On June 12, 1812, the county of Putnam was established from six Dutchess County towns: Carmel, Kent, Patterson, Philipstown, Putnam Valley and Southeast.

On Feb. 11, 1777, he became one of three members of a Dutchess County, New York commission for " inquiring into, detecting and defeating all conspiracies ... against the liberties of America ;" he served for the next six months administering oaths of allegiance, arresting suspects, informing upon and examining Loyalists.

The act consisted of the band performing their hits, as well as Fergie singing solo tracks from The Dutchess.

With The Black Eyed Peas she enjoyed a series of hits and albums before releasing her debut album The Dutchess, in September 2006, to success.

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.

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

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 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.

Dutchess County has historically leaned Republican due to its affluence and large suburban swaths ; it has voted for Democratic presidential candidates only three times-1964, 1996 and 2008.

It was named for Judge Oakley of Dutchess County, New York, a relative of one of its citizens.

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.

* 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.

There is also a contest to find who the Duke and Dutchess of Ennis will be for the year.

Following the war, Forrestal served as a publicist for the Democratic Party committee in Dutchess County, New York helping politicians from the area win elections at both the state and national level.

In 1683 New York City merchants Frances Rombout and Gulian Verplanck purchased in Dutchess County from the Wappinger Indians for a quantity of goods including rum, powder, and tobacco.

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.

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.

The MTA has the responsibility for developing and implementing a unified mass transportation policy for the New York metropolitan area, including all five boroughs of New York City and the suburban counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester, all of which together are the " Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District ( MCTD )".

He also served for nine years as New York's inspector of prisons and one year as a federal commissioner off loans before finally retiring to his country home in Dutchess County, New York.

The Appalachian Trail Metro-North Railroad station serves campers and hikers destined for the Appalachian Trail in Dutchess County, New York via the Harlem Line.

( People for Animal Welfare ), which is dedicated to raising awareness about the mistreatment of animals in the surrounding community in conjunction with the Dutchess ASPCA.

When the British occupied New York City in 1776, Benson remained in Dutchess County for several years.

The U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: New York ( Manhattan ), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan.

The service is licensed to operate in the 5 counties of New York City, Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York, and in the state of New Jersey for Basic Life Support and Specialty Care Transport.

He is chivalrous, insisting upon switching his good riding horse for the mule of the Dutchess, and refusing to speak vulgarities.

Ferguson scored her fifth consecutive Top 5 hit from The Dutchess after " Clumsy " reached a peak position of number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

Will went on to produce Ferguson's first solo album, The Dutchess, which was released in 2006, before beginning work with Michael Jackson, who had requested Will's expertise for the recording and production of his new album.

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

Based on the Census Ancestry tallies, including people who listed more than one ancestry, Italians were the largest group in Dutchess County with 60, 645.

Almost all elected officials are Republican, but in the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama carried Dutchess with 53 % of the vote.

In the eighteenth century, some of the Mohican developed strong ties with missionaries of the Moravian Church from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who founded a mission at their village of Shekomeko in Dutchess County, New York.

* 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 village is accessible via New York State Route 9G at an intersection with Dutchess County Route 78.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties in New York City ( coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively ), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.

The Dutchess County Sheriff Station is based in Poughkeepsie NY with the Dutchess County Jail being next to it which houses around 275-300 inmates maximum capacity at any time.

On September 26, 2006, Talk To Me: Hits, Rarities & Gems was released by Sony BMG Special Products ( probably to coincide with the release of Fergie's solo album The Dutchess on September 19, 2006 ).

North of the Interstate Highway, the parkway bends to the northwest and starts to assume the character it retains through most of Dutchess County, with a wider, intermittently cleared median and gentler turns ( their radii reaching almost, more than twice that of the widest curve in Putnam County ), taking it through the now lower hills.

Its slow undulation with the landscape continues past the now closed Skidmore Road grade crossing as it heads due north into the town of Pleasant Valley and the less developed half of Dutchess County.

The parkway terrain in Columbia is similar to that in Dutchess, with more views opening up in the north as the road levels out.

Intersections ( as opposed to freeway-style exits ) were numbered sequentially with a single letter prefix indicating the county in which the intersection is located ( Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, or Columbia ).

From Boston Corners to the state line, the R & C obtained trackage rights over the track of the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad, which junctioned with the Connecticut Western and Dutchess and Columbia at the state line.

The Newburg, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad and Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway, acquired by the NYNH & H in 1905 and 1907, were both assigned to the CNE and merged into it June 25, 1907 ( along with the Dutchess County Railroad ).

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.

Starting at the Little Stony Point area along the river, it is Broken slightly by the easement for the New York City water supply system's Catskill Aqueduct, it contains Bull Hill and Breakneck Ridge, with Breakneck Brook between them, then sprawls into Dutchess County, where it includes Pollepel Island, Sugarloaf Mountain, the south summit of Beacon Mountain and Beacon Reservoir, reaching its northern terminus at the Dry Brook trailhead at the end of Pocket Road in the city of Beacon.

A cow at the Dutchess County ( NY ) FairThe animal needs to move with ease and smoothness.

After intersecting with NY 199 at its eastern end, NY 22 and US 44 veer northeast into the small village of Millerton in the northern protrusion of Dutchess County's Oblong, an area once the subject of a boundary dispute between New York and Connecticut in the late 17th century.

He lives in Dutchess County, New York with his wife Sheila Buff, who is herself a writer and whom he met in college.