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Historic Sites Attractions In Wappingers Falls

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Adams Fairacre Farms

Bowdoin Park

Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center

Dutchess Stadium

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park

Woodbury Common Premium Outlets

Bushkill Falls

Norman Rockwell Museum

Wappingers Falls is a village in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 5,522. The community was named for the cascade in Wappinger Creek. A portion of the village is in the town of Wappinger, and the other part is in the town of Poughkeepsie, with Wappinger Creek forming the dividing line between the towns. Wappingers Falls holds claim to New York State's sixth oldest library, the Grinnell Library.
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Historic Sites Attractions In Wappingers Falls

1. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Hyde Park
The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site preserves the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York. Springwood was the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The National Historic Site was established in 1945.
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Top 10. Best Tourist Attractions in Poughkeepsie - New York

Top 10. Best Tourist Attractions in Poughkeepsie - New York: Walkway Over the Hudson, Locust Grove Estate, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Vassar College, Bardavon Opera House, Marist College, Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, The Poughkeepsie Post Office, Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, The Waterfront

Top 10 Hidden Gems in Dutchess County

Driving through Mid-Hudson Bridge to Main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA (2019)

Poughkeepsie (/pəˈkɪpsi/ pə-KIP-see), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie, is a city in the state of New York, United States, which is the county seat of Dutchess County. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 32,736.[4] Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson Valley midway between New York City and Albany, and is part of the New York metropolitan area.[5][6] The name derives from a word in the Wappinger language, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing,[7] meaning the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place, referring to a spring or stream feeding into the Hudson River south of the present downtown area.[8]

Poughkeepsie is known as The Queen City of the Hudson. It was settled in the 17th century by the Dutch and became New York's second capital shortly after the American Revolution. It was chartered as a city in 1854. Major bridges in the city include the Walkway over the Hudson, a former railroad bridge (originally called the Poughkeepsie Bridge) which re-opened as a public walkway on October 3, 2009; and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge, a major thoroughfare built in 1930 that carries U.S. Route 44 (concurrent with State Route 55) over the Hudson. The city of Poughkeepsie lies in New York's 18th congressional district.

Mid-Hudson Bridge

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge is a toll suspension bridge which carries US 44 and NY 55 across the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland in the state of New York. Governor and local resident Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor attended the opening ceremony on August 25, 1930. The bridge was renamed the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge in 1994 though the span is rarely referred to by its official name.

The bridge is 3,000 feet (910 m) long with a clearance of 135 feet (41 m) above the Hudson. At opening, it was the sixth-longest suspension bridge in the world. The chief engineer was Polish immigrant Ralph Modjeski, who had previously engineered the strengthening of the nearby Poughkeepsie Railroad bridge. Primary contractor was the American Bridge Company of Ambridge, Pennsylvania with steel from Carnegie. The span is unusual in that stiffening trusses were intentionally constructed on top of, not below, the deck.

Main Street Poughkeepsie, NY

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Poughkeepsie Waterfront

Aerial view of the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, NY at at sunset

New York City Skyline from Castle Point on Hudson

New York City Skyline from Castle Point on Hudson

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