JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK

TOWN OF RUTLAND

A detailed 1864 town MAP showing residents.
An 1864 map of Black River
An 1864 map of The Hamlet of Felts Mills
An 1864 map of The Hamlet of Tylerville
1918 TOWN OF RUTLAND FARM MAP

A list of POSTMASTERS in the town in existing and discontinued postoffices.

1810 Census - Town of Rutland

1820 - Census of Rutland

Town of Rutland 1890 Census of Civil War Veterans

Civil War Soldiers Buried in the Town of Rutland

Warren Maltby's Diary. Died while serving in Co. A, 10th Heavy Artillery

1865 Rutland Civil War Census.

1863 Civil war draft and exemption list

Family sketches from CHILD'S GAZETTEER for the Town of Rutland.
Child's Business Directory for the Town of Rutland.
Haddock's Family Sketches - Town of Rutland

Bartlett's Cemetery Inscriptions for the Town of Rutland.

Vital Records 1847-1849 for the Town of Rutland.

RUTLAND

Jefferson County maintains Town contact information on their site

Four Rivers Historical Society

P.O. Box 504
Carthage, NY 13619
(315)773-5133
Website

Organized in 1977, this society averages over 600 members, and has microfilmed the Carthage Republican newspaper. The microfilm is deposited in the Carthage Library. They have published books. Their holdings include a working chapel, and a one room school. Carthage lies on the border of Lewis County, so that the society covers part of Lewis as well as the western townships of Jefferson County. The society collects material from three central school districts, the Copenhagen Central, Carthage Central, and Indian River school districts. This area includes parts of the townships of Theresa, Philadelphia, Antwerp, Le Ray, Wilna, and Champion. Their 21 directors represent the various communities within this area.

History of the Town of Rutland linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page taken from CHILD'S GAZETTEER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY by HAMILTON CHILDS, published in 1890, transcribed by Shirley Farone.

A List of People who contributed information about the Town of Rutland in 1878 to Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County.

History of the Town of Rutland, from Durant and Peirce's History of Jefferson County, 1878.

History of the Town of Rutland, taken from A HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK by FRANKLIN B. HOUGH, A. M., M.D., linked from Shirley Farone's Home Page.

Settled early and fairly quickly, the Town of Rutland attracted many people from New England. As early as 1800, a developer built a road into the interior of the town, and then disposed of two thirds of the land in less than four years. He kept a list of the purchasers, which forms the basis for our list of pioneers.

Rutland lies just east of the city and Town of Watertown, south of Le Ray and thus on the border of Fort Drum military reservation, and west of the Town of Champion. Its southern border is Lewis County. Black River flows along its northern border, at first supporting grist and lumber mills at places whose names later became Felts Mills and Black River. Settlers in the northern part of the county could, from a high place, "look away south to the Rutland Hills."

The township derived its name from Rutland, Vermont, from whence many of the early settlers came. Populated areas within the town include Rutland Centre, Tylerville, and Felts Mills. Black River village, at first in the township on the border with Le Ray, suffered a removal without moving, when the boundary was changed to locate it within the Town of Le Ray. Black River is today the chief village of the area.

From the 1864 Jefferson County Atlas: a summary of statistics for Rutland

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