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29-579: Rhinebeck may refer to: Rhinebeck (village), New York Rhinebeck (town), New York Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome , a living museum in Red Hook, New York Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad New York State Sheep and Wool Festival , held in Rhinebeck, New York See also [ edit ] Reinbek Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

58-686: A builder. In 1703, the New York colonial assembly approved money for the construction of the King's Highway, later known as the Albany Post Road and today most of Route 9. Three years later Traphagen bought a tract of land in Beekman's patent where the King's Highway intersected the Sepasco Indian Trail, the route today followed by Market Street. He built a house and tavern on the trail a short distance west of

87-461: A native of nearby Hyde Park , would play a role in the town's history during the later years of the Great Depression when he oversaw the design process for the new post office. He had long promoted Dutch-style fieldstone as a material for public buildings in the area, and told the architects to use Henry Beekman's house (burned in a 1910 fire) as their model and some of its remaining stones for

116-519: A petroglyph from local Sepasco or Esopus peoples on the property, serving as a historical reminder of pre-European settlement. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km ), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km ), or 1.31%, is water. Via U.S. Route 9 it is 17 miles (27 km) south to Poughkeepsie , the county seat , 5 miles (8 km) north to Red Hook , and 26 miles (42 km) north to Hudson . Rhinecliff , with its Amtrak station ,

145-549: A trail or tract leading from what is currently White School House Road to what later became the Rock City Community, east of where the village of Rhinebeck is now. A stopping point on the trail must have been a spring located there, that then led to the Landman's Kill stream and followed it to the east, along the north bank. The trail continued to a native village at what is currently known as Lake Sepasco, close in proximity to

174-469: Is 2 miles (3 km) to the west, along the Hudson River . As of the census of 2000, there were 3,077 people, 1,376 households, and 690 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,902.1 inhabitants per square mile (734.4/km ). There were 1,463 housing units at an average density of 904.4 per square mile (349.2/km ). There were 1,376 households, out of which 19.7% had children under

203-468: Is Kingsbridge Avenue. At Kingsbridge the Post Road split with the eastern spur heading to Boston, and the northern branch heading to Albany. The Albany Post Road, still called "Broadway", continues to Van Cortlandt Park , through what was once called the "Vale of Yonkers", and passes Greystone, the former estate of Samuel J. Tilden , now part of Untermyer Park . The village of Ardsley takes its name from

232-543: Is a village in the town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York , United States. The population was 2,657 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie – Newburgh – Middletown , NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York – Newark – Connecticut . The postal ZIP code is 12572. U.S. Route 9 passes through the village. The Sepasco band of Native Americans lived in

261-541: Is within the Rhinebeck Central School District . Albany Post Road The Post Road followed the original Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch , the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at

290-513: The Reformed Dutch Church was built. Its first building was on the site of its current one at Mill and South streets. In 1766 the beginnings of the current Beekman Inn were erected. It has remained in operation as a hotel ever since. In the mid-1770s, a former soldier named Richard Montgomery moved from Knight's Bridge (now the Bronx ) into the Rhinebeck village with his new wife, a member of

319-529: The 1888 Republican ticket. Harrison was visiting him in Rhinebeck later that year when word came to them that they had just been elected. Later, Morton would serve as governor of the state. He died there in 1920 and is buried in Rhinebeck Cemetery. The end of the 19th century saw a new industry center on Rhinebeck: the cultivation of violets . Roughly 20% of the village's population during the Gay Nineties

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348-474: The American Revolution chapter; the street it was on was later named in his honor. After independence from Britain the village continued to grow. The town of Rhinebeck, which contains the village, was organized in 1788. The current Dutch Reformed Church was built in 1802, making it the oldest church in the village. The current route of East Market Street was laid out the same year during construction of

377-591: The Henry Delamater House at 44 Montgomery Street. It still stands today, one of the best examples in the area of the early use of the Gothic Revival style in American residential architecture. By the 1850s, Rhinebeck had grown even further and acquired a reputation as a woodworking center. The town's name on milled products was a symbol of quality, and its furniture was shipped as far away as South Carolina . It

406-479: The King's Highway. This was the beginning of Rhinebeck. A decade later, in 1715, Beekman's son brought in 35 German Palatines who had fled religious persecution at home and had just concluded an attempt to produce naval stores for the British government on the lands of Robert Livingston to the north in what is now Columbia County . The village grew with the new arrivals. New trades established themselves, and in 1733

435-692: The Livingston family. He had just begun to settle into life as a farmer when the American Revolution began. After being elected to the New York Provincial Congress, he was commissioned a general in the Continental Army , and died at the end of 1775 in the Battle of Quebec . Montgomery's cottage still stands, although it was moved to 77 Livingston Street, where it houses the local Daughters of

