Hudson Taylor: The Retired Book Dealer of Academy Street We have been preparing for our upcoming walking tour on Academy Street and have found some fascinating stories about the people who once inhabit [...]

Driving with Steam In a world where we are slowly cutting our ties to fossil fuels and reaching out for new ways to propel us forward, imagine a time when the quickest way to get around involved steam. [...]

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie – The Exchange Hotel Imagine it is 1873 and you are sailing up the Hudson on the steamship the Mary Powell on your way to Kingston. You find yourself makin [...]

The Wreck of the Isaac Newton In the collections here in the Local History room, there is a pencil drawing of an old steamboat named Isaac Newton. The drawing (seen on the right) depicts the boat in it [...]

William T. Reynolds and Company Very few businesses can say that they have lasted over a century. To hit the 100 mark on anything is a rather nice achievement. But one family here in Poughkeepsie stood [...]

Poughkeepsie: “As a Place of Residence” Richard E. Lansing was well known here in the city of Poughkeepsie. He had managed to make a name for himself first as a grocer and later as a real estate agent [...]

Labor Day: The Unofficial End of Summer Here we are! We’ve made it to September and Labor Day weekend. Which also means that we have come to what is now known as the “unofficial end of summer.” Vacatio [...]

No Longer Standing: Buildings of Poughkeepsie - The Columbus Institute In 1882, a fraternal order known as The Knights of Columbus was founded on the idea of being a mutual benefit organization for wor [...]

Historic Objects and the Rabbit Holes They Lead To Did you know that we have a pair of Civil War drum sticks in our collection? They are on display in a glass case in the genealogy room. Somehow, wanti [...]

The Poughkeepsie Bicycle Club If you are anything like the majority of Americans, you probably tried a few new things to occupy your time during the past year and a half (thanks to the pandemic). One o [...]

Local History Presents: Schools and Seminaries of Old Poughkeepsie Did you know that we have another interesting Local History program coming up? That’s right! Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 7:00 PM, vi [...]

The Holland Society If you have ever heard the saying “if you ain't Dutch, you ain't much,” then it is quite likely that you have Dutch in your blood (or at the very least, you have been heckled by a D [...]