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From: "John B. Dux" <>
Subject: [NYDUTCHE] Roadside Historical Markers
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:15:12 -0800

Posted on: Dutchess County, NY Queries
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Roadside markers in Dutchess County

Recent gleanings from MAKING OF NY website that can be linked from the
Dutchess County Geneology website.

Use Ctrl-F to search for family names

NOTE: Beekman and Union Vale seem to be missing (.ie no Clove Valley markers
listed)

http://mapserver.nysed.gov/data/historicmarkers/hismarkers.cfm

Town: AMENIA, TOWN OF

RED MEETING HOUSE
"CARMEL IN NINE PARTNERS," FIRST CHURCH IN AMENIA, WAS FORMERLY NEAR CEMETERY.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD, FAMOUS METHODIST, PREACHED HERE
Location: US 44, .7 MI. N. OF AMENIA

AMENIA UNION
HOME OF DR. THOMAS YOUNG, WHO NAMED AMENIA, AND VERMONT; A REVOLUTIONARY
PATRIOT, AND FRIEND OF ETHAN ALLEN.
Location: CO. RD AT AMENIA UNION

DUTCHESS COUNTY
CREATED IN 1638, AND NAMED FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK. THE "T" IN ORIGINAL
NAME IS STILL USED
Location: NYS 343, NE OF LEEDSVILLE, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE

NAMED FROM THE LATIN "AMOENA," "PLEASANT TO THE EYE," BY DR. THOMAS YOUNG,
EARLY SETTLER, WHO ALSO NAMED VERMONT.
Location: US 44, N. OF AMENIA

NEW YORK STATE EXPLORED BY DUTCH, 1609, SETTLED BY DUTCH, 1624; K. UNDER
ENGLISH RULE AFTER 1664. NAMED FOR DUKE OF YORK, LATER KING JAMES II
Location: NYS 343, NE OF LEEDSVILLE, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE

RICHARD SACKETT FIRST SETTLER OF AMENIA, ABOUT 1711, HAD FARM HERE AND
IS BURIED ON HILL TO NORTH. HE WAS COMMISSIONER ON PALATINE SETTLEMENT.
Location: NYS 22 AT S. AMENIA

SITE OF AMENIA SEMINARY BUILT IN 1835; IT WAS DIRECTED BY THE METHODIST
CHURCH. IT HAD A HIGH REPUTATION AND MANY NOTED GRADUATES.
Location: US 44, OF AMENIA

TROUTBECK FORMER HOME OF MYRON B. BENTON, POET-NATURALIST, FRIEND OF JOHN
BURROUGHS, EMERSON AND THOREAU

Location: NYS 343, AT LEEDSVILLE

ULDRICK WINEGAR AND HIS SON CAPT. GARRETT WINEGAR, WHO CAME FROM THE EAST
CAMP OF THE PALATINES, GERMANTOWN, N.Y. SETTLED HERE IN 1724.

Location: CO. RD .5 MI. NW OF AMEINA UNION

Town: BEACON, CITY OF

MOUNT BEACON ON THE SUMMIT, 1640 FEET ABOVE HUDSON, WAS ONE OF SYSTEM OF
BEACON IN THE HIGHLANDS PLANNED BY GENS. WASHINGTON AND CLINTON.

Location: NYS 9D, AT FT. OF MOUNT BEACON

CITY OF BEACON INCORPORATED MAY 15, 1913 CONSOLIDATION OF MATTEWAN AND
FISHKILL LANDING VILLAGES

Location: NYS 52, E. OF BEACON

Location: NYS 9D, N. OF BEACON

Location: NYS 9D, S. OF BEACON

FISHKILL LANDING ONE OF OLDEST LANDINGS ALONG HUDSON RIVER. DURING REV.
SUPPLIES FOR TROOPS IN NEWBURGH & N.J. FROM NEW ENGLAND BROUGHT ACROSS
RIVER

Location: BEEKMAN AND RIVER STS.

