1824: Lafayette in Dutchess County

Monday, September 16th12:00 noon to 1:30 pmPoughkeepsie Thursday, September 19th12:00 noonFishkill Big Moves & Intimate Gestures: Why Lafayette Has Meant So Much to So Many for So Long You are invited to a special reflection and celebration of Revolutionary War Maj. General Lafayette on the 200th anniversary of his late-in-life local visit. Free and enslaved […]
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Collins Estate

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, […]
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Spotlight: Hudson River

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 […]
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DCHS Horizons

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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Horizons: Women’s Right to Vote

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NYS Abolition

 “What to the slave is the 4th of July?”   At the heart of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 pointed question was the unmistakable irony that the United States was founded on the 1776 premise that all are created equal. When Alexander Hamilton successfully led New York’s US Constitutional Convention in Poughkeepsie in 1788 to endorse joining […]
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2023 Annual Member Meeting

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Saturday, June 3rd 2023

Rhinebeck’s Oak Street

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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Thrift Messenger on the City of Schools

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