America Illustrated1877
Poughkeepsie is one of the most beautiful and thriving cities
in the State. It is charmingly situated on the eastern bank of
The HudsonRiver, on a high level plateau overlooking the country
along the river from the Catskills to the Highlands, and has a
population of twenty-five thousand inhabitants, among whom are
a large number of distinguished professional and literary gentlemen
and many eminent retired merchants. It was first settled by the
Dutch toward the close of the seventeenth century. The building
erected by Baltus Van Kleek, in the year 1705, remained standing
until 1835. Poughkeepsie is famous for her schools, having eighteen
private institutions of learning. Among these are the celebrated
Vassar Female College and the Eastman Business College. The Great
Bridge to span the river here for a direct East and West Railroad
line will be a magnificent structure. To the enterprise and foresight
of Mr. EASTMAN is due the inception of
the bridge idea. When this great work of internal improvement
is finished, a complete revolution will be effected in the transportation
of the products of the great manufacturing centres of the East
and the mineral regions of Pennsylvania. Those can be exchanged
without the necessity of the roundabout and expensive journey
by way of New York.
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