Hyde Park 17 Acres Possible Subdivision 12538

Hyde Park 17 Acres Possible Subdivision. These great 17 residential acres has a very interesting topography. With 1500 foot depth by 480 feet wide and 215 foot road frontage on a quiet road it can possibly be subdivided. Ideal for your Dream home or family compound.

Hyde Park 17 Acres Possible Subdivision

Hyde Park NY Real Estate includes the towns of East Park, Haviland, the hamlet of Hyde Park and Staatburg. Hyde Park is bordered to the south by the City and Town of Poughkeepsie, to the north by the Town of Rhinebeck, west of the Towns of Clinton and Pleasant Valley and East of the Hudson River. According to the U. S. Census for 2010, the town has a total area of 39.8 square miles and a population of 21,571. The median income for a household is $50,870 and the per capita income for the town is $21,260.

Henry Hudson discovered the river named for him in 1609. This gave access to the lands to be purchased from the Indians by patentees. Settlement of the region officially began around 1742, but may have begun as early as 1710. Dr. John Bard had called his estate “Hyde Park” in honor of Edward Hyde, who was Lord Cornbury and Governor of New York. In 1804 a tavern keeper took the name, “Hyde Park Inn” and then applied for a post office, which was named Hyde Park Post Office. The area slowly started to be commonly called “Hyde Park” and in 1812, the settlement’s name was changed from Stoutenburgh to Hyde Park.

Originally the area was definitely a farming community. Grain was the main crop, which brought the need for mills. There were several kinds of mills on the Crum Elbow Creek: grist, saw, plaster, edge tools, nails and fulling. For some unknown reason about 1914 the sturgeon disappeared. Staatsburg became well know for the ice cutting industry on the river. Huge icehouses were built on the river’s edge and men were employed to cut and store the ice, which was transported by barges to New York and Albany in the spring. The Hyde Park blacksmith invented a liniment “good for man or beast.” This was made in Hyde Park and sold in the leading drugstore in Poughkeepsie.

Hyde Park 17 Acres Possible Subdivision

Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, the Vanderbilt mansion, the Mills Mansion and Val-Kill the home of Eleanor Roosevelt as well as the Culinary Institute of America main campus, a four-year college for culinary and baking and pastry arts, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the first presidential library in the United States.

Although there have been many changes in the area some things remain the same. The milestones suggested by Benjamin Franklin and erected to inform the horse riding postal carriers of mileage can still be seen along the highway. The large sycamore trees along Route 9 have been growing for 250 years and are still majestic and healthy. The original churches still exist. Hyde Park today is a residential community with very little industry, although neighboring municipalities are the home for major companies.