FISHKILL LANDING IN 1869 POP. 1100; CONTAINED 4 CHURCHES, NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
STEAMBOAT LANDING, 2 MACHINE SHOPS, R.R. STATION. STEAM FERRY TO NEWBURGH.
FERRY IN 1743.

Location: WILLOW ST. & VERPLANCK AVE.

MATTEWAN IN 1860 POP. 1476, CONTAINED 4 CHURCHES, MACHINE WORKS, CLOTHING
AND FILE FACTORIES, AND RUBBER SHOP. FORMERLY HAD EXTENSIVE COTTON MILLS.

Location: ON NYS 9D & NYS 52

Town: CLINTON, TOWN OF

DEWITT HOUSE BUILT 1773 BY JOHN DEWITT CAPTAIN, REVOLUTIONARY WAR, MEMBER
OF ASSEMBLY, SHERIFF DUTCHESS CO. AND MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

Location: CO. RD. AT FROST'S MILLS

Town: DOVER, TOWN OF

CLOVE ROAD CAMP A MILE WEST IS PHILIP HOAG HOUSE, BUILT 1750, WHERE WASHINGTON
AND TROOPS, EN ROUTE FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK, ENCAMPED IN 1776

Location: NYS 22, N. OF NYS 55, AT WINGDALE

DOVER STONE CHURCH A CAVERN, WITH A WATERFALL, REFUGE OF SASSACUS, PEQUOT
CHIEF, FLEEING FROM ROUT OF HIS TRIBE AT NEW LOUDON, CONN. AFTERWARD KILLED
BY MOHAWKS.

Location: NYS 22, AT DOVER PLAINS

MOREHOUSE TAVERN SITE OF TAVERN, ON ROAD FROM HARTFORD, CONN., TO FISHKILL,
N.Y. WHERE WASHINGTON, ROCHAMBEAU AND DE CHASTELLUX STAYED

Location: NYS 22, N. OF NYS 55, AT WINGDALE

Town: EAST FISHKILL, TOWN OF

HOUSE BUILT IN 1740 BY JUDGE THEODORUS VAN WYCK OCCUPIED 1776-1777 BY JOHN
JAY WHO HERE PRESIDED AT PROVINCIAL COURT

Location: NYS 52 W. OF WICOPEE

SIBYL LUDINGTON RODE HORSEBACK OVER THIS ROAD THE NIGHT OF APRIL 26, 1777,
TO CALL OUT COLONEL LUDINGTON'S REGIMENT TO REPEL BRITISH AT DANBURY, CONN.

Location: NYS 52 & NYS 216, AT STORMVILLE

STORMVILLE VILLAGE SETTLED 1730 BY GENET, GEORGE, AND ISAAC STORM AFTER
WHOM VILLAGE WAS NAMED. PREVIOUS TO 1860 HAD 20 HOUSES.

Location: NYS 52 AT STORMVILLE

TOWN AND COUNTY LINE EAST FISHKILL, DUTCHESS CO. FORMED FROM FISHKILL 1849.
KENT, PUTNAM CO. FORMED AS FREDERICKSTOWN 1788. CHANGED TO FREDERICK 1795,
KENT 1817.

Location: CO. RD., 1 MI. W. OF PECKSVILLE, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE

Location: NYS 52, .5 MI. S. OF PECKSVILLE, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE

TOWN LINE EAST FISHKILL FORMED FROM FISHKILL 1849. BEEKMAN FORMED AS TOWN
1788. PART OF LAGRANGE OFF IN 1821: AND PART OF UNION VALE IN 1827.

Location: NYS 216, 1 MI. E. OF STORMVILLE

TOWN LINE EAST FISHKILL FORMED FROM FISHKILL 1849. FISHKILL FORMED 1788.
PART OF LA GRANGE OFF 1821 AND EAST FISHKILL 1849. PART OF PHILIPSTOWN
ANNEXED 1806.

