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Bike Tour Map Was Prepared by Conrad Geoscience Corp Fishkill Village Hall, 1095 Main Street St. Mary’s Chapel, Bedford Avenue, Fishkill The DuBois House, 1153 Main St, Fishkill The Mansion House, 1140 Main St, Fishkill Henry Van Wyck was the first mayor, or president, of Fishkill Village and built About 6.5 weeks before the dedication of St Joachim’s, the pastor of that parish, The DuBois House , which today contains offices of the First Reformed Church The Mansion House , built in 1789 by Isaac Van Wyck , served as an inn to what is known as Van Wyck Hal l in 1901 after his travels west and north. Van Rev. James Coyle , bought a lot on Bedford Ave. in Fishkill Village for $200 from and the Fishkill Food Pantry, is one of the earliest homes in the village, dating to accommodate travelers on the stage coach runs from New York City to Albany. Wyck Hall was an opera house / theater. Summer stock plays were held in this James Henry and Henrietta Maria Oppie . Three years and $1500 later, on Oct. approximately 1750, but it does not stand on its original site. It was moved here Isaac, along with another man, founded a stage coach line that operated between building into the 1950s. Henry was of the line of Van Wycks that descend from 14, 1864, the Very Reverend William Starrs , Vicar of the Diocese of New York, from a short distance away in 1928 when the Albany Post Road was extended these two cities. As it was approximately half way between, it was the perfect Cornelius Van Wyck whose home is one mile south of the village, now known as dedicated the church and called it St. Mary’s. The 25’ x 30’ building could hold up through the Green Fly Swamp (north end of Fishkill along what is now Rt. 9), and overnight lodging place for the two day trip. Its dance hall and dining facilities Van Wyck Homestead . Circa 1850 Henry traveled west for the “gold rush” making to 100 people. Mostly workers from the Glenham woolen mills made up the changed from a dirt road to concrete. The original Post Road went west along made it a popular social gathering place for locals, too. The first floor contained watches for the prospectors in California; then travelled north to Oregon Territory congregation. Today, high above the front door of the Chapel is a stone stating the Route 52 (Main Street), and turned north up Osborn Hill. During the Revolution, as the New York Provincial dining, cooking and administrative facilities with two guest rooms, the second floor when he befriended the Indians and the gold prospectors. He spoke the language of the Klamath people and church building “was erected in 1961”. Just above the front door is a plaque, issued by the National Register of Congress was meeting in the Reformed Church, the state’s Committee of Safety , chaired by Derek was all guest rooms, and the entire third floor was a ballroom. Mansion House stables, at the rear of the was considered one of them. He is the most noted explorer of the Oregon Territory. Later, he moved to Virginia Historical Places, stating the same. However, the Fishkill Journal, dated July 3, 1862, reports: “a new Catholic Brinckerhoff , met in the DuBois house. The Committee of Safety was in response to citizen groups banning building, housed the stage line’s horses. A horrific fire consumed the stables in 1836 killing seventeen horses. where he started the first truck farming enterprise in America. Henry Van Wyck and his wife are buried in church is being erected in this Village. Mr. Samuel Adams is the contractor”. The Fishkill Journal, dated Sept. together against taxation without representation; the origin of militias in young America. Remodeled over the years, Mansion House has hosted several and varied businesses, and today holds Fishkill Rural cemetery . 25, 1862, reports in its “Church Directory”: St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church-Bedford Ave-Rev. Jim Coyle, 19 businesses, private apartments, and a large attic. 16 Pastor. Services, 8am. Apparently construction on the Chapel had not been completed in 1861 but sometime 17 after July 3 and before Sept. 25, 1862. The building has no corner stone. 