Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census,the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683,one of New York's first twelve counties,and later organized in 1713. The county is part of the Hudson Valley region of the state.
Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County,New York,United States. As of the 2020 census,the city's population was 13,769. Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport,New York–New Jersey–Connecticut–Pennsylvania Combined Statistical Area.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-profit group,the organization promotes education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization's motto is "God,Home,and Country".
Fishkill is a town in the southwestern part of Dutchess County,New York,United States. It lies approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City. The population was 24,226 at the 2010 census. Fishkill surrounds the city of Beacon,and contains a village,which is also named Fishkill.
Poughkeepsie,officially the City of Poughkeepsie,which is separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it,is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County,with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson River Valley region,midway between the core of the New York metropolitan area and the state capital of Albany. It is a principal city of the Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area which belongs to the New York combined statistical area. It is served by the nearby Hudson Valley Regional Airport and Stewart International Airport in Orange County,New York.
The Hudson Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County,bordering New York City.
Mount Saint Mary College is a private Catholic college in Newburgh,New York. It was founded in 1959 by the Dominican Sisters.
The Madam Brett Homestead is an early-18th-century home located in the city of Beacon,New York,United States. It is the oldest standing building in southern Dutchess County and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. It is also listed on the NYS Independence Trail.
The Van Wyck Homestead Museum or Van Wyck-Wharton House is an early 18th-century Dutch colonial house in the Town of Fishkill,New York,United States of America. It served as a headquarters to a major military supply depot during the American Revolutionary War and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 13,1972;the adjoining Fishkill Supply Depot Site has been listed on the NRHP since January 21,1974. It is located on US 9 just south of Interstate 84. Excavations during the construction of a nearby gas station and the Dutchess Mall in the early 1970s unearthed many artifacts at the site,particularly materiel.
Thomas Tillotson was an American physician and politician.
The former Lewis Tompkins Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse,sometimes known as 5/33,was the first built in what later became the city of Beacon,New York. Designed by Schuyler Tillman and Benjamin Hall in a Second Empire style,it was completed in 1893. It is located at 162 Main Street,a block away from NY 9D,and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 6,2004.
The Clinton House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in the city of Poughkeepsie,Dutchess County,New York,United States. It is a New York State Historic Site and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982. The house was named for George Clinton,who served as the first Governor of New York and fourth Vice-President of the United States. He was believed to have lived there after the American Revolutionary War,but it is now known that it was never his residence.
Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer was an American lawyer and Federalist politician who served as Speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1812 to 1813,and Secretary of State of New York,from 1813 to 1815.
Helena Rebecca Hellwig Pouch was an American tennis player and served as the 18th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Susan J. Serino is an American politician who began her tenure as Dutchess Executive on January 1,2024. Serino is a member of the Republican Party.
Jacob Griffin was a Revolutionary War colonel serving in the New York,Dutchess County,Rombout Precinct Militia.
Dutchess County Historical Society,located in Rhinebeck,New York,was formed in Pleasant Valley,New York May 26,1914 and received its Charter from the Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1918. Its mission is to discover,preserve and share the local area's history and artifacts from the time of its earliest people to the present.
Anne Rogers Minor was an American clubwoman,innkeeper,and landscape painter. She was President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) from 1920 to 1923,and the first New England woman to hold that position.
Edith Scott Magna was an American civic leader who served as the 15th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
May Marie Erwin Talmadge was an American civic leader who served as the 19th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the first president general of the national society from the U.S. state of Georgia. Her administration led the Daughters of the American Revolution through World War II,donating money and resources to the American Red Cross. She attended the 1945 United Nations Conference of International Organization and was appointed by U.S. president Harry S. Truman to serve on the National Famine Emergency Council.
