofclermont.org/attractions/
NY State Park  http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/
Independence Trail  http://www.independencetrail.com/county_list.html
Columbia County Historical Society   http://www.cchsny.org/prog_links_sites_1.html
Columbia County Attractions  http://www.albany.com/DayTrip_Columbia-County.cfm
New York State Historic Siteshttp://nysparks.state.ny.us/sites

http://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/assets/downloads/THVsampleSites.pdf
Shaker Museum & Library Old Chatham  http://shakermuseumandlibrary.org/press.htm
National Register of Historic Place, Columbia County  http://www.nationalhistoricalregister.com/NY/Columbia/state.html
Hudson River Heritage (historic sites)  http://www.hudsonriverheritage.org/map.html
Columbia County historic structures  http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/view_location.cfm/NULL,NULL,NY0021,4,1
Olana State Historic Site  http://www.olana.org/visit_attractions.cfm
Hudson River Valley Heritage digital collections images   http://www.hrvh.org/collections/
New York State all historic sites & museums   http://www.nyhistory.com/links/museums.htm
Hudson Valley Tours   http://www.rivervalleytours.com/links.htm
Hudson Valley Estates   http://www.albany.edu/~ec5748/isp605/pathfinder.html
Boscobel Historic Site   http://www.boscobel.org/links.html
Lyndhurst Historic Site   http://www.lyndhurst.org/links.html


Art and history museums
Berkshire Museum   http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/galleries/art_culture.html
Clark Art Institute  http://www.clarkart.edu/
Albany Institute of History and Art   http://www.albanyinstitute.org
New York State Museum   http://www.nysm.nysed.gov
New York State Historical Association Cooperstown   http://www.nysha.org
Museum West Point Museum   http://www.usma.edu/
Art Gallery at Vassar   http://fllac.vassar.edu/
SUNY New Paltz Art Gallery   http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/information/mission.html
Hudson Valley Museums   http://www.roundthebend.com/hudson/hudsmuse.html
Neuberger Art Museum, Purchase NY   http://www.neuberger.org/

Hudson Valley links
Links to HV touring   http://www.atlantickayaktours.com/Pages/linkpages/HudsonLinks.shtml
More HV historic links   http://www.wilderstein.org/linkhrv.html
Even more HV linkshttp://www.boscobel.org/links.html


Environmental
Hudson River Valley Greenway   http://www.hudsongreenway.state.ny.us/
NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation   http://www.dec.ny.gov/

History
Columbia County genealogy & history   http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/columbia/
NYS public records links   http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/monynycounties.html
Kinderhook history   http://www.kinderhookconnection.com/history.htm
Columbia County museums links  http://www.cchsny.org/visit_societies.html
Hudson Valley historic overview   http://www.nypl.org/research/hudson/history/his1.html

Maps
Columbia County maps   http://www.columbiacountyny.com/documents/CCMap.pdf
Google maps of region    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hudson.+NY&hl=en Google Zoom map of HV



Search communities
NYS Community info   http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=891
NYS Genealogy search   http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycolumb/
NYS town info http://www.govt.co.columbia.ny.us/towns1.html


Arts & Culture
HV art tour, digital. http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/arttours.html
Hudson River Valley Institute, links   http://www.hudsonrivervalley.net/themes/linksearch.php?id=6
Travel the HV   http://cityguide.pojonews.com/fe/Arts/hv_search.asp
Columbia County Arts organizations, programs, gallerieshttp://www.vanschaackhouse.com/culture.html

Columbia County
Chronogram, magazine of regional arts http://www.chronogram.com/
Visit the Catskills   http://www.visitthecatskills.com
Greene County Council on the Arts   http://www.greenearts.org/milestones.html
 

HV Art Times magazinehttp://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/18/084013.php
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/New_York/Counties_and_Regions/Hudson_Valley/Entertainment_and_Arts/
http://nystatearts.org/orgs/?letter=H
http://dir.hudsonvalleysojourner.com/Theater/
http://www.glimmerglass.org/ Glimmerglass Opera
http://www.spac.org/ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
http://www.newberkshire.com/tanglewood/2006_schedule_details.php Berkshires
http://www.jacobspillow.org/
http://www.bearsystems.com/gallery/gallery.html HV galleries

Recreation
http://www.ulster.net/~mriceboat/welcome.html



Books
http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/d/3504/pc/Mid-Atlantic/mcms.html
http://www.hopefarm.com/hudctpg2.htm
http://www.diabooks.org/diabooks/category.m?categoryID=15051&page=3


Accommodations
http://www.innsmart.com/newyork/eastern/html/columbia.html
http://www.staycolumbia.com/
http://www.hudsonvalleylodging.com/
http://www.bearsystems.com/lodging/Columbia_lodging.html
http://www.innatgreenriver.com/
http://www.hudsonriver.com/lodging.htm

Homes, Real Estate
http://www.diabooks.org/diabooks/item.m?itemID=19729

Restaurants
http://www.columbiacountyny.org/
http://www.dutchesstourism.com/restaurants.asp
http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/features/hudsonvalleydining.html
http://www.vintagehudsonvalley.com/rest.shtml
http://www.newyorkwines.org/winecountry/hudsonriver/index.asp?p=39&cwid=1 HV wines
http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/unitedstates/newyork/hudsonvalley/guide.html

Events
http://www.greenearts.org/milestones.html

Transportation
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/HomePage
http://www.albanyairport.com/
http://www.airnav.com/airport/1B1
http://www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Airport/ARindex.htm

What’s Happening
http://www.pojonews.com/hudson/stories/ds901.shtml
http://www.evangelist.org/counties/0527colu.htm
http://www.preservenys.org/seven2001.htm#Hudson
http://midhudson.org/gateway/hvresources.htm