The quintessential local history book, History of Putnam County, New York, first published and written by William S. Pelletreau in 1886, offered by Landmarks in a reprinted, handsome blue linen hardback book. It features over 780 pages of county history, biographies, portraits and illustrations, and an index of names and subjects.

Chapter titles include: Early Discoveries; Adolph Philipse and His Patent; The Philipse Family; The Division of the Highland Patent; The Wappinger Indians; Confiscation and Sale of the Philipse Shares; The Gore; The Oblong; Settlement and Population; Roads & Ferries; Political Divisions; Establishment of Putnam County; County Institutions; The Claim of John Jacob Astor; Putnam County During the Civil War; The Militia; The Bench and Bar; Medical History; Education; and extensive chapters on each of the six towns, plus Personal Sketches.