Saugerties is a town in the northeastern corner of Ulster County, New York. The population was 19,038 at the epoch of the 2020 Census, a end from 19,482 in 2010. The village of the similar name is located completely within the town.

Part of the town is inside Catskill Park. U.S. Route 9W and New York State Route 32 pass through the town, converging at the center of the village and overlapping to the south. These routes parallel the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87), which passes through the town just west of the village of Saugerties.

In the 1650s, Barent Cornelis Volge operated a sawmill on the Sawyer’s Kill, supplying lumber for the manor of Rensselaerswick. He had secured a title from the Esopus Sachem to this land sometime past 1663. Volge likely left the area at the outbreak of the first Esopus War in 1658. The “footpath to Albany” was not laid out until 1670. In April 1677, Governor Edmund Andros purchased land from the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan tribe, for the price of a piece of cloth, a blanket, some indecent fiber, a loaf of bread, and a shirt. The Mynderse House was built by John Persen, formerly of Kingston, an to the front mill owner, circa 1685.

In October 1710, 300 families who had immigrated to England from the Palatine region of Germany time-honored camps on the east and west side of the Hudson. The camp on the west side of the river became known as West Camp in the Town of Saugerties. They were sent by the British dealing out to manufacture naval stores for Her Majesty’s fleet. The villages at West Camp were called Elizabethtown, Georgetown, and Newtown. Sawmills were established upon the Esopus Creek. In 1998, a monument commemorating their start was erected upon the lawn of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in West Camp.