Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 15. "1870-- William Meier (head of Hyde Park's caviar industry) pulls up an oversized sturgeon helped by Abe Atkins [an African American veteran who had fought in the Civil War as a member of Co. G of the 20th Regiment of the New York Colored Troops, interred at the Hyde Park Union Cemetery] (drowned later when the [steamboat] Mary Powell capsized his boat). Fish are being disemboweled on the beach and caviar made in the shed. The Norwich (1823) docks on her way to New York (The layout of this dock comes from a survey made in 1845 by George Van Vliet.) On the hill the houses are from left to right: Langdon house (originally built by Samuel Bard about 1800. Torn down by Frederich Vanderbilt 1895) and water wheel-- Jacobus Stoutenburgh's second stone house (before 1768)--The first hotel-- the first store-- Church of the Stoutenburgh Religious Society (1789) flanked by the colored and white schools. Later buildings: The Hotel (burned 1879)--Horning House-- Fire House Tower (1902)-- Town Hall (1891)-- James Roosevelt Memorial Library (1926)-- Methodist Church (1834)-- Former Baptist Church (1846)--St, James Rectory (after 1836)-- Regina Coeli Church (1863)-- Stone House (before 1780)-- Crumwold Hall (1889, architect Richard Morris Hunt)-- Stone House (before 1776)-- Gerald Morgan House (about 1812, remodelled by McKim, Mead 7 White, 1911)-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library (1940)-- Mrs. James Roosevelt (1826, added to between 1845-67, remodelled by Francis L.V. Hoppin--Mrs. J.R. Roosevelt (1804)." In the manuscript for a 1940 pamphlet on the Rhinebeck Murals, Helen Myers notes that "Sturgeon were plentiful in the Hudson from 1609. . . until the middle of the [19th] century. The fish were. . . caught for their flesh, "Albany beef." They gradually grew more and more scarece until it no longer paid to fish for them around 1914." According to Myers, Meier established his caviar-packing industry in the 1870's. The industry "disappeared with the sturgeon." (Container 6, Folder 6 of Olin ...