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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 1, 2019
Caption: Hamlet of Poughkeepsie 1750 Mural (Post Office lobby • 2nd floor • west wall)
Additional Description: (from legend below mural) Hamlet of Poughkeepsie c. 1750. West Wall. Gerald Foster. The panel shows the corner of Market Street (Post Road or King's Highway) and the lane that would eventually become Main Street. The Reformed Dutch Church, to the left, was situated generally in the area that would become New Market Street in the 1920’s. Nearby is a farmhouse that also serves as an inn, a use that often followed in homes built along the few well-traveled roads. The new fieldstone Courthouse, second to occupy the site since Poughkeepsie was made county seat in 1714, stands to the right on Market Street between the road to Union Landing on the river and Filkintown Lane. The artist portrays men and women typical of provincial inhabitants of the era going about their occupations and travelers making a stage stop along the King's Highway. Public notices have been posted outside the stone courthouse for the benefit of those who could read.
Submitted: October 31, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p500514
File Size: 2.709 Megabytes

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