Hudson Valley Ghost Towns: Potterville, New York

Ghost towns may be a digression from my usual DIY fare, but after I visited Potterville recently, I had to share the story of the interesting and creepy place.
Up the nearly impassible 4x4 only Lundy Road, north of route 209 in Napanoch and Warwarsing, New York, is the ghost town of Potterville, New York. The town was apparently founded in the 19th century around a saw mill owned by Francis Potter, which processed hardwood lumber from the surrounding hills. In addtion to a mill, Potterville had a school, homes, barns, etc. The mill burned down and soon after a resident murdered another member of the town. He was caught and hung, but afterwards members of the town starting dying for no apparent reason. Then in 1927 there was a large flood and shortly thereafter a man killed his entire family and them himself. Legend has it that Potterville is still haunted by it's horrible history.
The former town apparently later became part of the Lundy Estate, a huge 5,200 acre estate owned by Frederick W.I. Lundy, owner of the former 2,800 seat seafood restaurant called Lundy's in Brooklyn, New York. The land was acquired by the state in 2000 and is now part of Catskill Park. Lundy's mansion is now now a private retreat for another owner. It is located about half way up Lundy Road where the quality of the road goes from good to terrible. Not much is left of the houses and town buildings, except for collapsed foundations. Apparently many of the buildings were removed when the state acquired the land in the early 2000s. I did find one clue to the history of the town; a foundation is marked with the date 1918. Some accounts of Potterville I've read on the internet say that there are still houses left standing in the woods, with furniture in every room and china on the kitchen tables. All I found was this creepy abandoned stone house along Lundy Road.
The town's old well. And some old steel culverts. With the thick metal and rivets, these may be old boilers.
I'm not exactly sure when Potterville was abandoned, but I did find a random telephone pole mounted transformer in the woods. This can't be that old.
And probably one of the strangest things of all, is this airplane wing. No fuselage or other debris, just an airplane wing. In the middle of the woods. Destroyed like it was in a crash. I'm not one to believe in ghosts, but Potterville would give anyone the creeps. And the more you learn about the history of this town, the creepier it gets!