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47-604: Snowden was born in Peekskill, New York . He was appointed a Cadet Midshipman on June 25, 1875, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1879. He served in USS Vandalia (1876) , USS Standish (1864) , USS Monongahela (1862) , USS Dolphin (PG-24) , and USS Constellation (1854) . Snowden was assigned to the Hydrographic Office , U.S. Naval Observatory , U.S. Naval Academy , Naval War College , and

94-532: A conglomeration of local papers throughout Westchester County. But the Journal News focused more on statewide and New York City issues, which led to the founding of the Peekskill Herald in 1986. Although numerous prominent citizens came together to try to keep the paper afloat after a series of New York Times articles about the paper's foundering fiscal situation, it folded in 2005, replaced by

141-663: A crowd of around 20,000, and two men with rifles were discovered and removed before any violence during the concert. It was one of the earliest performances of Pete Seeger 's " If I Had a Hammer "; Robeson sang surrounded by union guards and volunteers from the audience as protection against snipers. Afterward, area police and state troopers directed exiting traffic down a single road into an ambush where rocks were thrown through car windows (even at cars with small children). Some were overturned and their occupants beaten without police intervention. These Peekskill Riots were subsequently well-publicized in news reports and folk songs and formed

188-484: A fictional all-girls' boarding school in Peekskill, Eastland School for Girls (inspired by a now-defunct all-girls school that still overlooks the city) and similarly fictional Langley College. Halve Maen (ship) Halve Maen ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɦɑlvə ˈmaːn] ; transl.  "Half Moon" ) was a Dutch East India Company jacht (similar to a carrack ) that sailed into what

235-451: A household in the city was $ 47,177, and the median income for a family was $ 52,645. Males had a median income of $ 38,091 versus $ 34,757 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 22,595. About 10.3% of families and 13.7% of the population were below the poverty line. Some local art-related highlights included Paramount Center for the Arts , a restored 1930 movie palace that served as

282-480: A major event in E.L. Doctorow 's historical fiction novel The Book of Daniel . Peekskill was the landing point of a fragment of the Peekskill Meteorite , just before midnight on October 9, 1992. At least 16 people recorded the meteoric trail on film. This was only the fourth meteorite in history for which an exact orbit is known. The rock had a mass of 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) and punched through

329-640: A partnership by his son Edwin and nephew Harold Smith in 1885. The well-publicized Peekskill Riots of 1949 involved attacks and a lynching -in-effigy occasioned by Paul Robeson 's benefit concerts for the Civil Rights Congress , although the main assault following the September concert properly took place in nearby Van Cortlandtville . Nevertheless, the city of Peekskill has since had multiple African American mayors since 1984. In September 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson , captain of

376-741: A summer home for his family. In 1902, the locally prominent McFadden family bought the property. In 1987, the Beecher-McFadden Estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places . In August 1949, following reports misquoting Paul Robeson 's speech to the World Peace Conference in Paris as saying that African Americans would not fight for the United States in any prospective war against

423-534: A turn caused the building to collapse. In 1984, Richard E. Jackson became Peekskill's first African American mayor. Peekskill is located at 41°17′N 73°55′W  /  41.283°N 73.917°W  / 41.283; -73.917 (41.2889, −73.9200) in northwestern Westchester County . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 5.5 square miles (14 km ), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km )

470-624: Is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km ) (20.99%) is water. The city's eastern border is the Town of Cortlandt and its western border is the Hudson River . As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 23,583 people living in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 35.8% White, 21.4% Black, 0.2% Native American, 2.9% Asian, <0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.3% from some other race and 2.5% from two or more races. 36.9% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The American Community Survey in 2020,

517-709: Is now New York Harbor in September 1609. She had a length of 21 metres and was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to covertly find a northern passage to Asia. The ship was captained by Henry Hudson , an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate

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564-789: Is the local school district, covering the entire city, with Peekskill High School the main high school. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York operates Catholic schools in Westchester County. Our Lady of the Assumption School in Peekskill closed in 2013. The closest Catholic school to Peekskill is St. Columbanus School, which is in Cortlandt Manor. Peekskill is served by the Hudson Valley Hospital Center (HVHC), founded in 1889 as Peekskill Hospital on lower South Street. In 2014,

