Olive NY Real Estate includes the hamlets of Ashokan, Beechford, Boiceville, Brodhead, Browns Station, Cold Brook, Krumville, and Shokan. Olive embodies the beauty of the Catskills and Ashokan Reservoir. A variety of outdoor activities are available, including: fishing, hunting, hiking, biking, tubing, fishing and picnicking. The town has a variety of gift shops, featuring handcrafted items by local artisans, as well as restaurants, ice cream shops, bakeries and beer pubs. The Town of Olive which is located in the center of Ulster County bordered to the north by the Towns of Shandaken and Woodstock, to the east by the Towns of Hurley and Marbletown, to the south by the Town or Rochester and to the west by the Town of Denning.
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According to the U. S. Census for 2010, the town has a total area of 58.7 square miles and a population of 4 ,419 at the 2010 census. The median income for a household is $45,409 and the per capita income for the town is $21,569.
The town was settled around 1740. The Town of Olive was established in 1823 from parts of the Towns of Hurley, Marbletown, and Shandaken and derives its name from the biblical reference to the return of the dove to Noah’s Arc. The town of Olive, Ulster County, New York, was taken from Shandaken, Marbletown, and Hurley and erected by law on April 15, 1823.
At that time a name was suggested for the new town by quoting the following verse from the Bible: ‘and Noah sent out a Dove from the Ark and when the waters subsided she returned with an Olive leaf in her mouth.’ Let us call it the Town of Olive. The first town meeting was held on the second Tuesday in May 1824, the seal was adopted by the Olive Town Board on November 9, 1971. It was suggested by the Town Historian, Vera Sickler, and designed and executed.
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The filling of the Ashokan Reservoir in 1917 covered some of the communities of Olive. The reservoir is owned by New York City and is part of the city’s water system. However, even a census won’t reveal that the whole watershed is a second home market. In the Town of Olive almost 40% of property owners are second home owners, who are not registered to vote there and are not around to be counted in an April census.
Traveling west on State Route 28, Olive is thirty minutes from Kingston, New York, the first capitol of New York State, and is a little more than an hour travel time to the current state capitol of Albany. Being only two hours north of New York City and totally within the Catskill State Park, Olive has been a seasonal recreational area for New Yorkers. The boarding house days and hunting camps of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s have vanished and are now seasonal second homes or primary residences for many city folk.
The major industries of timber harvesting, tanneries, and excelsior mills, which once ravaged the mountains of Olive, have long vanished as the Catskill Forest Preserve was created in 1885 keeping forever the preserve as wild forest lands. The Catskills have been a favorite tourist destination for over 100 years. Today’s Olive is primarily residential in nature, with a large percentage of seasonal residents, and a limited number of backyard farms with victory gardens.