Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

Cagney died at his Dutchess County farm in Stanfordville, New York, on Easter Sunday 1986, of a heart attack.

In 1955, having shot three films, Cagney bought a farm in Stanfordville, Dutchess County, New York, for $ 100, 000.

* Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County

Dutchess County is a county located in the U. S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley.

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

In 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, with Dutchess County being one of them.

Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County.

In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess.

From 1683-1725 most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch.

From 1730 until 1775 New Englanders were the main new settlers in Dutchess County.

In the 1960s G. Gordon Liddy ( who went to prison for crimes committed during the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal and now a talk show host ), was a Dutchess County assistant district attorney when he repeatedly tried to have Timothy Leary arrested on drug charges.

Prior to the 1960s, Dutchess County was primarily agricultural.

Dutchess County is located in southeastern New York State, between the Hudson River on its west and the New York-Connecticut border on its east, about halfway between the cities of Albany and New York.

In 1990 Dutchess County had a population of 259, 462.

The remainder of the county is patrolled by the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office and New York State Police.

In the 2012 House of Representatives election, southwestern Dutchess County is represented by Republican Nan Hayworth.

Western Putnam County is mainly served by hospitals in Dutchess or Westchester counties.

It is bounded on the north by Salisbury, on the east by the Housatonic River, on the south by Kent, and on the west by Dutchess County, New York.

The town is bordered on the west by Columbia County, New York, on a. 5 mile portion of its southern border by Dutchess County, New York, and on the rest of the southern border by Litchfield County, Connecticut.

* The 2006 title of R & B / Hip Hop singer Stacy " Fergie " Ferguson's debut album, The Dutchess ( dutchess is a Middle English spelling of duchess ) was a reference to the fact that the two are associated with the same surname.

The east town line is the border of Massachusetts and Dutchess County, New York.

The south town line is the border of Dutchess County, and the west town line, marked by the Hudson River, is the border of Ulster County.

The south town line is the border of Dutchess County, New York.

Arlington is a community ( and census-designated place ) in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Beekman is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Beekman is located in the southeasten end of Dutchess County, about 60 minutes north of New York City.

Police protection to the Town of Beekman is provided by the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office and New York State Police.

When someone calls 911, the call is routed to the Dutchess 911 center in Poughkeepsie, New York and then police are polled for, and the closest unit responds.

Brinckerhoff is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Clinton is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

The Town of Clinton is in the northwest quadrant of Dutchess County.

When New York Colony established its twelve counties in 1683, the present Putnam County was part of Dutchess County.

The region was part of the Schuyler Patent, a 1788 patent defining some of the towns and villages in Dutchess County and the Poughkeepsie Regional Area.

* Dutchess County Airport ( POU ) – An airport in the northwest part of the town, also known as the Poughkeepsie Airport, for the larger city & town nearby.

* Brookfield – A former hamlet in the western part of Essex settled in 1797 by mostly Morris County, NJ and Dutchess County, NY, farmers and bloomers.

Until 1812 it was part of Dutchess County.

However it was not part of the original manor which was about east in Dutchess and Columbia Counties.

Fishkill is an affluent suburban town in the southwest part of Dutchess County, New York, USA.

Pine Plains is often mistakenly thought to be a part of Columbia County when it is, in fact, part of Dutchess County.

Pleasant Valley is a census-designated place in the southwest part of the town of Pleasant Valley in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

The town is in the northwest part of Dutchess County.

The Town of Rhinebeck in the northwest part of Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley.

The first story ' Dilly Dally and the Dutchess ' was part of the opening broadcast from the new BBC Dundee Studio on August 27, 1949 and Janet Easson regularly broadcast her Nibblers short stories until 1965.

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On June 28, 1775, he was commissioned as a Captain and directed to form a Company from Dutchess County to became a part of Colonel James Clinton's 3rd New York Regiment in the Canadian Campaign.

The former Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway was abandoned from Ancram Lead Mines northeast to Boston Corners in 1925 ; along with the concurrent abandonment of part of the former Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad to the south, the old Poughkeepsie and Connecticut Railroad and Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad was the only remaining route of three from Pine Plains to Connecticut.

At the time of the 1969 merger of the NYNH & H into Penn Central, all that was left of the CNE was the westernmost section, from Maybrook over the Poughkeepsie Bridge and southeast along the Dutchess County Railroad to the former New York and New England Railroad, as well as the easternmost portion, turned into an industrial spur ( the Griffins Secondary Track ) to the northern part of Bloomfield from Hartford.