Gus Wagner’s goat cart with Ed Rohrbach at the reins, ca. 1910 By now you will have received your new Hastings Historian with the lead article by Bob Russell on the 1950s Hastings car club called the Driftin’ Shifters. The young mechanics in that club rebuilt and souped up old […]

Children from the New York Orphan Asylum in Hastings-on-Hudson with their donkey cart pulled by “Jack”, the school donkey. (All the pictures in this post are from Dr. Reeder’s 1909 book on the orphanage.) One hundred years ago, in the very southwest corner of Hastings, there was a model orphanage. […]

as reported in the Hastings column of the Dobbs Ferry Register Warburton Avenue, looking north from the bridge. (Click on any photograph for more information.) Counselor Wm. H. Blain of Tower Ridge is spending his vacation in town. Thomas F. Martin [village tax collector] has been enjoying a well-earned vacation […]

The Society’s earliest photograph of a car, probably taken before 1907 (click on any photograph for more information) On Memorial Day of 1896, Hastings residents were thrilled by an event that had, until then, only been witnessed by residents of Paris, London, and Chicago – a horseless carriage race! The […]