Slideshow this Sunday: A Voyage up the Hudson in Historic Photographs

03 Jun 2010

Slideshow this Sunday: A Voyage up the Hudson in Historic Photographs

June 3, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1870s, Society Events

Palisades from Englewood Landing (repairing shad net), ca. 1870
The Historical Society’s annual meetings are important but painless affairs, generally lasting from 5 to 10 minutes. Then we get to sit back and relax and enjoy a great lecture or concert, which is always free and open to the […]

15 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Henry Draper’s Observatory

April 15, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1870s, Collection, Society Events

Save the date! May 22 & 23
Get acquainted with fifteen historic Hastings houses and the celebrities who lived in them. Come to our 2010 house tour and learn more about Civil War Admiral David Farragut, women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger, Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey, African-American sociologist Kenneth […]

16 Mar 2009

Hastings-on-Hudson Becomes an Official Village

March 16, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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In our post for March 12th we showed you our incorporation map, but we didn’t tell you the story behind incorporation. According to the local paper, The Statesman, people in Hastings-on-Hudson had been talking about incorporation since 1875. The place had already been called Hastings-on-Hudson (or a variation on that […]

12 Mar 2009

The First Official Map of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson

March 12, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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For our very first post on this blog, we thought we’d take you back 180 years to 1879, the year when Hastings-on-Hudson was officially recognized by New York State as a “village.” The map you see here is one of the treasures of our collection. It is the survey that […]