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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.
Dec 6, 2022 · To locate additional published and transcribed records for Washington, Dutchess County, New York Genealogy check: Gordon L. Remington, New York Towns, Villages, and Cities: A Guide to Genealogical Sources (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002).
Washington is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 4,522 at the 2020 census. The town is named after George Washington, who passed through the town during the Revolution. Washington is in the central part of the county, northeast of the city of Poughkeepsie. U.S. Route 44 passes across the town.
the struggle for American independence . The decisive action took place in New York State because the armies of King George III of Eng land were sent to win the war by separating New Yor. from the rest of the American colonies. But the Americans up set the British master plan when they.
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By 1804, it connected Kingston (Dutchess County, New York) to central New York and the Catskill Turnpike. Great Genesee Road . Connected travelers from Utica to Buffalo by the late 1790s. Essential for families who traveled from Albany and elsewhere into Western New York before the opening of the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal
Dutchess County's history is visible at every turn. Colonial homesteads, gothic cottages, clapboard farmhouses, Victorian villas, Beaux Arts mansions, stone churches, country inns--all stand in silent witness to past lives and events that have shaped the distinctive character of Dutchess County.
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Dutchess, county, southeastern New York state, U.S., bounded by Connecticut to the east and the Hudson River to the west. The land rises from the Hudson valley to the Taconic Range along the Connecticut border and is drained by the Tenmile River and Fishkill, Wappinger, and Little Wappinger creeks.
