In this episode, Erin visits Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York, and explores the built heritage on site. What can these 18thc. buildings teach visitors about Huguenot history in New Paltz and why has so much effort gone into preserving these structures? We take up these questions and more as we wander down Huguenot Street.

Footage courtesy of Graham Christie.

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Listen With the Lights On podcast on the Deyo House: https://www.wamc.org/post/podcastdey...

Historic Huguenot Street's YouTube Channel:    / @historichuguenotstreet5652  

The Huguenot Street Collections on New York Heritage Digital Collections: https://nyheritage.org/contributors/h...

Further Reading:

Historic Huguenot Street Website:
https://www.huguenotstreet.org/

Carol A. Johnson, New Paltz Revisited (Arcadia Publishing, 2017), https://books.google.ca/books?id=A0S....

Ralph Le Fevre, History of New Paltz, New York and Its Old Families (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1973), https://books.google.ca/books?id=FW6d....


Maria Deyo Murder:
I’ve identified two primary sources mentioning this event but this is by no means conclusive evidence that it happened. The first is a source for which Samuel S. Freer filed a copyright for in November of 1801 called “An elegy on the death of Maria Deyo who put an end to the existence of herself, and three infant children on Sunday morning the 13th of September 1801 with remarks in prose on the horrid crime of suicide.” So far as I can tell, the actual text is lost. The second is the broadside shown in the video, located in the Library of Congress digital collections: https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.11300500/.
There appears to be some speculation about whether Maria Deyo actually lived in the house in 1801. Additionally, I was not able to identify any other mentions of this murder in archival records, though my search was by no means extensive. There are a few places interested parties could startHeritage New York, for instance, has an extensive newspaper collection parts of which are available online.