Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley
Subtitle: Stories from the Albany Post Road
By: Carney Rhinevault and Tatiana Rhinevault
Contributors: Rhinevault, Tatiana
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781609494148
Subjects: Local History; Biography; Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: His high mightiness is wearing a dress!; title: Prendergast's army and the wild ride on the Post Road that saved its leader; title: Revolutionary War spies on the Post Road: the British; title: Nathaniel Pendleton: a little-known founding father; title: "Citizen" Genet of East Greenbush; title: War of 1812 cantonment Greenbush; title: The president who wasn't great, just "o.k.": Martin Van Buren of Kinderhook; title: Anti-rent wars in Columbia County, 1751-1852; title: A long night in Poughkeepsie; title: Underground railroad stations along the Post Road; title: Samuel F.B. Morse: painter, inventor, early photographer and political agitator; title: The Smith brothers of Poughkeepsie: their famous cough drops (and beards); title: Gypsies on the post road; title: Young FDR and the gilded age at Hyde Park; title: The rise and fall of Woodcliff Pleasure Park; title: The unsolved murder of surveyor Frank L. Teal; title: The 1963 Poughkeepsie book burning; title: Milestones.