4 The First Reformed Church of Fishkill, 1153 Main St. The Davies Building, 1064 Main St., Fishkill Founded in 1716 by a Dutch Reformed congregation, and Dutchess County’s oldest continuing This brick building has played many roles in the village’s history. Besides being the town congregation, the First Reformed Church holds a distinguished place in the Fishkill community. Blodgett Memorial Washington’s Sword, Library, 37 Broad Rte 52 & Rte 84, hall from 1945 to 1989, it has been The National Bank. Herman Dean , editor of the Fishkill United Methodist Church , 38 Broad Street, Fishkill Prior to construction of the building from 1725 to 1732, services were held in people’s homes Fishkill Weekly Times, had a dry goods store on the first floor following the Bank’s failure. We are a community of Christian believers whose purpose is to make disciples of Jesus and barns, and conducted in the Dutch language. Within its walls the Church has hosted: the Street, Fishkill Fishkill The upper floor was a residential apartment which later was used as VFW headquarters. Christ by proclaiming the loving message of God locally and globally, as we care for Provincial Congress (making Fishkill briefly the temporary capital of New York State) including Founded in 1934 George Washington wrote on It is interesting to note that Herman Dean rode a high-wheel bicycle, the equivalent of and nurture each other through prayer, worship, study and fellowship. The first John Jay, Philip Livingston and Lewis Morris , two signers of the Declaration of 3 August 4, 1778 from what a fancy sport car would be today. Every Sunday afternoon he could be seen Methodist sermon was preached in the streets of Fishkill in 1794. In 1829, a Methodist Independence; Robert Livingston who helped draft the Declaration and would later administer headquarters at White Plains pedaling down the Albany Post Road (Rte 9) with a box of candy under his arm to court a class was organized, with meetings in private homes and in the village schoolhouse. the presidential oath of office to George Washington . It was used during the Revolution as a to Major Caleb Gibbs , known local lady who lived on the farm where the Holiday Inn is today. A new owner, Kenneth Davies, purchased the The cornerstone of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Fishkill Village was laid on Oct. military prison. The church was enlarged and remodeled between 1785 and 1795; a second as the chief scavenger for the headquarters, “also some things which I should need be glad to property and remodeled the interior. Walls are eighteen inches thick. The mansard roof was added in the l870s. 17, 1838. The building was dedicated on Dec. 23, 1841. A three-story addition was story and balconies were added. Stroll through the churchyard and read inscriptions on the ancient stones. procure for my own use...among which I find myself in want of a genteel cutting sword...” John Iron shutters dating to bank days remain on the outside as an architectural feature. constructed in 1956. The earliest known stone is dated 1737. Bailey a cutler from New York fled to Fishkill May 14, 1778 when the British came to occupy New 5 2 18 York. He set up his business near a stream that is now known as Forge Brook . The sword carries a maker’s mark on the throat of the scabbard, “J. Bailey, Fishkill”. The Bailey sword has been in the Smithsonian Institute since 1843. When the war was over Bailey returned to New York, and when Daniel Nimham Monument, Jct 82/52, Brinckerhoffville Historic Bicycle Tour of Olde Fishkill he died was buried at St. Paul’s Church in lower Manhattan. Chief Daniel Nimham was the most prominent Native American of his time; the last 16 sachem (chief) of the Wappine (Wappinger Indians), the native Americans of this area on the east side of the Hudson River. Son of Chief Abraham Nimham , Daniel was close friends with Derek Brinckerhoff , (mentoring him when the Revolution Van Wyck Homestead, 504 Route 9, Fishkill began), and Catharyna Brett , and may have learned English from Madam Brett Built in 1732 by Cornelius Van Wyck as a small one room house, very likely with a while his people were invited to stay on her land after it was sold. Wappine joined sleeping loft, he added to the house ca. 1755 six years before his death. His wife the patriots in the fight against England and served the patriot cause from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania Hannah Thorne was left the right to live in the west parlor with her female slave. during the war. His people served under Washington and La Fayette at varying times. In 1778 a band of His grandson, Isaac Van Wyck , took over the house and was here during the seventeen Stockbridge soldiers were killed in an ambush by British and Hessian soldiers in Kingsbridge after Revolution. It remained in the family through five generations until about 1882 with crossing the British lines in the place where Van Cortlandt Park is today. That area was the property of the the death of Sydney Van Wyck who had been a prominent farmer bringing grape DeVoe family. Nimham died at the site together with his son and sixteen other compatriots. culture to the area. The house passed into the Hustis and Snook families (allied by 26 marriage), who farmed the land but gave up when US Rte 9 was constantly widened and I84 came into being threatening the demise of the house.
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