611-592: The Half Moon , anchored along the reach of the Hudson River at Peekskill. His first mate noted in the ship's log that it was a "very pleasant place to build a town". After the establishment of the province of New Netherland , New Amsterdam resident Jan Peeck made the first recorded contact with the Lenape people of this area, then identified as "Sachoes". The date is not certain (possibly early 1640s), but agreements and merchant transactions took place, formalized in

658-664: The Hudson River Chains between Bear Mountain Bridge and Anthony's Nose during the Revolution to prevent British naval passage upriver. Though Peekskill's terrain and mills were beneficial to the Patriot cause, they also made tempting targets for British raids. The most damaging attack took place in early spring of 1777, when an invasion force of a dozen vessels led by a warship and supported by infantry overwhelmed

705-582: The Office of Naval Intelligence . From 1902 to 1905, he served as navigator of USS Illinois (BB-7) and then returned to Naval Intelligence before joining the Bureau of Equipment . Snowden returned to sea in 1908 and commanded USS Mayflower (PY-1) , USS South Carolina (BB-26) , and USS Wyoming (BM-10) . He was promoted to rear admiral in 1917 and, during World War I , served as Commander, Squadron 1 and Division 2, Battleship Force, Atlantic Fleet. Admiral Snowden

752-481: The Peekskill Daily in 2009. The Centennial Firehouse, built in 1890, was under a U.S. Route 9 bridge. During the bridge's original construction in 1932, part of the roof of the firehouse was removed. As part of a 2008 highway reconstruction project it was to be relocated to a new historic district. The city spent $ 150,000 in grant money in preparing the building. Unfortunately a mechanical failure during

799-477: The Soviet Union , a planned benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress in Peekskill was canceled amid White Nationalist and anti-communist violence. An effigy of Robeson was lynched in the town. The artists planned a second concert in nearby Van Cortlandtville on a farm owned by a Holocaust survivor. (His house was subsequently shot into and brickbats thrown through his windows.) The publicity drew

846-637: The 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a second replica. Halve Maen was built on a wharf on Rapenburg . On behalf of the Dutch East India Company, she set sail from the Netherlands on April 6, 1609 under the command of the Englishman Henry Hudson to explore the northwest passage to

893-436: The 400th anniversary of Halve Maen' s voyage. For the anniversary, the crown prince of the Netherlands and his wife were on board, as well as students from a Dutch school. This anniversary was marked in September 2009 with festivals, music, sailing ships parading around New York Harbor. A non-for-profit organization, Half Moon is run by a crew of volunteers that range in age from their teens to octogenarians. In April 2015

940-573: The American defenders. On leaving New Windsor in June 1781, Washington briefly established his quarters at Peekskill. Peekskill's first legal incorporation of 1816 was reactivated in 1826 when Village elections took place. The Village was further incorporated within the Town of Cortlandt in 1849 and remained so until separating as a city in 1940. In 1859, Henry Ward Beecher bought a 36-acre farm at Peekskill. He made many improvements and established

987-535: The Atlantic to England where he sailed into Dartmouth harbor with the Dutch East India Company ship and crew. In 1618, or a few years after, the ship was destroyed during an English attack on Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies. In 1909 a replica of Halve Maen was given to the United States by the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage. The ship

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1034-807: The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, has a 12,000-foot exhibition space and an artist-in-residence program. Locally owned WLNA 1420 AM has served the community since 1948. The town has several parks and recreation areas, including Charles Point, with bay and river views; Depew Park, which has pools and a pond in addition to ballfields and trails and is the home of the Recreation Department headquarters; Franklin Park; Lepore Park; Fort Hill Park; Peekskill Dog Park; Peekskill Stadium; Riverfront Green Park; and Tompkins Park (home of Little League). The Peekskill City School District

1081-527: The Pacific this way, he returned to the Netherlands. In his 1625 book New World , which contains invaluable extracts from Hudson's lost journal, Johannes de Laet , a director of the West India Company , writes that they "bent their course to the south until, running south-southwest and southwest by south, they again made land in latitude 41° 43’, which they supposed to be an island, and gave it

1128-656: The Pacific. After a severe storm in ice and snow in the North Cape, the expedition finally reached the Newfoundland Bank and what is now Canada. From Cape Sable , Hudson followed the eastern American coast south to the Delaware River , past Manhattan and Long Island. In the summer of 1609, Hudson sailed the Hudson River named after him to what is now Albany. Since Hudson could not find a passage to

