The Concise History of Ulster County

Before the county with its Irish name and English Government came into being, the heart of the region which it covers was making history under the Indian narme of Esopus and the supervision of the Dutch Government.

In the territory now covered by the city of Kingston, the combination of converging Indian trails, a safe harbor for sloops, river valleys and fertile, cleared lands, brought traders and settlers during the seventeenth century; brought also the liquor traffic, flashing tomahawks and fire brands, and two wars which nearly wiped out the early settlements.
So begins the only modern history of Ulster County. Written in 1946, this (200pp book if I printed it) history covers all the townships, all the major industries, and all the important people up to World War II.  This is fully searchable in Adobe pdf