Marguerite Gurley Chapman

• FORWARD TO THE READER & INTRODUCTION

• REASON THAT SETTLEMENTS WERE NEEDED
• TEN TOWNS
• SUBSEQUENT PURCHASERS
• PURCHASE SURVEYED FOR WILLIAM CONSTABLE
  

• CLARKSONS BUY THE TOWN ON POTSDAM
• FIRST SETTLEMENT IN POTSDAM
• FIRST FAMILY IN POTSDAM, 1803
• MORE SETTLERS, 1804
• BEGINNINGS OF THE "UNION", 1804
• RAYMONDS RETURN TO POTSDAM IN 1805

• BRIDGES AT POTSDM
• THE ACADEMY, 1810
• THE CHURCHES, 1820-1969
• SCHOOLS

• THE FIRST CLARKSONS COME TO POTSDAM

• PROMINENT MEN AND THEIR HOMES

• LIBRARIES
• POTSDAM MUSEUM
• GUN HOUSE – TOWN HALLS – CIVIC CENTER

• NEWSPAPERS

• POTSDAM SANDSTONE QUARRIES, 1877 - 1922

• THE LYMAN EXODUS, 1833
• AN EARLY CUSTOM

• THATCHER'S MILK BOTTLE

• INDIAN STORIES