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Rhinebeck’s Oak Street

The story of Oak Street is beginning to emerge in fuller focus, with the combined efforts of the Dutchess County…

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Thrift Messenger on the City of Schools

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Manumission Approval

DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement In this document we see the certification by the overseers of the poor of the…

3 years ago

Slavery: Bill of Sale

DCHS Collections Documents of Enslavement A woman named Rachel is "sold" to Christian Tobias on February 4, 1771 Know all…

3 years ago

Over Here Traveling Exhibition

Remembering World War One Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, DCHS published two consecutive Yearbooks…

3 years ago

Views of the Walkway

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Expressions

The words of Frederick Douglass as spoken at College Hill on Emancipation Day, 1858, in contemporary expression. Performed under the…

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African American Burial Grounds: Red Hook

The map below  (drawn 2012 based on 1849 map courtesy of Historic Red Hook) shows a 1/3rd acre plot with…

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Black Burial Grounds: Cedar Hill

One of the few African American burial grounds mentioned in Poucher & Reynolds Old Gravestones of Dutchess County in 1924.

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