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Layers of Dutchess County History are Exposed in a Rare Personal Setting By Bill Jeffway A version of this article appeared in the May 17, 2023 issue of the Northern/Southern Dutchess News. A rare weaving together of the varied and rich threads of Dutchess County history will come together at the historic 1840 Collins Estate, […]

A message from Hudson Views: Hudson Highland Tours, LLC, known as Hudson Views, is pleased to sponsor this ongoing “spotlight” from the Dutchess County Historical Society featuring the beauty of the Hudson River. The strategic role of the Hudson River during the Revolutionary War prompted George Washington to call it the key to the North […]

DCHS Horizons:Seeing the threads that connect the present to the past helps us create a better future. Whether we look sequentially back across a long trail (as with the path to women’s right to vote), or look forward to anniversaries of national events through the lens of local history (as with Black history relative to […]

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 Black Voices in Freedom’s Pursuit: America’s Revolutionary War   “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” At the heart of Frederick Douglass’s pointed question was the unmistakable irony that the country based on the 1776 premise that all are created equal, by the time of its 1788 Constitution had created the so-called three-fifths […]

The story of Oak Street is beginning to emerge in fuller focus, with the combined efforts of the Dutchess County Historical Society, Rhinebeck Historical Society and Mr. Frischknechkt’s 7th Grade Civics Class in the spring of 2023. The student video can be seen at 46:20 (min:sec) in the video below. To view within the page, […]

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DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement In this document we see the certification by the overseers of the poor of the Town of Washington (Stephen Thorn and Thomas Howard), permitting Isaac Smith to manumit an enslaved woman named Dinah.They certify that she is under the age of 45, and in such a condition that she will […]