The New Student's Reference Work/Kingston, N. Y.

Kingston, N. Y., county-seat of Ulster County, stands on the right bank of the Hudson, 54 miles south of Albany and 88 north of New York.  It is a railroad and canal terminus, and is the center of an extensive transit trade by steamer.  Beside being the terminus of the Ontario and Western, Ulster and Delaware and Wallkill Valley railroads, Kingston may be reached by the West Shore or by the N. Y. C. and H. R. railroad.  Enormous quantities of bluestone “flag” are forwarded from Kingston, which also is the center of the hydraulic cement business, and contains breweries, foundries, brickyards, cigar-factories, shirt-factories and other manufactories.  Population 25,908.