Location: NYS 52 OF WICOPEE

Town: FISHKILL, TOWN OF

TRINITY CHURCH ORGANIZED BY REV. SAMUEL SEABURY 1756, BUILT 1760. PROVINCIAL
CONGRESS MET HERE SEPT. 1776. USED AS HOSPITAL DURING REVOLUTION.

Location: NYS 52 AT FISHKILL

DUTCH CHURCH REFORMED CHURCH OF FISHKILL ORGANIZED 1716, BUILT 1725, OCCUPIED
1776 BY NEW YORK PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, ALSO PRISON DURING REVOLUTION.

Location: NYS 52, AT FISHKILL

BATTERY ON THIS HILL, DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAS A BATTERY FOR
THE DEFENSE OF "THE GORGE OF THE MOUNTAINS," FISHKILL CLOVE

Location: US 9, 1/8 MI. N. OF DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE

BUILT 1738 BY COLONEL JOHN BRINCKERHOFF. WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS WHILE
ARMY WAS IN FISHKILL

Location: NYS 82, E. OF BRINCKERHOFF

DUTCHESS COUNTY CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK. THE
"T" IN ORIGINAL NAME IS STILL USED

Location: US 9, AT DUTCHESS-PUTNAM CO. LINE

ENOCH CROSBY AMERICAN SPY, TAKEN WITH RECRUITS FOR BRITISH ARMY, CONFINED
HERE AFTER MOCK TRIAL BY COMMITTEE OF SAFETY WAS ALLOWED TO ESCAPE

Location: NYS 52, AT FISHKILL

HOME OF HENDRICK KIP BUILT 1753. FISHKILL HEADQUARTERS OF BARON VON STEUBEN
ABOUT 1777. GEN. WASHINGTON AND COUNT PULASKI VISITED HERE

Location: SW OF NYS 52, NR. GLENHAM

SITE OF FISHKILL TEA PARTY AUG. 26, 1776, 100 WOMEN FORCED ABRAM BRINCKERHOFF
STOREKEEPER, TO SELL THEM TEA AT LAWFUL PRICE OF SIX SHILLINGS PER POUND

Location: NYS 52, AT BRINCKERHOFF

STAR MILLS BUILT BY ABRAM BRINCKERHOFF. BURNED 1777. REBUILT BY ORDER OF
GEN. WASHINGTON WHILE HIS SOLDIERS ENCAMPED AT FISHKILL. LATER DEMOLISHED

Location: S. OF NYS 52, IN BRINCKERHOFF

VERPLANCK HOUSE BUILT 1740, BY GULIAN VERPLANCK, BURNED 1931. HEADQUARTERS
BARON STEUBEN 1762. SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ORGANIZED THERE IN 1783.

Location: NYS 9D, .5 MI. N. OF BEACON

WARTON HOUSE MADE FAMOUS BY COOPER'S NOVEL, "THE SPY" HEADQUARTERS OF GEN.
PUTNAM IN REVOLUTION

Location: US 9, .5 MI. S. OF FISHKILL

WASHINGTON'S SWORD WAS FORGED OR REPAIRED NEAR HERE BY JOHN BAILEY. THE
SWORD IS NOW IN SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Location: NYS 52, AT GLENHAM

Town: HYDE PARK, TOWN OF

SITE OF JAMES K. PAULDING HOUSE, 1841-1860. PAULDING WAS A DISTINGUISHED
AUTHOR, COLLABORATED WITH WASHINGTON IRVING. WAS SEC'Y OF NAVY UNDER VAN
BUREN

Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF HYDE PARK

ST. JAMES CHURCH ERECTED 1844. ATTENDED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 32D PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES, AND HIS FAMILY

Location: US 9, 1 MI. N. OF HYDE PARK

Town: LA GRANGE, TOWN OF

OSWEGO OLD NAME OF COMMUNITY ONE MILE EAST, WITH MEETING HOUSE OF SOCIETY
OF FRIENDS, 18TH CENTURY CENTER FOR A WIDE NEIGHBORHOOD

