Huguenot Street, a
National Historic Landmark, is the site of a collection of Colonial and early
National period stone houses owned and operated as historic house museums by
the Huguenot Historical Society of New Paltz, New York.
The village was founded in 1677 by twelve French Protestant
families who fled political and religious persecution in northern France.
Eleven of the families moved to the area following the purchase of nearly
40,000 acres along the Wallkill River from the Esopus Indians.
The DuBois
Family made up one fourth of the patentees. Louis DuBois the leader
of the group and two of his sons, Abraham and Isaac. At 18 Isaac was the
youngest of the twelve.
