Tag: Local History

Here in Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' "The Fall of New Amsterdam," Gov. Peter Stuyvesant is not looking particularly psyched at ...

The Miller map. Accurate descriptions of Kingston's original stockade, built between 1658 and 1677, have eluded historians for centuries. And ...

Lower Broadway, back in ye olden days. First in trickles, then in droves, the Dutch (obviously), Germans and Irish first, ...

(Photo courtesy HRMM archives) In this image from the Hudson River Maritime Museum archives, we see a postcard, circa 1905-1910, ...