Location: NYS 82, AT MOORE'S MILLS

Town: MILAN, TOWN OF

BURIAL GROUND CHIEF CROW AND OTHER MOHICAN SHACOMECOS OF MORAVIAN FAITH
BURIED HERE. LAST BURIAL ABOUT 1850

Location: CO. RD., W. OF JACKSON CORNERS

COLONIAL INN BUILT ABOUT 1773. STAGE INN, DOCTOR'S OFFICE, HOTEL, STORE,
POST OFFICE OF JACKSON CORNERS

Location: AT JACKSON CORNERS

FULTON HOMESTEAD. JOHN FULTON, FIRST OWNER. DEED RECORDED OCT. 12, 1795
HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN POSSESSION OF THE FULTON FAMILY. IN FULTON NAME UNTIL
1933.

Location: CO. RD., BETWEEN UPPER RED HOOK & JACKSON CORNERS

NOBLETOWN ROAD. RUNNING FROM POST ROAD IN LIVINGSTON, THROUGH GALLATIN,
ANCRAM, STATE LINE, NOBLETOWN, TO BARRINGTON, N.H. IN USE BEFORE 1798

Location: CO. RD., W. OF JACKSON CORNERS

Town: NORTH EAST, TOWN OF

BRYAN BURYING GROUND. PRIVATE GRAVE YARD. OLD STONE 1825

Location: NYS 82, N. OF SHEKOMEKO

COLEMAN'S STATION. BURYING GROUND. PRIVATE GRAVE YARD. OLD STONE 1749.

Location: .5 MI. E. OF US 44, AT COLEMAN'S STATION

IRONDALE CEMETERY. IRONDALE, MILLERTON. TOWN OF NORTH EAST. OLD STONE 1818.HIP,
LITCHFIELD

Location: NYS 22, AT MILLERTON

NORTH EAST CENTER BURYING GROUND. EARLY STONE MARKED 1801

Location: US 44, AT NORTH EAST CENTER

SPENCER'S CORNERS. NORTH EAST POST OFFICE. MAY 1, 1773, FIRST BAPTIST COVENANT
MEETING IN NORTH EAST HELD AT HOME OF REV. SIMON DAKIN, NEAR HERE.

Location: CO. RD., 1.5 MIS. E. OF IRONDALE

SPENCER'S CORNERS. BURYING GROUND. BELONGED TO BAPTIST CHURCH. LAND DONATED
HERE FOR CHURCH & GRAVE YARD BY REV. SIMON DAKIN, 1776. OLDEST STONE 1701.

Location: CO. RD., 1.5 MIS. E. OF NYS 22

TOWN, COUNTY, & STATE LINE. NORTH EAST TOWNSHIP, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK
STATE; SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

Location: US 44, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE

TOWN, COUNTY, & STATE LINE NORTH EAST TOWNSHIP, DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YRK
STATE; SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

Location: NYS 361, AT N.Y.-CONN. LINE

Town: PAWLING, TOWN OF

DUTCHESS COUNTY. CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK. THE
"T" IN ORIGINAL NAME IS STILL USED.

Location: NYS 22, 3 MIS. S. OF PAWLING

JOHN L. WORDEN COMMANDER OF THE MONITOR, AGAINST THE CONFEDERATE RAM, MERRIMAC,
HAMPTON ROADS, MAR.9, 1862; REAR ADMIRAL, U.S.N. IS BURIED HERE

Location: NYS 22, 100 YDS. N. OF NYS 55

KANE HOUSE. OCCUPIED BY GEN. WASHINGTON, SEP.-NOV., 1778 AFTER THE BATTLE
OF MONMOUTH, N.J. WHEN HE WAS PLANNING AN ADVANCE UPON NEW YORK CITY

Location: NYS 22, AT PAWLING

Town: PINE PLAINS, TOWN OF

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WEST PINE PLAINS. DEDICATED 1859 BY REV. ALI FAY OF YELLOW
SPRINGS, OHIO. NEW STOREHOUSE FOR FARM MACHINERY AND ALSO GARAGE.

