FISHKILL LANDING

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FISHKILL LANDING , or FISHKILL-ON-THE-HUDSON, a

village

VILLAGE

of Fishkill township, Dutchess county, New

York

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YORK, EDMUND OF
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, U.S.A., about 58 M. N. of New

York

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HOUSE
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  Gothic
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OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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City, on the E. bank of the Hudson
river, opposite Newburgh. Pop. (1890) 3617; (1900) 3673,
of whom 540 were foreign-born; (1905) 3939; (1910) 3902,
of Fishkill township (1890) 11,840; (1900) 13,016; (1905)
13,183; (1910) 13,858. In the township are also the villages of Matteawan (q.v.), Fishkill and Glenham. Fishkill Landing is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways; by railway ferry and passenger ferries to Newburgh, connecting with the West Shore railway; by river steamboats and by electric railway to Matteawan. Four miles farther N. on Fishkill Creek is the

village

VILLAGE

of Fishkill (incorporated in 1899), pop. (1905) 579. In this village are two notable old churches, Trinity (1769), and the First Dutch Reformed (1731), in which the New York Provinical Congress met in August and September 1776. At the old Verplanck

mansion

MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

in Fishkill Landing the Society of the Cincinnati was organized in 1783. Among the manufactures of Fishkill Landing are rubber-goods, engines (Corliss) and other machinery, hats, silks, woollens, and brick and tile. The village of Fishkill Landing was incorporated in 1864. The first

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

in the township was made about 1690. The township of Fishkill was, like Newburgh, an important military post during the War of Independence, and was a

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

depot for the northern Continental Army.

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