Explore The Counties
The My Hudson History map consists of ten counties across New York State's Hudson Valley region.
1)
Albany County
Our state's capitol is the northern-most point of the Hudson Valley! Find the Governor's Mansion where FDR lived, enjoy music at the 4th oldest music hall in the U.S., and keep an eye out for the names of famous Revolutionary War heroes in Albany's Rural Cemetery.
2)
Columbia County
Discover the house where then-hero Benedict Arnold recovered from a wound, the first courthouse Alexander Hamilton tried cases, a 120-acre outdoor art museum, and how our 8th U.S. President started the phrase "OK".
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Greene County
This county is where Henry Hudson, the Hudson River's namesake, first arrived in 1609 and met the Catskill Indians. Hike to one of the highest waterfalls in the U.S., dropping 260 feet, believed by the Mohican tribe to be the sacred resting place of their creator.
4)
Rensselaer County
Visit the gravesite of "Uncle Sam", an all-girls school established in 1841 that focused on science, a church that had the nation's first full choir, and RPI, the intellectual home to many early pioneers for women's education.
5)
Ulster County
Discover art that is over 4,000 years old, or find the burial place of George Clinton, who was the Vice President to President Thomas Jefferson and President James Madison. In Kingston, former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth won a legal battle for the return of her five-year-old son from Alabama.
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Dutchess County
Tour UN Diplomat and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's home, and learn about Jane Bolin, the first Black woman to graduate Yale and become a judge. Then stroll through Dia:Beacon, the 34th largest museum in the world; it has more exhibition space than Manhattan’s Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, and Museum of Modern Art combined.
7)
Orange County
This center for military history hosts General George Washington's headquarters, and the West Point Museum, the oldest federal museum, which displays the case of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II.
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Putnam County
Find the route where in 1777, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode her horse 40 miles to warn Washington of a British attack (and unlike Revere, avoided capture), or the site of a bed-and-breakfast farm resort for and owned by African Americans that guests from as far as Texas would come to for recreation.
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Rockland County
Locate the park where President Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed riding horses, or an Underground Railroad marker where Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. At Piermont Pier, find out who the last President was to not be a Democrat or Republican.
10)
Westchester County
Visit the site where President Lincoln delivered a speech on his way to his presidential inauguration, tour the home of the first female self-made billionaire, and learn about the rich cultures of Indigenous tribes traced as far back as 7,000 years!