The first mill at the site had been built by Mattys Mattysen Van Keuren in 1677.

When Dr. Nachison and fellow Vietnam veteran, Robert Van Keuren created the Stand Down in 1988, " Their basic premise was that this would be a community intervention which encouraged wide participation among service providers, both veteran specific and general, and sought the opinions of homeless veterans themselves to make known what was needed to get them off the streets and reintegrated into the community as productive members.

* Rear Admiral Alexander H. Van Keuren ,-July, 1940 ( Last Chief of BuC & R.

It was established by Matheus Van Keuren in the eighteenth century.

* 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower

* 1967 – Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese doctor and intellectual ( b. 1910 )

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d ' état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor

* 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

* 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress

* 1963 – Peter Van Loan, Canadian politician

* 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

* 1969 – Steve Van Wormer, American actor

* 1960 – Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer

* 1978 – Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer

* 1928 – Bobby Van, American singer ( d. 1980 )

* 1782 – Martin Van Buren, President of the United States ( d. 1862 )

* 2004 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet ( b. 1921 )

* Van Buren Bay – A lakeside hamlet on the shore of Lake Erie on the shore of Van Buren Bay And on NY5.

* Van Buren Point – A lakeside hamlet on the shore of Lake Erie, located on a headland also called Van Buren Point.

* Van Buren Point – A hamlet on the Lake Erie shore in the northeast part of the town, east of Greencrest.

* Van Hornesville – A hamlet in the southwest part of the town.

This hamlet is trisected with the towns of Lysander, Elbridge and Van Buren.

* Van Buren —- The hamlet of Van Buren is in the eastern part of the town near Seneca Knolls.

* Van Fleet – A hamlet south of Freeman on County Road 85.

Other early land patentees were Andrew Gibb ( Islip ( hamlet ), New York ), John Mowbray ( Bay Shore, New York, originally Awixa ), Stephan Van Cortlandt ( Sagtikos Manor ), and Thomas Willets ( West Islip, New York ).

* Jacksonville – A hamlet previously named " Harlows Corners " and " Van Cortland Village ," prior to being renamed after Andrew Jackson.

Hasil was born in 1939 in Van, West Virginia, an unincorporated hamlet southeast from Madison on West Virginia Route 85.

Friendship hamlet is in the center of the town and is next to the Southern Tier Expressway ( Interstate 86 and New York State Route 17 ) and Van Campen Creek.

* Friendship – A hamlet and census-designated place in the center of the town next to the Southern Tier Expressway and Van Campen Creek.

* Van Deusenville – A hamlet near the town line in the southwest part of the town.

At Cayuga Street, NY 414 turns south, crossing the water body that is the canal and the Seneca River and becoming Ovid Street while NY 5 and US 20 turns north onto Cayuga, following the street around the small Van Cleef Lake, through the Finger Lakes Railway grade crossing, and exiting the hamlet.

John's surname, Van Ruusbroec, is not a surname in the modern sense but a toponym that refers to his native hamlet ; modern-day Ruisbroek near Brussels ( compare John of Salisbury or Democritus of Abdera ).

!… Homer was born in the hamlet of Y Van near Caerphili.

Van () is the Anglicised placename for a small hamlet to the north west of Llanidloes in Powys, Mid Wales.

Van Keurens is a hamlet in the town of Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County, New York, United States.