Poughkeepsie could be a town within the state of recent York, u. S., that is the county courthouse of Dutchess County. Poughkeepsie is found within the river natural depression midway between big apple town and Albany. The name derives from a word within the Wappinger language, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing, that means “the reed coated lodge by the little-water place,” pertaining to a spring or stream feeding into the river, south of this downtown space.
Poughkeepsie is thought as “The Queen town of the Hudson.” Poughkeepsie is that the largest principal town of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown metropolitan space, which incorporates all of Dutchess and Orange counties. It absolutely was originally settled within the seventeenth century by the Dutch, and have become New York’s second capital shortly once the American Revolutionary War. It absolutely was chartered as a town in 1854. Major bridges within the town embrace the Poughkeepsie Bridge, a former railroad bridge currently serving as a public walk, and therefore the Mid-Hudson Bridge, a serious route in-built 1930 that carries U.S. Route forty four (concurrent with State Route 55) over the Hudson.
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