Hastings in 1790, The Year of the First Census

08 Apr 2010

Hastings in 1790, The Year of the First Census

April 8, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1700s, Collection

The 1790 census: a page showing the numbers for Yonkers and Greenburgh.
The census you and I have just completed is the twenty-third national population count. Since the Constitution directs that a census be taken every ten years, it does not take very higher math to determine the date […]

28 Sep 2009

Houdon in Hastings: The Life Mask of George Washington

September 28, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1700s, Collection

As soon as we had finished writing the previous week’s post on Jean-Antoine Houdon’s bust of Robert Fulton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we realized that that eminent French sculptor is actually represented in Hastings, in our own collection. In our small but select library, in a glass case, […]

04 May 2009

The 18th-Century Sloop “Nancy”

May 4, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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The “Clearwater” and the “Woody Guthrie,” ca. 1980. The “Clearwater,” birthed in Poughkeepsie, was built in 1969 by Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. as a teaching tool for environmental education.
Here at the Historical Society, it sometimes feels like “history” begins in the 19th century. Aside from a few […]

16 Apr 2009

John P. Davies’ Historical Map of Westchester

April 16, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1700s, 1910s, 1930s, Collection

Every generation of Hastings residents has its history buffs. One such was civil engineer John Percival Davies. Being a mapmaker, Davies came up with the idea of a map that would visually encapsulate the entire history of Westchester County – or at least the period from the arrival of Henry […]