Poughkeepsie history

Founded in 1687, the community became an incorporated village in 1799, and the city was chartered in 1854.

The Bardavon is an 1869 former opera house where Graham Nash will perform in September.

Vassar Brothers Hospital opened in 1887, and admitted 80 patients in its first year.

14 The data for 1900 are from the directories and include only those who had been in the area before going into business.

Saint Francis Hospital was founded in 1914, by the Franciscan Sisters.

The last stop on Metro-North’s Hudson Line is a 1918 station in Poughkeepsie.

FDR was the only President to win a fourth term in the White House: when Thomas E. Dewey from Pawling ran against him in 1944, it was the only time in American history when two men from the same county vied for the Presidency.

5 The 1950 Census reports less than 2 per cent of the employed Negro population in the United States as a whole as proprietors, and there is every indication that in Poughkeepsie, also, they are few in proportion to the Negro population.

A post-card questionnaire, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Poughkeepsie, was sent to every business proprietor listed in the 1957 directory.

Anderson, who works in information technology, bought a 1960 split-level house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms on a third of an acre near Spratt Park, which offers an outdoor pool and looping paths.

In 1967, Dutchess voters passed a county charter that created the Office of the County Executive and the Dutchess County legislature to provide dedicated service for county-wide needs.

O’Connor bought in 1989 for $142,000 and shares with her husband, Michael J. O’Connor, also an attorney, might fetch $250,000 today, based on recent sales.

But after shoppers failed to materialize at the outdoor mall, officials reopened the street decades later, in 2001.

The name was changed in 2002 to Vassar Brothers Medical Center.

The cozy Nic L Inn Wine Cellar on the Hudson, which opened in 2014 near the Walkway, seems like proof of that attraction’s gentrifying effect.

Since 2016, when the current mayor, Robert G. Rolison, began his four-year term, 1,289 housing units, most of them rental apartments, have been completed, are under construction or are planned, Mr.