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1783 in the United States

March 15 – Newburgh Conspiracy: A potential uprising in the Continental Army stationed at Newburgh, New York, is defused when George Washington asks the officers to support the supremacy of the United States Congress.

1905 AAA Championship Car season

The 1905 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 11 races, beginning in The Bronx, New York on June 10 and concluding in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29.

America's Critical Period

After the surrender of the British at Yorktown, Washington moved over 11,000 troops to the town of Newburgh in New York.

Amrita Club

The Amrita Club building is located at the southeast corner of Church (US 44/NY 55) and Market streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

Andre Cushing III

Cushing is a Republican State Senator from Maine's 33rd Senate District, representing Carmel, Charleston,Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dixmont, Etna, Exeter, Garland, Glenburn, Hampden, Kenduskeag, Levant, Newburgh, Newport, Plymouth, and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.

Andrew Boris

From 1993-1994, while still in college, Boris hosted a Saturday evening request show from 7pm to Midnight called "The Rock And Roll Roadhouse" on Classic Rock station WPDH in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Arlington Fire

Arlington Fire District - The fire district that provides fire protection to the Town of Poughkeepsie

Beekman, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Bradford Louryk

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and educated at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, he is best known for his collaboratively generated solo performance work, which often incorporates multimedia elements and gender reversal in the exploration of its subject matter.

Carl Edvard Johansson

Ford bought the entire American company, CE Johansson Inc., that he had established 1918 in Poughkeepsie, New York and all the equipment was moved to Dearborn.

Carson Robison

Robison's daughter Patricia was married in October,1950 to Daniel Murphy at Carson's farm/recording studio near Millbrook, N.Y. Robison died in 1957 in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Cornelius H. Evans House

Its architect is unknown, but it shows the influence of James Renwick, who in the years before had pioneered the mansard-roofed buildings that evolved into the Second Empire style with the original Corcoran Gallery in Washington and, closer to Hudson, Main Building at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Culley

F. B. Culley Generating Station, a 369-MWe coal-fired electricity-generating power plant southeast of Newburgh in Warrick County

Delano-Hitch Stadium

Minutes before Newburgh's home opener, league president Bud Harrelson announced the Black Diamonds would return in 1999, but only if the team built a new stadium.

Three professional teams have called Delano-Hitch home: the Newburgh Hummingbirds in 1946, the Newburgh Nighthawks in 1995-96, and the Newburgh Black Diamonds in 1998.

Flisk

Coals have to be brought from Newburgh or Balmerino or the Balbirnie pit; though some use English coal, brought in vessels to the beach.

George Lemuel Dickinson

Dickinson was educated in Ottawa and Poughkeepsie, New York.

Harvey G. Eastman

He moved his school to St. Louis in spring of 1858, but due to unfortunate hiring of abolitionist teachers in pro-slavery Missouri, was forced to move again, ultimately establishing the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 3, 1859.

Henry Van Ingen

Henry Van Ingen (12 November 1833, The Hague - 17 November 1898, Poughkeepsie, New York) was a Dutch painter who for many years taught art at Vassar College in the United States.

Hudson Line

Hudson Subdivision a CSX-owned freight line from Poughkeepsie north to Rensselaer

IBM System/360 Model 40

The IBM System/360 Model 40 was developed and manufactured at IBM's facility in Poughkeepsie, U.S.A.: manufactured in Mainz, Germany; and manufactured in Fujisawa, Japan.

John McNeil Wilmot

He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Major Lemuel Wilmot, commander of a company of the Loyal American Regiment, and Elizabeth Street, a sister of Samuel Street.

Joseph B. Keeler

Keeler later went to Poughkeepsie, New York where he received a Master of Accounts degree from Eastman Business College.

Josiah T. Newcomb

Josiah Turner Newcomb (June 19, 1868 in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Michigan – January 3, 1944 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Juan Williams

Juan graduated in 1972 from Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York where he became clerk of the student body, editor of the student paper and was captain of the baseball, cross-country and championship basketball team.

Kendall Francois

A month later, Poughkeepsie Police made a decision to contact the F.B.I. for help.

Le Neubourg

He gave the manor to his second son Henry de Beaumont (c.1048-1119), who was created 1st Earl of Warwick in 1088 and who adopted for himself and his descendants the surname "de Newburgh", the Anglicised adjectival form of his Norman lordship.

Margaret Cross Norton

She then began her first professional position at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Mothership Connection Newberg Session

It was recorded in Hangar E at Stewart Airfield in Newburgh, New York on September 26, 1976 during the rehearsals for the P-Funk Earth Tour.

New York State Route 113

West of the interchange, NY 113 continues as a local road into the IBM Poughkeepsie main plant.

Newburgh–Beacon Bridge

The original bridge won the 1965 American Institute of Steel Construction "most beautiful bridge" award for long-span bridges.

Newburgh, Aberdeenshire

Near the estuary mouth, the presence of tern colonies is notable, since there are several distinct species that utilise the north banks of the Ythan Estuary, and comprise a meaningful percentage of the breeding pairs of terns in the United Kingdom.

Over Silton Manor

Sir George Wombwell inherited the Newburgh estate and on his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir George Orby Wombwell.

P.O.D.

On July 28, 2008, the group played a free public performance at the Orange County Choppers headquarters in Newburgh, NY, with OCC The Band opening.

Patty Rosborough

In the early 2000s, she and Mark Cooper co-hosted The Coop and Patty Show, a morning radio program on WPDH in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Pennsylvania Route 371

In 1801, the state legislature of New York and Pennsylvania brought up the proposal for the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike (later the Great Bend and Newburgh Turnpike) to connect the Hudson River to the Delaware River.

Peter G. Gyarmati

After their earlier work with Ferranti, then the successor ICL, in Manchester University he joined for research to IBM from 1972 until 1981, working in Poughkeepsie, Yorktown, New York, and the Delft University, the Netherlands.

Poughkeepsie Bridge Route

The Poughkeepsie Bridge Route was a passenger train route from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts, via Baltimore, Maryland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rob Cohen

He was raised and spent his childhood in the Town of Newburgh and graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 1967 (according to an article by Germain Lussier in the Middletown (New York) Times Herald Record, August 3, 2008).

Roger de Beaumont

He was overshadowed by his elder brother, but was granted by his father one of his lesser lordships in Normandy, the lordship of Le Neubourg, about 12 km NE of Beaumont-le-Roger, from which his own family adopted the surname Anglicised to "de Newburgh".

Stewart Airport

Stewart International Airport, near Newburgh, New York, United States (IATA/FAA: SWF)

Stone Mills

Weston Price, a famous dentist, nutritionist, and author from Newburgh.

Timothy Shay Arthur

Born just outside Newburgh, New York, Arthur lived as a child in nearby Fort Montgomery, New York By 1820, Arthur's father, a miller, had relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where Arthur briefly attended local schools.

Tracy L. Gorman

Rev. Gorman has worked at the following churches: First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur, Illinois; Real Life Community Church, Portage, Indiana; Southside Church of the Nazarene, Richmond, Virginia; First Church of the Nazarene, Washington, Pennsylvania; New Life Church, Newburgh, Indiana; and Southside Church of the Nazarene, Muncie, Indiana.

WHVW

Non-music programming on WHVW includes some weekend religious and ethnic programs, a weekly talk show done with the Poughkeepsie Chamber of Commerce, a high school sports program, and a weekly program hosted by Poughkeepsie Journal columnist and former WEOK morning host Larry Hughes.

William Henry Brewer

William H. Brewer was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and grew up on a farm in Enfield, New York.

Woodbury, Orange County, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.


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