New Hamburg Across Three Centuries

Resource Links:

GENERAL HISTORY

• Ancient Astronomy Along the Hudson by Glenn Kreisber
  
• Wappinger Native Americans
• The Legend of Danskammer Podcast
• Henry Hudson
• Rombout Patent
• General New Hamburg History
• Historic District
• Stone Street Historic Area
• Records of First Presbyterian Church, New Hamburg
• LDS Records of First Presbyterian Church of Wappinger Creek (New Hamburg)

THE PLACE / ITS BUILDINGS

• 1804: Survey Under Water: Drake & Bogardus
• Mary Hornbeck’s Blog Post
• Place to live New Hamburg, NY
• Timeline of Dutchess County Town Creation
• Gomez Mill House
• Wheeler Hill Historic District (Farmer’s Landing)
• Main Street Historic District
• Union Free School
• Sears & Roebuck Home Kits
• Train Station

 

THE RIVER

• 19thC Hudson River Sloops
• Ice Boat Racing on the Hudson River
• Mary Powell Steamboat
• Seth Green, Fish Culturist
• Fishing at “Diamond Reef” New Hamburg, NY
• New Hamburg Yacht Club history

THE CREEK

• Origin of the Wappingers Creek
• “Drakes Drawbridge”

INDUSTRY

• UK: Lime Burning
• Vermont Archaeological: Lime burning
• Walpole MA: Lime overview
• South Devon UK: Lime kilns overview

DISASTERS

• 1871 “Human Holocaust on the Hudson”
• May 3rd 1871 New Hamburg Fire

IN TRANSIT

• WW 1 Whitman Training Camp

MARINAS
White’s Marina: Since 1959