'Legacies on the Land: Historic Houses, Hamlets, and Landscapes of Southern Ulster County'Legacies on the Land is the history of the land, people, and architecture of one of the earliest regions to be colonized by Europeans in what is now New York State. The book follows the early settlement of southern Ulster County by the Dutch, Huguenots, Walloons, English, Palatines, and enslaved Africans on the homelands of the Munsee Lenape as settlement spread outward from New Paltz to neighboring townships. The nineteenth century influx of Germans,