Location: NYS 199, 2 MIS. W. OF PINE PLAINS

HUBBELL SPRING. NAMED FOR MR. HUBBELL WHO BUILT CABIN NEARBY ABOUT 1760.
WATERING THROUGH HERE SINCE THAT DATE.

Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. W. OF PINE PLAINS

MOUNT ROSS. NAMED FOR CAPTAIN THOMAS ROSS, WHO WAS CALLED "BARON ROSS"
DIED AUGUST, 1762

Location: CO. RD., AT MOUNT ROSS

OLD TURNPIKE . RHINEBECK-SALISBURY TURNPIKE. LEGISLATIVE ACT PASSED APRIL
2, 1802.

Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. E. OF PINE PLAINS

PINE PLAINS . NORTHEAST LINE. PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823. NORTHEAST FORMED
1788 AND INCLUDED MILAN AND PINE PLAINS. MILAN TAKEN OFF IN 1818.

Location: NYS 82, 4 MIS. SE OF PINE PLAINS

PINE PLAINS. NORTHEAST LINE PINE PLAINS ORGANIED 1823. NORTHEAST FORMED
1788 AND

INCLUDED MILAN AND PINE PLAINS. MILAN TAKEN OFF IN 1818.

Location: NYS 199, AT PINE PLAINS-NORTH EAST LINE

PINE PLAINS-STANFORD LINE PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1823. PART OF NORTHEAST
1788 AND LITTLE NINE PARTNERS 1706. STANFORD ORGANIZED 1793. PART OF WASHINGTON
1788 AND
GREAT NINE PARTNERS 1697

Location: NYS 82 A, 1 MI, N. OF ATTLEBURY, AT PINE PLAINS-STANFORD LINE

SCYTHE WORKS SITE. STONE FROM HERE USED IN BASEMENT WALLS OF ADDITION TO
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH; ALSO FOR FOUNDATIONS IN EVERGREEN CEMETERY.

Location: NYS 199, .5 MI. W. OF HAMMERTON

SITE OF DIBBLE-BOOTH HOUSE. BUILT ABOUT 1728. REPAIRED BEFORE 1775 AND
TOP STORY
ADDED. J. LEWIS, STOREKEEPER, 1ST OCCUPANT. INDIAN TRADING POST AND STORE.
TORN DOWN 1878

Location: NYS 199, W. OF PINE PLAINS

SITE OF SEYMOUR SMITH ACADEMY. OPENED 1879: LEASED 1896, AS UNION FREE
SCHOOL. REV. A. MATTICE, A.M. ONLY PRINCIPAL.

Location: ACADEMY AND SMITH STS., IN PINE PLAINS

SITE OF GRINDING WORKS FOUNDED BY COL. SILAS HARRIS ABOUT 1832.

Location: NYS 82, 3 MIS. SE OF PINE PLAINS

SITE OF RED CHURCH. BUILT BY GERMAN REFORMERS 1 772 ON PULVER FARM; TORN
DOWN 1826; KNOWN AS THE OLD RED CHURCH

Location: NYS 199, 1 MI. W. OF NYS 82

SITE OF OLD TAVERN. LOG HOUSE TAVERN INN 1798, DR. ASAHEL HASKINS, PROP.
HOTEL BUILT 1804 BY F. & E. DIBBLEE, C. KETTERER OWNER ENLARGED HOTEL 1872
& 1882.

Location: SE CORNER MAIN AND CHURCH STS. IN PINE PLAINS

UNION LIBRARY OF PINE PLAINS ORGANIZED 1798. EBENEZER BALDWIN FIRST LIBRARIAN.
FIRST PUBLIC LIBRARY IN TOWN OF NORTH EAST

Location: SW CORNER MAIN AND CHURCH STS. IN PINE PLAINS

Town: POUGHKEEPSIE, CITY OF

1776 SHIPYARD ON SHORE LINE OF RIVER WAS A CONTINENTAL SHIPYARD WHERE FRIGATES
CONGRESS AND MONTGOMERY WERE BUILT TO DEFEND THE HUDSON RIVER

Location: NE CORNER LIVINGSTON AND PROSPECT STS.

