Richard Dorsey

Richard J. Dorsey (1927-2023) was Town Historian for Chatham, New York, and dedicated years to researching, writing, and producing a group of books telling the history of towns and hamlets within Columbia County, New York. 

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We've put up this website to give an easy way to access the books, by print on demand. Clicking through the links in the book descriptions will take you to the lulu.com site, where you can order the books and have them shipped to you. The books are sold at cost, because our goal is to make them easily available to everyone interested in the history of Columbia County.