Editing Hartwick, New York (section)

==History==
The town was named for [[Lutheran]] [[minister of religion|minister]] [[John Christopher Hartwick]] (1714&ndash;1796), an early landowner of the town. He bought the area (the Hartwick Patent, granted 1761) that now constitutes the township from the [[Mohawk nation|Mohawk Indians]] in 1763. Discontented with the sparsely settled communities of [[Palatine]] Germans in the Mohawk Valley to the north, which Hartwick believed made people immoral, he bought the original Hartwick Patent with the intent to build a "New Jerusalem". Hartwick tried to control development, stipulating that residents look to him as their religious superior. By the 1790s the shrewd land speculator [[William Cooper (judge)|William Cooper]] had sold most of Hartwick's land against his wishes.

Hartwick requested in his will that a Lutheran seminary be opened with his estate. Upon Hartwick's death in 1797, efforts to do this started but were complicated by the fact that Hartwick left his estate to [[Jesus Christ]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}  The Lutheran seminary established at Hartwick in 1797 was incorporated in 1816. It moved to [[Oneonta, New York|Oneonta]] after 1931 [http://www.google.com/search?q=hartwick+seminary&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers] and in 1947 merged with the [[Hartwick College]], established in 1927.[http://www.google.com/search?q=hartwick+seminary&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers#hl=en&tbs=ar:1&tbm=nws&sclient=psy-ab&q=hartwick+seminary+oneonta+merger&pbx=1&oq=hartwick+seminary+oneonta+merger&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=42729l43696l2l43821l7l7l0l0l0l0l265l1231l0.3.3l6l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9d6a38968ad3284a&biw=1600&bih=709] The town was established in 1802 from the [[Otsego, New York|Town of Otsego]]. In 1803, the north town line was altered.

The largest commercial enterprise to occur in Hartwick was probably the [[Southern New York Railroad]] which was constructed to the town in 1901. It was supported by extensive shops, a car barn and yards on the southeast side of the village. Many of the hamlets and crossings still show architectural signs related to the trolley line nearly a century after the last passenger service. {{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}

The [[Hartwick Historic District]], [[Mathewson–Bice Farmhouse and Mathewson Family Cemetery]], [[Old Hartwick Village Cemetery]], and [[The White House (Hartwick, New York)|The White House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20120914.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=September 14, 2012|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 9/04/12 through 9/07/12|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20130607.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=June 7, 2013|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 5/28/13 through 5/31/13 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20130830.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=August 30, 2013|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 8/19/13 through 8/23/13 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>