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[[Image:People.jpg|300px|thumb|right|<center>People Made It Happen Here, Cover</center>]]
People Made It Happen Here: History of the Town of Rensselaerville c.a. 1788-1950, was published by The [[Rensselaerville Historical Society]] in 1977. 

Here are some excerpts posted on this site with permission of the [[Rensselaerville Historical Society]]:
*[[Baptist Church of Preston Hollow]]

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Image:Ren 8.jpg|<center>Rensselaerville in 1807</center>
Image:Ren 20.jpg|<center>Medusa from 1866 Beers map</center>
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Image:Ren 2.jpg|<center>Main Street looking West from Presbyterian corner</center>
Image:Ren 5.jpg|<center>Lower Main Street from the Medusa Road </center>
Image:Ren 6.jpg|<center>The village of Rensselaerville from above the Lincoln Pond Road</center>
Image:Ren 7.jpg|<center>State Road looking North</center>
Image:Ren 9.jpg|<center>About 1900</center>
Image:Ball Team 1910.jpg|<center>July 4, 1910, Baseball game, Rensselaer</center>
Image:Ren 17.jpg|<center>The old "White" Rensselaerville Village Bridge across Ten Mile Creek, wooden plank bed. Gristmill seen under the bridge. This is the oldest bridge recalled. Around 1914 this was replaced by another. Around 1952 the present concrete bridge was built.</center>
Image:Ren 4.jpg|<center>Cooksburg covered bridge</center>
Image:Ren 60.jpg|<center>Burhan's residence in 1910, Cooksburg</center>
Image:Ren 61.jpg|<center>Barn belonging to [[George Burhan]], picture taken 1910-1915, Cooksburg</center>
Image:Ren 19.jpg|<center>Main St. in Medusa ca. 1900, Hotel on left, ball room over shed was used for dances, meetings, justice court</center>
Image:Ren 22.jpg|<center>Medusa Band was called the "Citizen's Band", operating ca.1888</center>
Image:Ren 23.jpg|<center>Medusa Band Wagon. This wagon was built in the 1830s for a small circus. This circus went bankrupt in Richmondville, N.Y. in 1835. The Richmondville Band bought the wagon and used it for several years. They sold it to the Chesterville Band {Westerlo}. The Medusa Band purchased the wagon before the close of the last century, it was last used in a Medusa church entertainment during the 1930s</center>
Image:Ren 24.jpg|<center>Medusa Baseball Team ca. 1924</center>
Image:Ren 74.jpg|<center>Medusa bridge and dam that furnished waterpower for the paper mill, Bridge built in 1899</center>
Image:Ren 94.jpg|<center>"Doolittle Homestead"</center>
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