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Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City Lecture

January 28, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

1695 Kingston Stockade AreaThe Senate House Museum in Kingston is planning a discussion of their newest exhibit, “Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City”, on Thursday February 8, 2018 at 7 pm.

The program will be presented by Travis Bowman, Curator at the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites in Waterford. He will discuss the research and translations that were conducted in preparation for the new exhibit, giving a more in-depth glimpse to everyday life in late 17th century Kingston. [Read more…] about Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City Lecture

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston, New Netherland, Senate House Historic Site

Friends of Historic Kingston Preservation Awards

November 26, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Arthur and Lillian NazginovThe Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK) has presented the following awards to individuals for outstanding work in the area of local history, restoration, and community stewardship:

Local History Award:

To: Paul O’Neill, for the “Buried Treasure” Lecture Series. Presented by Peter Roberts, FHK President of Board, Emeritus. [Read more…] about Friends of Historic Kingston Preservation Awards

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Historic Preservation, Kingston

18th Century Autumn Festival Set For Kingston Senate House

September 19, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

senate houseThe Senate House State Historic Site in Kingston will celebrate the autumn season at the 18th Century Autumn Festival on Saturday October 14, 2017 from 11 am to 3 pm.

The festival is part of the citywide commemoration of the Burning of Kingston. [Read more…] about 18th Century Autumn Festival Set For Kingston Senate House

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston, Senate House Historic Site

Friends of Historic Kingston Noontime Conversation Series

September 12, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Sharpe Family PortraitsThe Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK) has announced their upcoming Noontime Conversation Series will begin on Friday, September 15th, 2017.

The half-hour talks begin at noon in the Friends of Historic Kingston Gallery. The focus of these informal conversations is FHK’s acquisition of noteworthy portraits – one pair by John Vanderlyn, and one pair by his nephew, John Vanderlyn, Jr. [Read more…] about Friends of Historic Kingston Noontime Conversation Series

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston

Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour Planned

July 26, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Rondout Walking TourThe walking tour of the Rondout National Historic District, offered by Friends of Historic Kingston, will take place on Saturday, July 29, departing at 1 pm from the Kingston Visitors Center, 20 Broadway.

The one-hour tour focuses on the rise of Rondout in the nineteenth century as a thriving maritime village during the era when the village was the terminus for the Delaware and Hudson Canal. The rich legacy of commercial buildings, cast-iron storefronts, homes, and churches built by the various nationalities who emigrated to Rondout is viewed.

[Read more…] about Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour Planned

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston

Kingston’s Part in World War I Noontime Conversation

June 14, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

kingston in wwiPete Roberts, member of Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK), will host the last of three noontime conversations in the FHK gallery June 16.

The conversations will honor the centennial commemoration of World War I and Kingston’s part in it. Memorabilia from the FHK Archives, the William Anderson Carl Collection, and the Samuel Bernstein Collection are featured including photographs and related materials that depict Kingston’s role in 1917-1918. The American Legion (Post 150) made a special loan of the iconic artwork Columbia by Edwin Howland Blashfield (1919). [Read more…] about Kingston’s Part in World War I Noontime Conversation

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston, WW1

Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City

April 18, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

kingstons stockadeThe Senate House State Historic Site recently unveiled an new permament exhibit,  Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City interprets the earliest period of colonial settlement in the city, the stockade era. The stockade was built for protection from the Esopus Indians. Governor Stuyvesant ordered the building of the stockade in the spring of 1658.

The original order is owned by Ulster County, and County Clerk Nina Postupack’s office has loaned the order for the unveiling of the new exhibit. In adition, there are other 17th century documents and objects to explore including Native American artifacts, farming implements, and actual pieces of the stockade. Artist Len Tantillo painted a view of what the area may have looked like in the late 17th century. [Read more…] about Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Kingston, New Netherland, Senate House Historic Site

A Short History Of The Hudson River Day Line

February 4, 2017 by Peter Hess 3 Comments

the-hudson-river-paddlewheel-towboat-oswegoAbraham Van Santvoord, a descendant of one of the earliest Dutch settlers in Albany, was born in Schenectady on December 18, 1784. At the age of 14, he worked with his granduncle John Post who owned a shipping business in Utica. Since, at the time, there were few roadways, and the ones they had were snow covered in the winter and mud bogs in the spring, most shipping was done by water.

Van Santvoord successfully ran a shipping business on the Mohawk River. During the War of 1812, he contracted with agents of General Stephen Van Rensselaer of Albany to store and ship provisions westward on the Mohawk to support Van Rensselaer’s troops planning to invade Canada. [Read more…] about A Short History Of The Hudson River Day Line

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Albany, Hudson River, Industrial History, Kingston, New York Central RR, Schenectady, Transportation History, Utica

Celebrations of NY State’s 240th Birthday Planned

January 5, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

1777 New York State ConstitutionOn April 22nd, 2017 at noon, New York State will be 240 years old. It was on that date back in 1777 that New York’s Constitution was signed in Kingston, New York.

What better way to celebrate that important document that gave life to our State than to organize and conduct brief, unified, community-wide bell ringing event in as many of the cities, towns and villages in the State of New York as possible at their houses of worship and other institutions. [Read more…] about Celebrations of NY State’s 240th Birthday Planned

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Kingston, Ossining, Political History

Chestnut Street, Kingston: The Street That Built NYC

April 23, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

the street that built a city book coverLowell Thing’s book The Street that Built a City: McEntee’s Chestnut Street, Kingston, and the Rise of New York (Black Dome, 2015) takes a look at the city of New York and the street that built it — or much of it. The street is on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New York’s harbor.

Chestnut Street’s first resident, James McEntee, was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street resident, Samuel Coykendall, to fuel a rapidly growing New York City. Seven owners of brickyards lived on the street, and their hundreds of millions of bricks rose skyward in New York while bluestone slabs shipped from nearby Wilbur paved the city’s sidewalks. [Read more…] about Chestnut Street, Kingston: The Street That Built NYC

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Architecture, Hudson River, Immigration, Industrial History, Kingston, NYC

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