Philipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow, NY

From their website, “Philipsburg Manor was a thriving farming, milling, and trading center owned by the Philipses, a family of Anglo-Dutch merchants. They rented land to tenant farmers of diverse European backgrounds and relied on a community of 23 enslaved Africans to operate the complex.”

The site includes a 300-year-old manor house, new world Dutch barn, and working gristmill.  There are also several hands-on 18th century activities.

More information: Philipsburg Manor

Location: Google Maps (41.088904, -73.863626)

Dam, LaGrange, NY

This dam is located on Old Manchester Road/Titusville Road in the Town of LaGrange, NY, in an area also known as “Manchester”.  Maps from the 1800s show a mill located on a pond in this location.  According to historic aerial photos, the pond was drained to be back to just a creek in the 1980s.

More information:  Historic aerial photos

Location: Google Maps (41.683184, -73.866793)

Van Kleek-Westervelt Cemetery, LaGrange, NY

This old cemetery is located on Titusville Road in LaGrange, NY near an old farm house; the farm is called the Cornell Farm.  The cemetery may be an old family cemetery for the family(ies) that lived on the farm.  The property card for the parcel says it is a private cemetery of the name Van Kleek-Westervelt; both of these family names are well known in the area.

The 1980s Dutchess County Historic Resource Survey indicates the Cornell Farm was indicated on historic maps from 1867 and 1876 to be owned by someone with the last name Cornell.  This survey also identifies the cemetery as the Westervelt Cemetery.

More information:  Historic Resource Survey map

Location:  Google Maps (41.672450, -73.871750)

Off Track Betting, Poughkeepsie, NY

This building is located at 611 Dutchess Turnpike (Route 44), Poughkeepsie, NY.  This Off Track Betting site was vacant for quite some time.  In 2015 the building was being renovated to become the home of Darkside Records; those photos are from June and October.  The murals that decorated the outside of the building were covered up during the renovation.

Location:  Google Maps (41.696520, -73.892017)

Fort Herkimer Church and Cemetery, Herkimer, NY

This church and cemetery are located along the Mohawk River.  The National Register of Historic Places nomination form states the site is also known as the Reformer Protestant Dutch Church of German Flatts.  According to this website, the church was built in 1753 from limestone mined from the Mohawk River and it is the oldest surviving building in Herkimer County.  It is also the only remaining structure of Fort Herkimer, a Revolutionary War fort.

More information:  National Register form; Some history; Church website

Location: Google Maps (43.018117, -74.954142)

Erie Canal Lock 18, Herkimer, NY

These are photos of Lock 18 along the Erie Canal.  According to the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report for the site, the lock was built around 1909 and the powerhouse around 1915.  The lock is still operational.

Location: Google Maps (43.01620369, -74.917545182)

More information: Library of Congress website (Historic American Engineering Record)

Torpedo Boat, Poughkeepsie, NY

The USS Blakely and USS Shubrick were Blakely class torpedo boats constructed in 1899. They served in various capacities until 1920 when they were both sold for scrap to U.S. Rail and Salvage Co. in Newburgh, N.Y. The cut off bow of one of these vessels was then used as land fill in Poughkeepsie south of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.  These are photos of the boat.

More information: USS Shubrick, USS Blakely

Location:  Bing Maps (41.690041, -73.938759)

Vanderburgh Burial Ground, Poughkeepsie, NY

This family cemetery is located on Cedar Avenue in Poughkeepsie a little south of the intersection with Hooker Avenue.  It is in front of the Fox Hill Condo complex, between Panorama Blvd and Arnold Blvd on the west side of the road.  There is an entry on the RootsWeb website that digitizes an entry in “Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York” by J. W. Poucher published in 1924, page 238.  Below is the information from the website/publication:

CLASSIFICATION: Family ground.
LOCATION: Southeast of the city of Poughkeepsie, in an orchard near the east fence of the property of the Hudson River Driving Park Association.
CONDITION: Stones fallen and broken.
INSCRIPTIONS: 9 in number. Copied April 25, 1911, by J. W. Poucher, M. D., and Miss Helen W. Reynolds.
REMARKS: Van Der Burgh ground. Before 1800 the Van Der Burghs were large land owners in this neighborhood and on old maps the present Southeast Avenue, Poughkeepsie, was “the road to John Van Der Burgh’s”. John Van Der Burgh’s house is still standing opposite the northeast corner of the Driving Park but made over and modernized. In its first estate it was an attractive eighteenth century farm house with an excellent carved doorway and fanlight. Originally there were a good many stones in the family burial ground which, by vandalism, have been broken and scattered.

1. Burton, Abigail, w. of Stephen, d. 1850, Oct, —-, a. 82 y. 2 m.
2. Burton, Stephen, d. 1842. (Broken stone).
3. Vanderburgh, Abraham, d. 1840, Nov. 23, a. 60 y. 9 d.
4. Vanderburgh, Elizabeth Meserole, w. of Peter, d. 1842, Apr. 24, a. 93-6-7.
5. Vanderburgh, Henry, d. 1821, Nov. 9, in 82d y.
6. Vanderburgh, Maria, w. of Henry P., d. 1823, May 29, a. 28 y. 8 m.
7. Vanderburgh, Peter, d. ——–. (Broken)
8. ————, d. Dec. 15, ——-, a. 81-8-24.
(Broken stone, possibly part of Peter Vanderburgh’s).
9. ————, “March —, a. 75 y. 1 m.” (broken stone).

More information:  RootsWeb entry

Location:  Google Maps (41.681472, -73.903283)