MATTHEW VASSAR FOUNDER OF VASSAR COLLEGE, LIVED IN HOUSE ON THIS SITE FOR
MANY YEARS. NOW SITE OF VASSAR BROS. HOME

Location: NE CORNER MAIN & VASSAR STS.

ON THIS SITE 1777-1807 STEPHEN HENDRICKSON'S INN; 1807-1876, THE FORBUS
HOUSE; SINCE 1876, THE NELSON HOUSE

Location: MARKET ST. AT NELSON HOUSE

POUGHKEEPSIE. FIRST SETTLERS IN 1687. NEW YORK STATE CAPITAL, 1778-1783.
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES RATIFIED HERE BY NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1788

Location: NYS 376, SE OF POUGHKEEPSIE

Location: US 9 G, N. OF POUGHKEEPSIE

Location: US 9, S. OF POUGHKEEPSIE

SITE OF SMITH THOMPSON COUNTRY HOME. THOMPSON WAS SECRETARY OF NAVY, 1818-1822
AND JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF U.S., 1833-1843

Location: US 9, 75 YDS. N. OF CITY LINE

THE GLEBE HOUSE BUILT IN 1767 BY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN DUTCHESS
COUNTY FOR THEIR MINISTER

Location: 635 MAIN ST.

VAL KILL DUTCH NAME FOR "STREAM OF FALLS". "PONDANICKRIEN" IS THE INDIAN
NAME MEANING "CROOKED PLACE"

Location: MILL ST. AT BRIDGE

Town: POUGHKEEPSIE, TOWN OF

ENTRANCE TO ESTATE OWNED AND OCCUPIED 1804-1812 BY GEORGE CLINTON THEN
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Location: SHAEFE RD., AT N.Y. TRAP ROCK CO.

SPECK ZYN KILL DUTCH FOR "SPECK, HIS STREAM". LATER CALLED SPECK'N KILL
AND SPECKENKILL. SPECK, AN INDIAN, OWED THIS LAND

Location: US 9, AT SPECKENKILL RD.

ZEPHANIAH PLATT COUNTY COURT JUDGE, COLONEL OF MILITIA, MEMBER COUNCIL
OF SAFETY, CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, DELEGATE STATE SENATE. LIVED HERE
1762-1798.

Location: OVERLOOK RD., 1 MI. FROM NYS 55

Town: RED HOOK, TOWN OF

DAVID VAN NESS BUILT BRICK HOUSE HERE BEFORE 1797. WAS CAPTAIN DURING REVOLUTION,
GEN. OF STATE MILITIA, STATE SENATOR AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR 1812.

Location: W. MARKET & PHILLIPS STS., IN RED HOOK

DUTCHESS COUNTY CREATED IN 1683 AND NAMED FOR THE DUTCHESS OF YORK. THE
"T" IN ORIGINAL NAME IS STILL USED

Location: US 9, .5 MI. N. OF KERLEYS CORNERS

MONTGOMERY PLACE HOME OF JANET LIVINGSTON, WIDOW OF GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY.
KILLED IN QUEBEC 1775; AND OF HON. EDW. LIVINGSTON, 1764-1836.

Location: CO. RD., .5 MI. SW OF ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON

OLD RED BRICK TAVERN KNOWN IN 1789 AS THE THOMAS HOUSE HEADQUARTERS IN
1777 OF GENERAL PUTNAM

Location: E. OF US 9, IN UPPER RED HOOK

Town: RHINEBECK, TOWN OF

BIRTHPLACE OF BRIG. GEN. JOHN A. QUITMAN SEPT. 1, 1799-JULY 17,1858. HERO
OF MEXICAN WAR. SENATOR, CHANCELLOR, JUDGE GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI

Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF RHINEBECK

BOGARDUS LAND. TRAINING GROUND OF REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. FORMERLY BELONGED
TO WILLIAM TRAPHAGEN, FOUNDER OF VILLAGE OF RHINEBECK

Location: US 9, AT RHINEBECK P.O.

