Editing Rosendale (CDP), New York (section)

=== Industrial growth ===
[[File:Beers Ulster County Atlas Page085.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Lithography|lithograph]] depicting the New York and Rosendale Cement Company]]
The 1825 [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]] deposit was the "single largest natural cement deposit in the United States", encompassing {{convert|32|mi2|km2}} between [[High Falls, New York|High Falls]] and [[Kingston, New York|Kingston]]. The cement was used in the construction of the Delaware & Hudson canal and quickly became the "primary impetus for the town to grow and prosper".{{sfn|Perls|2003|p=295}}

By 1835 the village contained a hydraulic cement plant, a post office, tavern, and several stores and houses.{{sfn|Sanderson|1974|p=137}} When the surrounding [[Rosendale, New York|town of Rosendale]] was created from parts of [[Hurley (town), New York|Hurley]], [[New Paltz, New York|New Paltz]] and [[Marbletown, New York|Marbletown]] on April&nbsp;26, 1844, the village was referred to by the same name as the town.{{sfn|Sylvester|1880|p=232}} On December&nbsp;7, 1847, New York passed a law which allowed the [[Municipal corporation|municipal incorporation]] of villages within the state.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAuxAAAAIAAJ |title=Laws of the State of New York |page=267 |access-date=2011-02-27 |publisher=[[New York (state)|New York]] |year=1854 |location=Albany, NY}}</ref> The [[Wallkill Valley Railroad]] was opened to Rosendale in 1871, with the [[Rosendale trestle]] across the [[Rondout Creek]] completed the following year.{{sfn|Mabee|1995|p=38}} James S. McEntee, a former Delaware and Hudson engineer, was the only person to have seen the opening of both the canal and the trestle.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Testing the Great Bridge |newspaper=Weekly Freeman |location=Rondout, NY |date=1872-04-12 |oclc=09824069}}</ref> The Rosendale station was the largest depot on the Wallkill Valley rail line.<ref name="rosendale-station">{{List journal |date=1923-04-05 |work=New Paltz Times |location=New Paltz, NY}}</ref> Unlike the other stations on the line, it was designed to have an "L" shape, rather than being rectangular, because the building was "squeezed by the severe slope behind it".{{sfn|Mabee|1995|p=47}} In 1888, a [[pinkeye]] outbreak killed off many horses in Rosendale and along the canal.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/07/10/106190777.pdf |title=Horses Dying From Pinkeye |date=1888-07-10 |access-date=2011-02-11 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

Rosendale was sung about in a canal-related [[Folk music|folk song]] in the 1880s called "Sari Jane".{{sfn|Sanderson|1974|pp=194–195}} The village's cement mines were mentioned in a poem by D. Taylor, "Carrying Coal On The D & H Canal",{{sfn|Sanderson|1974|p=216}} and another poem, "Trip Down The Canal", by DeWitt E. Clinton and his wife.{{sfn|Sanderson|1974|pp=220, 224}} An 1840 painting by James Smilie depicting Rosendale was one of the earliest paintings to feature the canal.{{sfn|Sanderson|1974|p=228}}

The village was formally incorporated in 1890.<ref name="gov-dissolve">{{Cite news |title=Village Government to Dissolve at Midnight Saturday |newspaper=Huguenot Herald |location=New Paltz, NY |date=1977-12-28}}</ref> Rosendale cement was used in the construction of several national monuments, such as the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], the [[Washington Monument]], [[Grand Central Terminal]], and parts of the [[Statue of Liberty]] and the [[United States Capitol]].{{sfn|Perls|2003|p=296}} At its peak Rosendale had fourteen [[Bar (establishment)|bars]] on the same {{convert|1/4|mi|km|adj=on}} street,<ref name="bad-vibes" /> while the local cement industry employed 5,000 people and was producing four million barrels of cement each year.<ref name="Wallis" />