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1658: Peter Stuyvesant commissions a protective stockade around Esopus. 1661: Esopus undergoes a renaming to become Wiltwyck. 1669: English forces annex Wiltwyck, rebranding it as Kingston.
- The Stockade Historic District
- The Rondout Historic District
- Mid-Town Kingston
Fred J. Johnston Museum The Friends of Historic Kingstongive walking tours of this area, known as the Stockade Historic District, the largest intact early Dutch settlement in New York State. Highlights include The Ulster County Courthouse, where Sojourner Truth successfully sued to regain her son who had been sold a slave to a Southern slaveowner. ...
Moving forward in time and further south geographically, the Rondout Historic District showcases the industrial fervor of Kingston around the Rondout Creek, which leads out to the Hudson River. The first company to arrive was the Cornell Steamboat Company, founded by Thomas Cornell, and part of the once-thriving steamboat business along the Hudson ...
Peace Food Nation on Broadway in Mid-Town The most exciting development area of Kingston may be Mid-Town, an area with Victorian houses and main commercial area just starting its economic recovery. It may also be the area closest to the Brooklyn of yesteryear – where affordable, industrial spaces were turned into meccas for artists and entrepreneur...
Feb 22, 2023 · Accurate descriptions of Kingston’s original stockade, built between 1658 and 1677, have eluded historians for centuries. And no wonder. The original “Miller map” of the area went to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after its creator’s ship was attacked by French privateers.
The Old Dutch Church, officially known as the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, is located on Wall Street in Kingston, New York, United States. Formally organized in 1659, it is one of the oldest continuously existing congregations in the country. Its current building, the fifth, is an 1852 structure by Minard Lafever that was ...
In 1658, to protect his constituents from Native American raids, Director-General of the “New Netherlands” colony, Peter Stuyvesant, demanded that all 6o or so residents who lived along the Hudson River move 1 ½ miles uphill to a defensible point.
Nov 7, 2010 · Kingston's oldest residential area retains the street grid drawn by Peter Stuyvesant in the 1658.
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Mar 30, 2017 · Skirmishes between the Dutch settlers and the native Esopus tribe prompted the governor of New Netherland, Pieter Stuyvesant, to construct a stockade around the cluster of buildings overlooking the Esopus Creek in 1658.
