FISHKILL LANDING  , or FISHKILL-ON-THE-

HUDSON, a village of Fishkill township, Dutchess county, New York, U.S.A., about 58 M . N. of New York City, on the E. bank of the Hudson river, opposite Newburgh . Pop . (1890) 3617; (1900) 3673, of whom 540 were foreign-born; (1905) 3939; (1910) 3902, of Fishkill township (1890) 11,840; (1900) 13,016; (1905) 13,183; (1910) 13,858 . In the township are also the villages of Matteawan (q.v.), Fishkill and Glenham . Fishkill Landing is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways; by railway ferry and passenger ferries to Newburgh, connecting with the West Shore railway; by river steamboats and by electric railway to Matteawan . Four miles farther N. on Fishkill Creek is the village of Fishkill (incorporated in 1899), pop . (1905) 579 . In this village are two notable old churches, Trinity (1769), and the First Dutch Reformed (1731), in which the New York Provinical Congress met in August and September 1776 . At the old Verplanck mansion in Fishkill Landing the Society of the Cincinnati was organized in 1783 . Among the manufactures of Fishkill Landing are rubber-goods, engines (Corliss) and other machinery, hats, silks, woollens, and brick and tile . The village of Fishkill Landing was incorporated in 1864 .

The first

settlement in the township was made about 1690 . The township of Fishkill was, like Newburgh, an important military post during the War of Independence, and was a supply depot for the northern Continental Army .