1175-665: The Ryck's Patent Deed of April 21, 1685. Peekskill derives from a combination of Peeck's surname and the Dutch word for stream, kil or kill . Not much is currently known about the village of the Sachoes or their origin. It was suggested by city historian Charles Arthur Clark that the grove of tall pine trees that the Sachoes lived amongst were "not a native of this region, so it is believed that Indians must have brought them from somewhere, and planted them. The same may be believed about

1222-573: The United States Navy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peekskill, New York Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York , United States, 35 miles (56 km) north of New York City . Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River , across from Jones Point in Rockland County . The population

1269-651: The area's cultural hub, offering music, comedy, drama and independent films before suspending operations in 2012 and reopening in 2013 as the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater; STUDIO No.9 Gallery and Workshops; and the Peekskill Coffee House, which showcases local acts. The Bean Runner Cafe, on South Division Street, and 12 Grapes, on North Division Street, also showcase local artists and musicians. The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art (Hudson Valley MOCA), formerly known as

1316-407: The city was 13.8% Ecuadorian , 10.4% was Puerto Rican , 4.9% Guatemalan . As of the census of 2000, there were 22,441 people, 8,696 households, and 5,348 families living in the city. The population density was 5,189.7 inhabitants per square mile (2,003.8/km ). There were 9,053 housing units at an average density of 2,093.6 units per square mile (808.3 units/km ). The racial makeup of the city

1363-520: The city's fire department and volunteer ambulance corps. The fire department staffs seven EMTs and eight paramedics whereas the volunteer corps has 60 active riding members. Most patients are transported to NYP-Hudson Valley Hospital. Peekskill train station provides commuter service to New York City , 41 miles (66 km) away via Metro-North Railroad . The Bee-Line Bus System provides bus service to Peekskill on routes 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 31. The Bear Mountain Bridge , five miles (8.0 km) to

1410-488: The cluster of weeping willow trees indicated." The last known Sachem (chief) of the Sachoes at the time of the signing of Ryck's Patent was named Sirham. After trading with Jan Peeck for a considerable amount of the time, the Sachoes began calling the creek where he set up his trading post as "John Peek's Creek" and is likely how the city's name came to be. Some early writings regarding the Natives and Peekskill refer to

1457-487: The first Sachem of Sachoes. This name can be translated "black kettle". After the signing of the patent, portions of then Van Cortlandt Manor, north of Magregories brook remained in its wilderness state and the natives roamed the entire section until approximately 1742. The Sachoe tribe play a prominent role in World's End, a novel by T. C. Boyle which takes place in a fictitious version of Peekskill named Peterskill. On

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1504-414: The hospital began an affiliation with New York-Presbyterian Hospital and is now called New York Presbyterian – Hudson Valley Hospital. The hospital has 128 inpatient beds and includes a comprehensive cancer center, maternity center, neonatal intensive care unit, and surgery center, among other patient care services. The city also has an emergency medical service staffed by EMTs and paramedics from

1551-460: The last Sachem as "Saham." Other names quoted as the locality now known as Peekskill were Sachus, Sackhoes and Sackock. They are equivalents and refer to the outlet of Magregere's Brook and have the same meaning - "at the mouth or outlet of a creek or river." Their territory extended from this brook to Dickey Brook which runs through Depew Park and Blue Mountain Reservation. Sachus is regarded as

1598-625: The name of New Holland, but afterwards discovered that it was Cape Cod". From there they sailed south to the Chesapeake Bay and then went north along the coast navigating first the Delaware Bay and, subsequently, the bay of the river which Hudson named the Mauritius River , for Holland's Lord-Lieutenant Maurits . Halve Maen sailed up Hudson's river as far as Kinderhook, and the ship’s boat with five crew members ventured to

1645-584: The north bank of Annsville Creek as it empties into the Hudson, Fort Independence combined with Forts Montgomery and Clinton to defend the Hudson River Valley. Fort Independence was built in August 1776, while Forts Montgomery and Clinton were started in June. Fort Hill Park, the site of Camp Peekskill, contained five barracks and two redoubts. Settlement was slow in the early 18th century. By

