Abraham Lincoln’s First Passage through Hastings

19 Feb 2021

Abraham Lincoln’s First Passage through Hastings

February 19, 2021
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1860s

By Mark Sameth

Abraham Lincoln was here. More precisely, he passed through here. Four times. This winter marks the 160th anniversary of Lincoln’s first passage through – as it was known then – “Hastings-Upon-Hudson,” as President-elect aboard The Inaugural Express a little after 2:30 PM on the afternoon […]

06 Oct 2020

Uniontown: The American Dream in Hastings

October 6, 2020
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1800s, 1900s, Uniontown

First conceived in the 1830s, Uniontown is the oldest neighborhood in Hastings outside of the original downtown.

02 Sep 2020

Firemen’s Bazaar (of Yesteryear)

September 2, 2020
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1950s, 1960s, Remembrances

For several years in the late 1950s and early 60s, one of the most anticipated summer events in Hastings was the Firemen’s Bazaar.

22 Jun 2020

Hastings’ Hidden Waterway

June 22, 2020
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Nature, Pre-history

Largely invisible today as a result of construction and development over the years, Scheckler’s Brook runs through the heart of Hastings and was a central feature of the village’s landscape and daily life for centuries.

26 Jul 2019

The Evolution of HoH’s Official Seal (No, Not the Animal)

July 26, 2019
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Hastings History

by Natalie Barry

Several months ago, our new mayor Niki Armacost was asked to speak to the 3rd/4th and 5th graders at Hillside and Farragut Middle School, respectively. During the Q&A segment, one child asked whether our village has an official animal. That got Mayor Armacost thinking about […]

01 Jun 2019

Hillside Students as Urban Planners – Visions of Downtown and the Waterfront

June 1, 2019
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Neighborhoods, Waterfront

This past January, Hillside teacher Dianna Clarke invited me to speak to the 2nd grade about Hastings history. I had a great time talking about early industry in the ravine, our waterfront factories, plus sharing “then and now” photos of important buildings from Hastings’ past.

As I was […]

23 Jan 2019

Telephone Booths and Numbers

January 23, 2019
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Hastings History, Reminiscences

In “On This Day in History,” featured in The New York Times, it mentioned that on January 7, 1951, the minimum price of a coin-box telephone call rose to 10 cents from 5 cents in the state of New York.

This made me think about those coin-box telephone booths that were located […]

09 Sep 2018

Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall

September 9, 2018
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1900s, 1910s

One of Hastings’ early shopkeepers, Frederick Breyer, was included in a book recently published by the city archive of Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. The translated title of the book is “Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall: 1600-1914.” For those of you who speak German, we now have a […]

25 Jan 2018

Saving the Community Gardens

January 25, 2018
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1960s, 1970s, Hastings History, Reminiscences

Saving the Community Gardens by Mary Wallis Gutmann (was Whiting in 1968) I’m not very Web-savvy, but every now and then someone who is calls to say, “Mary, listen to what I read on Facebook. . .” This time it was my son, Paul, reporting that Wendy Waczek was writing about […]

16 Feb 2015

Lesser-known trivia and tidbits about Hastings’ famed painter Jasper Francis Cropsey

February 16, 2015
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Hastings History

Artist and Architect The popularity of the Hudson River School came during a time of tension between nature and industry. While Hudson River School painters found their inspiration from the unaltered and natural beauty of the land and the river, life along the Hudson was changing. The Hudson River Valley […]