Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook Subject Index 1914-2019 / Volumes 1-98 Subject Headings Agriculture………………………….1-3 Hudson River………………………..45-46 Architecture……………………..….3 Land Patents & Early Settlements...46-48 Associations…………………………3-7 Maps…………………………………48-49 Bible Records and Genealogy……...7-12 Mills (see Bridges and Mills) Biography………………………......12-28 Miscellaneous………………………..49-56 Bridges and Mills…………………..28-29 Museums…………………………….56 Businesses…………………………..29-31 Names, Geographical……………….57 Cemeteries………………………….31-32 Native Americans (see Ethnic Groups) Civil Administration…………….....32-33 Persons of Color (see Ethnic Groups) Civil War…………………………....33-34 Politics……………………………….57-58 Country Seats, Homesteads, and Poughkeepsie………………………..58-61 Other Houses……………….34-37 Religion……………………………...61-63 Cultural Life………………………..37-39 Revolutionary Era DCHS Membership Lists……….....39 (see also Biography)…………64-66 Early Settlements (see Land Patents) Sports………………………………...66-67 Education………………………...…40-41 Towns………………………………...67-70 Ethnic Groups…………………...…41-44 Transportation………………………70-71 Health…………………………...…..44-45 Veterans…...………………………....71-72 Agriculture Title Year Vol. Pages The Story of Hyde Park, Its Connection with the Medical Profession and the Science of Horticulture [photo] 1928 13 26-29 The Dutchess County Agricultural Society (formed in 1806) 1928 13 54-63 The Stone Barn at Pleasant Valley [photo] 1931 16 19-20 Farm-Life in the Hudson Valley, 1769-1779 1933 18 41-53 Henry Winthrop Sargent and the Early History of Landscape Gardening and Ornamental Horticulture in Dutchess County, New York 1937 22 36-70 Appendix I: A Dutchess County Gardener’s Diary 1829-1866 1937 22 63-66 Appendix II: Early Dutchess County Nurseries 1937 22 66-68 Appendix III: Authorities (additional reference books) 1937 22 68-70 Two New Books about Dutchess County (review of a book on plant life) 1938 23 23 Title Year Vol. Pages Sheep-Raising in Dutchess County 1941 26 71-72 Agriculture in the Town of Red Hook, Dutchess County 1941 26 101-114 Some of the Members of the Dutchess County Agricultural Society in 1853 1942 27 55-57 Diary of Farming Affairs, Weather Etc. of Alexander Hamilton Coffin (1851-1862) (location – Union Vale area) 1943 28 43-56 My Heart Goes Home, Part II (Thomas Lossing) 1947 32 63-73 Stony Kill Farm 1954 39 25-26 Dutchess County Cattle Show and Fair of 1820 1962 47 39-43 Some Highlights on the History of Horticulture in Dutchess County 1968 53 27-30 The Drovers (cattle buyers, prior to 1900) 1968 53 55-56 The Stone Barn at Pleasant Valley (farm) [photo] 1971 56 79-81 Sweet Violets 1972 57 58-60 Testing Cows 1972 57 70 The Winter of a Hill Farm [illus] 1972 57 143-144 The Barn Museum at Millbrook Pheasant Farm [photos] 1973 58 74-81 Century Farms in Dutchess County as of 1972 [photos] 1973 58 92-124 Backbone of Farm Fare for Years Was Hog Meat 1975 60 68-69 Happy Days in Deep Hollow (Cold Springs Farm) 1976-77 61/62 115-119 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Dutchess County Farmer [photo] [map] 1982 67 4-23 The Washington Hollow Fair (Dutchess County Agricultural Society) 1982 67 107-109 The Dutchess County Fair 1841-1844 [photo] 1984 69 84-97 The Forest Plantations of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York [photo] [map] 1985 70 95-107 The Violet Craze in Dutchess County [photo] 1986 71 13-19 Innisfree Garden and the Astonishing Connection between Two Twentieth-Century American Lumber Heirs and an Eighth-Century Chinese Painter-Poet [photos] [illus] 2011 90 3-24 Peach Hill: A Public Park on Poughkeepsie’s Summit [photos] [illus] 2011 90 99-108 Jim and Joan Smith of Quaker Lane Farms, Hyde Park, New York [photos] 2012 91 137-148 Memoir of Charles F. Beck Sr., Immigrant Farmer (1887-1962) [photos] 2012 91 149-168 A Farmer’s Almanac: The Journal of Benjamin J. Hall [photos] [illus] 2012 91 169-176 “Apples, Apples, Try Them, Buy Them”: The Hart- Hubbard Collection at the Dutchess County Historical Society [photos] [illus] 2013 92 69-78 2 Title Year Vol. Pages Doris and Ralph Adams of Adams Fairacre Farms, With Their Daughter Anabel Adams [photos] 2013 92 81-100 Ed Fitchett of Fitchett Brothers Dairy [photos] [illus] 2013 92 101-113 Law, Politics, and an Ordinary Farmer of Dutchess County 2013 92 115-117 The Passing Scene: Rose Hill Farm, Red Hook’s Oldest Family Business [photos] 2014 93 141-144 A History of the Battenfeld Family and Battenfeld Farm from 1914 to 2014 [photos] 2014 93 149-153 The Hermans Family of Northern Dutchess County – Farm- ing, Insurance, and Books (Oblong Books) [photos] 2014 93 155-157 The Hart-Hubbard Farm Records Collection (apple orchard) [photos] [illus] 2015 94 123-130 The Union Troops Get Milk – from Wassaic, NY [photos] [illus] 2016 95 91-100 Dutchess County, New York and Beaufort County, North Carolina during the Civil War [charts] 2016 95 101-106 Architecture “Fowler’s Folly,” and Its Builder (The Octagon House) 1948 33 50-82 [illus] John Russell Comstock, and His Octagon (located between Millbrook and Mabbettsville) 1948 33 83-86 The Federal Period in Dutchess County 1789-1825, Back- ground and Architecture 1966 51 43-49 A History of Garfield Place, Poughkeepsie [photos] 1972 57 136-141 Garfield Place Day: Victorian Ambiance Revived [photos] [illus] 1973 58 50-57 Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, FDR, and Hudson Valley Architecture [photos] [illus] 1983 68 4-15 Main Building, Vassar College: A National Historic Landmark [illus] 1986 71 35-38 Poughkeepsie’s Architectural Styles 1835-1940 – Anarchy or Decorum? [photos] [illus] 1987 72 18-55 Getting to “The Point” – Design No. 26: The L.M. Hoyt House at Staatsburg [photos] [illus] 2009 88 43-52 Associations Dutchess County Historical Society–First Annual Meeting [photo – inside cover] 1914-15 1 5-13 DCHS Mid-Summer Pilgrimage (Fishkill) [photos] [illus] 1916-18 3 8-22 DCHS Second Historical Pilgrimage (northwest Dutchess) [photos] 1918 4 7-29 3 Title Year Vol. Pages Co-operation of Dutchess County Society 1919 5 47-48 DCHS Third Historical Pilgrimage (eastern Dutchess) [photo] 1921 6 10-25 DCHS Fourth Historical Pilgrimage (northeast Dutchess) 1922 7 14-33 DCHS 5 th Annual Pilgrimage (Putnam County) [photos] 1923 8 5-8 DCHS 6 th Annual Fall Pilgrimage (New Paltz) 1924 9 16-27 DCHS 7 th Annual Fall Pilgrimage (homes of Robert ’s six daughters) 1925 10 13-17 DCHS 8 th Annual Pilgrimage (Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Fishkill Plains) 1926 11 7, 14-16 DCHS 9 th Annual Pilgrimage (Pleasant Valley to Amenia) 1927 12 7, 19-27 DCHS 10 th Annual Pilgrimage (Hyde Park & Pine Plains) [photos] 1927 12 28-29 DCHS 11 th Annual Pilgrimage (Hyde Park to Staatsburgh) [photos] 1928 13 