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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 213 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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POUGHKEEPSIE , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Dutchess county, New See also:

York, U.S.A., and on the See also:

east See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Hudson See also:

RIVER

river, 93 M. N. of New York City. Pop. (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 27,936. It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, the New York, New Haven & See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford, the See also:

West See also:

SHORE

Shore, the Central New See also:

England, and the Poughkeepsie & Eastern (merged in the Central New England) See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by river steamboat lines on the Hudson. A See also:

CANTILEVER (a word of doubtful origin, probably derived from " lever," in its ordinary meaning, and " cant," an angle or edge, or else from modern Lat. quanta libra, of what weight)

cantilever railway See also:

BRIDGE

bridge, 226o ft. See also:

long (6767 ft., including approaches) and 200 ft. above the See also:

WATER

water, spans the Hudson at this point. The city is built partly on terraces rising 200 ft. above the river and partly on a level See also:

plateau above. On the Hudson here is the course for the inter-collegiate See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat-races in which the See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college crews (See also:

SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save those of Yale and Harvard, which See also:

ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row on the See also:

THAMES

Thames at New See also:

LONDON

London) have rowed annually, beginning in 1895, except in 1896, when the See also:

RACE

race was rowed at See also:

SARATOGA, BATTLES OF

Saratoga. In the See also:

north-eastern See also:

PART

part of the city is College See also:

Hill See also:

Park, and in the centre is Eastman Park (11 acres, originally the See also:

home of See also:

Harvey Gridley Eastman). Vassar College (q.v.), one of the most famous See also:

WOMEN

women's colleges in See also:

AMERICA

America, occupies extensive grounds a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance east of the city. Other educational institutions are the Lyndon See also:

Hall School (1848) for girls, See also:

Putnam Hall (for girls), St Faith's School (See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal; removed in 1904 from Saratoga Springs, where it was founded in 189o), Riverview Military See also:

Academy (1836), and Eastman Business College, one of the largest commercial See also:

SCHOOLS

schools in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, founded in 1859 by Harvey Gridley Eastman (1832–1878). Immediately north of Poughkeepsie is the Hudson River See also:

State See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital for the Insane (1871); in the city are the Vassar See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

Brothers' Hospital (1878), with which a nurses' training school is connected; the Vassar Brothers' Home (1881) for aged and infirm men; the Poughkeepsie See also:

ORPHAN

Orphan See also:

House and Home for the Friendless (1847); the Old Ladies' Home (1870); the See also:

PRINGLE, SIR JOHN (1707–1782)

Pringle Memorial Home (1899), for aged and indigent men, and the Adriance Memorial Library (45,000 volumes in 1909).

The city is a manufacturing centre of considerable importance; the factory products in 1905 were valued at $7,206,914, an increase of 29.2 % over 1900. Poughkeepsie was settled by the Dutch about 1698, taking its name from an See also:

INDIAN

Indian word " Apokeepsing," or " Pooghkepesingh," which seems to have been the name of a See also:

WATERFALL

waterfall on the river front. The New York legislature met in Poughkeepsie in 1778, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1788 and 1795, and here in 1788 met the See also:

convention which ratified for New York the Federal constitution (See also:

JULY

July 28). Poughkeepsie was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1799 and was chartered as a city in 1854.

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