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For a very long time, since 1809 to be precise, the best-known Knickerbockers have been the fictional characters depicted by the author Washington Irving in a satirical history of New York. His work spawned the use of the iconic name to mean a “real” New Yorker, the Dutch focus reflecting the fact that the first […]

DCHS Yearbook Items From DCHS Collections Above left then clockwise: Recruiting Poster, Welcome Home Poster, Medical Doctor Certificate of Serivce, Surgeon’s Kit, Draft Wheel. DCHS Collections Recommended starting places: Titus Papers (150th Regiment) Thomas Collection (128th Regiment)

Highlights People 1941 VOICES Interviews of Manet Fowler Places AME Zion Church The Walter M. Patrice Collection Things Freedom For Sale Man purchases own freedom Words from the past Newer Perspectives Other Starting Points The Walter M. Patrice Collection focuses largely on the history of the Smith AME Zion Church in Poughkeepsie, which through Mr. […]

DCHS Trustee and Dutchess Community College professor Dr. Michael Boden, himself a long-serving veteran is just back from the Shenandoah battlefield. As is his style, he takes moments of national importance and allows us to see and experience them through the eyes of the men, in this case, who would have been our friends and […]

Help us close a $10,000 gap by June 30 in DCHS’s Featuring Miss Clowes Fund! Important financial support from the Members Fund of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, in addition to site and logistical support from Locust Grove, leaves us with a relatively small gap for such a significant exhibition. The exhibition […]