HOUSE OCCUPIED BY GEN. RICHARD MONTGOMERY WHEN HE TOOK COMMAND OF THE NORTHERN
FORCES 1775

Location: LIVINGSTON ST., RHINEBECK

JOHN BENNER HOUSE. HELD THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES IN THE TOWN.
CONDUCTED BY THE REV. FREEBORN GARRETSON, 1791-1792

Location: US 9, 2 MIS. S. OF RHINEBECK

LANDSMAN'S KILL WHOSE WATERS OPERATED THE MILLS OF SCHUYLER, MONTGOMERY,
MORGAN LEWIS LIVINGSTON AND MANY OTHER

Location: US 9, AT BR. IN RHINEBECK

LONG DOCK. LANDING FOR FERRY CHARTERED 1752, CONNECTING THE ULSTER AS SALISBURY
PIKE ON THE EAST WITH THE ULSTER AND DELAWARE ON THE WEST

Location: NYS 308, 1 MI. W. OF RHINEBECK

OLD RHINEBECK. ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE VILLAGE OF RHINEBECK. SITE OF OLDEST
CHURCH IN NORTHERN PRECINCT OF DUTCHESS COUNTY

Location: US 9, 2 MIS. N. OF RHINEBECK

PETER PULTZ' TAVERN. BUILT ABOUT 1800 KNOWN ALSO AS "BOWERY HOUSE". WAS
SOCIAL CENTER OF COMMUNITY; ITS COURTROOM, THEATER & BALLROOM WAS HDQTS.
"YELLOW BIRD" STAGE LINE

Location: NYS 308, E. OF MULBERRY ST., IN RHINEBECK

RUINS OF THE KIP-BEEKMAN-HEERMANCE HOUSE. BUILT 1700 BY HENDRICK KIP, PATENTEE.
HOME OF COL. HENRY BEEKMAN, JR. LATER OF HIS GRANDSON COL. HENRY B. LIVINGSTON
OF THE REV. ARMY

Location: NYS 308, .5 MI. E. OF RHINECLIFF

WESTWARD ON THE LEFT (RIGHT) GASMERE - BIRTHPLACE - W.A. DUER. ONCE PRESIDENT
OF COLUMBIA COL. ON THE RIGHT BEYOND - ELLERSLIE, HOME OF LEVI P. MORTON,
GOV. OF N.Y. & VICE PRES. OF U.S.

Location: US 9, 2 MIS. S. OF RHINEBECK

WHITE CORNER BUILT IN 1816 BY CHRISTIAN SCHELL. ONCE THE COMMERCIAL AND
FINANCIAL CENTER OF THE COMMUNITY

Location: NW CORNER MILL & W. MARKET STS. IN RHINEBECK

Town: WAPPINGER, TOWN OF

MESIER PARK. PRE-REVOLUTIONARY HOUSE HOME OF MESIER FAMILY FROM 1777 TO
1890
ACQUIRED BY VILLAGE 1891

Location: NYS 9D, AT WAPPINGERS FALLS

Town: WASHINGTON, TOWN OF

JACOB WILLETTS, DEBORAH WILLETTS, WIDELY KNOWN EDUCATORS LIVED HERE IN
EARLY

19TH CENTURY

Location: NYS 343, 1/4 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK

MEETING HOUSE. BUILT IN 1780 BY THE NINE PARTNERS MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
OF FRIENDS

Location: NYS 343, .5 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK

NINE PARTNERS SCHOOL. ON THIS SITE, 1796-1863, INFLUENTIAL IN EDUCATION
FAMOUS FOR ITS TEACHERS AND PUPILS

Location: NYS 343, 3/4 MI. E. OF MILLBROOK

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