25-39 The Dutchess County Agricultural Society (formed in 1806) 1928 13 54-63 DCHS 12 th Annual Pilgrimage (three Richard Montgomery/ Janet Livingston homes) [photos] 1929 14 21-31 DCHS 13 th Annual Pilgrimage 1930 15 17-26 DCHS 14 th Annual Pilgrimage (Columbia County) 1931 16 17-18 DCHS 15 th Annual Pilgrimage 1932 17 19-55 DCHS Sixteenth Annual Pilgrimage (Orange County) 1933 18 15-21 Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of the Dutchess County 1933 18 22-24 DCHS 17 th Annual Pilgrimage (Ulster County) 1934 19 17-18 The Dutchess County Historical Society of 1845-1846 1934 19 19-21 DCHS Eighteenth Annual Pilgrimage (Millbrook) [illus] 1935 20 19-47 As to the Intellectual Life of the People of Dutchess County in the 1790’s (The Philographical Society) 1935 20 50-51 DCHS Nineteenth Annual Pilgrimage (northwest Dutchess) 1936 21 16-27; 38-67 DCHS Twentieth Annual Pilgrimage (Beacon) 1937 22 19-21; 36-70 DCHS Twenty-first Annual Pilgrimage (Hyde Park and Montgomery Place) 1938 23 20-22 DCHS Twenty-second Annual Pilgrimage (Columbia County) [photo] 1939 24 20-21 Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birthday of George Clinton 1939 24 47 DCHS Twenty-third Annual Pilgrimage (Greene County and Bronck Homestead) 1940 25 16-24 DCHS Twenty-fourth Annual Pilgrimage (Columbia County) 1941 26 17-41 4 Title Year Vol. Pages The Founding of the Dutchess County Historical Society 1941 26 62-64 Cancellation of the Annual Pilgrimage 1942 27 23 “For the Duration” (cancellation of the Annual Pilgrimage)1942 27 53-54 Some of the Members of the Dutchess County Agricultural Society in 1853 1942 27 55-57 A Message from the State Historian 1944 29 18-19 The Historical Society – Its Relationship to School and Community 1944 29 20-24 DCHS Twenty-sixth Annual Pilgrimage (Glenburn house, near Rhinebeck) 1946 31 28-30 DCHS Twenty-seventh Annual Pilgrimage (Fishkill) 1947 32 19-32 DCHS Twenty-eighth Annual Pilgrimage (Webatuck, Dover Furnace, Dover Plains) 1948 33 27-49 DCHS Twenty-ninth Annual Pilgrimage (churches at New Hackensack, Old Hopewell, Freedom Plains) 1949 34 21-23 DCHS Thirtieth Annual Pilgrimage (Poughquag, Beekman, Union Vale) 1950 35 21-44 DCHS Thirty-first Annual Pilgrimage (Rhinebeck, Rhinecliff, Rokeby) 1951 36 DCHS Thirty-second Annual Pilgrimage (Stanfordville, Pine Plains, Moravian Monument) 1952 37 22-41 DCHS Thirty-Third Annual Pilgrimage (Whaley Lake, Patterson, Quaker Hill) 1953 38 23-25 DCHS Thirty-fourth Annual Pilgrimage (Stony Kill Farm, 1954 39 22-23, Glenham) 25-34 DCHS Thirty-fifth Annual Pilgrimage (Rhinebeck, 1955 40 20-22, Red Hook) 28-52 DCHS Thirty-sixth Annual Pilgrimage (Putnam County) 1956 41 20-21 DCHS Thirty-seventh Annual Pilgrimage (Sharon, CT) 1957 42 20-21 DCHS Thirty-eighth Annual Pilgrimage (IBM – Pough- keepsie, Van Keuren House, Fort Homestead) 1958 43 21-22 DCHS Thirty-ninth Annual Pilgrimage (Van Cortlandt Manor, Boscobel) 1959 44 25-26 The Poughkeepsie Tennis Club – Its First Fifty Years 1959 44 27-53 DCHS Fortieth Annual Pilgrimage (Winegar House, Amenia, Innisfree) 1960 45 25-38 DCHS Forty-first Annual Pilgrimage (East Fishkill) 1961 46 23-28, [photos] 48-51 DCHS Forty-second Annual Pilgrimage (Rhinebeck- Red Hook area) 1962 47 22-31 DCHS Annual Pilgrimage (Orange County) 1964 49 20-23, 39-42 DCHS Annual Pilgrimage (Pine Plains) 1965 50 18-20, 26-27 5 Title Year Vol.