Posts tagged as:

dutch

Hudson-Fulton 1909 Celebration Program

Hudson-Fulton 1909 Celebration Program

Celebrations, replicas of the Half Moon sailing into New York Harbor and exhibitions at a gallery.    Henry Hudson, we hardly new you, but he’s all over the news lately.  Truly, even the few portraits we have of the man were commissioned many years after his death. But, New York does like a party.  And [...]

Read the full article →

Hudson Fulton Celebration Postcards

Hudson Fulton 1909 Celebration postcard

In the summer of 2009 Fourth of July spectators marveled at the wonders of pyrotechnics from viewing galleries and apartment buildings up and down the Hudson River. Normally held on the East River, city leaders moved the spectacular display to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage up the North River now bearing [...]

Read the full article →

The Summer of Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

Four hundred years ago Henry Hudson, an English sea captain flying a Dutch flag, departed Amsterdam looking for a northwest passage to the Orient. It would be his third and most important voyage. According to a journal kept by shipmate Robert Juet, Hudson and his crew on the Half Moon sailed into New York Harbor [...]

Read the full article →

Dyckman Farmhouse

1934 image of Inwood's Dyckman Farm House

Built by William Dyckman in approximately 1784, this farmhouse was once the center of a thriving farm more than 250 acres in size. Dyckman Farmhouse, along with the smokehouse and reconstructed “Hessian Hut,” has been a public museum since 1916. Jan Dyckman arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1660s and began acquiring land in northern [...]

Read the full article →

The Naming of Inwood

Ernest Lawson painting of old tulip tree in Inwood, New York.

Believe it or not, our neighborhood was not always called “Inwood.” The name has served the area well for some 160 years, but prior to that much  of Manhattan north of Dyckman was affectionately called “Tubby Hook.”

Read the full article →