This is a set of images related to parcel 920 in the Town of Hurley from the Early 20th Century ; This shed belonged to the Reformed Church. Horses and buggies were kept here during the service. The first church to be erected in the area at a cost of $2000. The bell used by this church was brought from Holland and was considered to be the oldest bell in Ulster County. ; Next on the right (north) side of Main Street, and set back about 75 feet, is the Dutch Reformed Church. Church Street intersects Main Street just west of the church and extends north along, and parallel to, the west side of the building. This church, with a membership of twenty-five, was formally organized on Sunday, May 21, 1848, by authority of the Classis of Ulster. Legal incorporation took place on September 16, 1848, and was notarized by justice of the peace William Masters. The original elders were Nicholas Britt, William Britt, Conrad Dumond, and Philip Dumond; the deacons were John C. Dumond, Levi Dumond, John N. Row, and Jeremiah Wolven. The signing was witnessed by Frederick Sax and Henry Sax. A church building was erected in 1849 on the north side of Plank Road and at the west end of the village, several hundred feet west of the intersection of Marbletown Road. The total cost of this building was about $2,000.00. In December of 1869, in order to be in a more central location, the building was moved to the east a distance of about one-third of a mile and was located on its present site at the crest of a knoll overlooking the village. The route took the building through a wooded swamp, and the historian Sylvester states in his History of Ulster County, New York: ‘…it is worth relating as a testimony to the skill of the contractor and the workmen, that is difficult task of removal was accomplished without breaking a pane of glass or fracturing the walls.’ Once on its new site, the building was renovated and enlarged to seat 250 people, at a cost of about $1,000.00. The building is of traditional design with one large window on either ...