464-518: The Ulster-Saulsbury Turnpike, later to become Route 308. Rhinebeck continued to attract politicians. George Washington visited in 1796, dining at Bogardus's, the second Traphagen Tavern , when he stayed at a nearby friend's house. During the 1804 gubernatorial election, both Aaron Burr and Morgan Lewis used taverns in Rhinebeck as campaign headquarters. The village was incorporated in 1834. Ten years later, Alexander Jackson Davis built

493-423: The age of 18 living with them, 40.7% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.8% were non-families. 43.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00 and the average family size was 2.78. In the village, the population was spread out, with 18.9% under

522-454: The age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 28.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 47 years. For every 100 women there were 80.6 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there were 70.5 men. The median income for a household in the village was $ 41,639, and the median income for a family was $ 57,000. Males had a median income of $ 46,653 versus $ 40,058 for females. The per capita income for

551-457: The area of today's Rhinebeck at the time white colonists arrived. Sepasco/Sepascot is derived from the word sepuus, which means little river or stream, and refers to the Landman's Kill stream whose cot or coot , meaning mouth, opens onto the southwestern shoreline of present-day Rhinebeck. This was the watershed of the Sepascos. The Sepasco tribe had established a fertile stretch of land as

580-415: The cave later called Welch's Cave. European settlement in the Rhinebeck area dates to 1686, when a group of Dutch crossed the river from Kingston and bought 2,200 acres (890 ha) of land from three members of the local Sepasco tribe. Later, Henry Beekman obtained a patent for the land and saw a need for development to begin. He brought into the area Casper Landsman, a miller, and William Traphagen,

609-690: The estate of Cyrus W. Field , who owned 780 acres (3.2 km2) of land lying between Broadway ( Dobbs Ferry ) and the Sprain Brook ( Greenburgh ) named Ardsley Park. He had named Ardsley Park after the English birthplace of his immigrant ancestor, Zechariah Field (East Ardsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), who immigrated to the U.S. Just north of Washington Irving 's Sunnyside is the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow featured in his " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (1820). Running concurrent with U.S. Route 9,

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638-546: The post office. He spoke at the dedication ceremony and helped lay the cornerstone. The oldest building in the village is the Benner House , built in 1739. The Wilderstein mansion, a current historical site on the Hudson River, features both colonial and archaeological history dating from June 1853. "Wilderstein", named by Thomas Suckley and his wife Catherine Murray Bowne and which translates to "wild man's stone", references

667-530: The same route, starting in Kingsbridge, Bronx and ending at a ferry landing in present-day Rensselaer . It was called the Queen's Road, after Queen Anne . The King's Bridge was built as a toll bridge in 1693, by Frederick Philipse, a wealthy merchant and major landholder in the Bronx and Westchester. The bridge, the first connecting Manhattan with the mainland, spanned the former Spuyten Duyvil Creek at what today

696-521: The southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David Pietersz. de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 ("the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily"). The Dutch named the road " Heerestraat ". In 1669, the provincial government of New York designated a postal route between New York City and Albany , the colony's two most important settlements at

725-458: The time. It was little more than a narrow path in many places, following old trails used by the Wiccoppe and Wappinger tribes. Stagecoaches headed north originally started from Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan ; later the starting point was moved up to Broadway and Twenty-first Street. In 1703, the legislative body provided for the postal road to be a "public and common general highway" along

754-476: The title Rhinebeck . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhinebeck&oldid=875793633 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rhinebeck (village), New York Rhinebeck

783-493: The village was $ 28,773. About 3.4% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line , including 10.7% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those age 65 or over. As of 2017, the residents of Dutchess County were reported as the following: American Indian and Alaska native (.04%), Asian (4%), black or African American (8.5%), Hispanic or Latino (12.5%), native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (.016%), some other race (.35%), two or more races (3%), White (71%). It

812-421: Was in this business in some way, and the total crop was later estimated to have exceeded a million dollars in value some years. Several of the "violet houses" built during this era survive and are located in the district. An 1890 map of the village shows it as nearly coterminous with today's historic district. That area has remained mostly as it was at that time. A third president, Franklin D. Roosevelt , himself

841-635: Was said to have no better in making carriages, coaches and sleighs. Some makers of clothing also achieved national prestige. The area was also acquiring a cachet as a location for the country estates of the Gilded Age wealthy, and those people could frequently be seen in town during the summer and on weekends. In 1885, former congressman and ambassador to France Levi P. Morton settled in Bois Dore on Mill Street. Benjamin Harrison chose him to be his running mate on

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