1692-543: The northwest, gives road access to Bear Mountain State Park across the Hudson River , Palisades Interstate Parkway and to the United States Military Academy at West Point via US 6 and US 202 . The Croton Expressway portion of US 9 ends here. NY 9A and NY 35 also run through the city. The 1980s American sitcom The Facts of Life was about teenagers and young women who attend

1739-840: The ship was transported on loan to the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, Netherlands. The replica took part in SAIL Amsterdam 2015. In 2019, the Hoorn Council decided not to renew their lease. Today, Halve Maen is located in the port of Enkhuizen and is open to the public at a permanent mooring. At 10 feet (3.0 m) in both height and length, the model of Halve Maen on top of the SUNY System Administration Building in Albany , New York ,

1786-584: The time of the American Revolution , the tiny community was an important manufacturing center, which made it attractive to the Continental Army , which established an outpost here in 1776. Several creeks and streams powered mills, which provided gunpowder, leather, planks, and flour. Slaughterhouses provided fresh meat, easily shipped from docks along the river. Much was needed to support several other forts and garrisons located to support

1833-543: The trunk of a Peekskill resident's automobile upon impact. The Peekskill Evening Star and the Peekskill Highland Democrat were two of the city's daily newspapers through much of the city's history. The Evening Star published under various mastheads from the 19th century on, and as the Evening Star from 1939 until 1985, when the paper folded into what became the nexus of the Journal News ,

1880-581: The vicinity of present-day Albany, New York , where the crew determined the water was too narrow and too shallow for further progress. Concluding then that the river was also not a passage to the west, Hudson exited the river, naming the natives that dwelled on either side of the Mauritius estuary the Manahata. Leaving the estuary, he sailed north-eastward, never realizing that what are now the islands of Manhattan and Long Island were islands, and crossed

1927-551: Was 25,431 at the 2020 U.S. census , up from 23,583 at the 2010 census . It is the third-largest municipality in northern Westchester County, after Cortlandt and Yorktown . The area was an early American industrial center, primarily for iron plow and stove products. The Binney & Smith Company , now named Crayola LLC and makers of Crayola products, is linked to the Peekskill Chemical Company founded by Joseph Binney at Annsville in 1864, and succeeded by

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1974-560: Was 57.12% White , 25.54% African American , 0.42% Native American , 2.38% Asian , 0.06% Pacific Islander , 9.83% from other races , and 4.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21.92% of the population. There were 8,696 households, out of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.7% were married couples living together, 16.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.5% were non-families. 31.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.8% had someone living alone who

2021-449: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.18. In the city, the population was spread out, with 24.4% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 34.9% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males. The median income for

2068-1239: Was awarded the Navy Cross for his service in World War I. After serving with the Atlantic Fleet until 1919, Snowden was assigned duty as the Military Governor of Santo Domingo with additional duty as Military Representative of the United States in Haiti . Snowden was transferred to the Retired List on August 12, 1921 and died on January 27, 1930. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery , Section 2, Site: 1127. Ricourt, Milagros, 2016 The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying The Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA. Vásquez Frías, Pastor, 2013 ¡Éxodo! Un siglo de migración Haitiana hacia República Dominicana , Editorial Santuario, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. This biographical article related to

2115-770: Was constructed at the Rijksmarinewerf in Amsterdam. The keel was laid on 29 October 1908, and on 15 April 1909 the ship was launched and then transported to the US on the Holland America Lines freight liner Soestdijk in order to attend the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration in New York, arriving in July. She appeared in a parade with the American replica ship Clermont celebrating Robert Fulton . This replica

2162-588: Was eventually towed to Cohoes, New York , and perished in a fire in 1934; the Clermont was broken up for scrap 3 years later. Another replica of Halve Maen (officially Anglicized as Half Moon ) was constructed in Albany, New York, in 1989 by the New Netherland Museum . The museum contracted with Nicholas S. Benton to design and build the replica. Benton, a master ship-rigger and shipwright,

2209-479: Was president of the Rigging Gang of Middletown, Rhode Island, which specialized in colonial ship restoration and design. To prepare for building Half Moon , a $ 1 million project, he visited maritime museums in the Netherlands and the United States. After his death while assisting with the rigging of another vessel, the construction of the Half Moon was completed by the New Netherland Museum, following delays and additional expenses. The year 2009 marked NY400 ,

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