New Hamburg, New York

New Hamburg is a small hamlet (and census-designated place)[1] along the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Road records of 1770 show that there were shipping facilities in New Hamburg called "Hood Landing".

Brower's customers were local pig iron producers and farmers and builders as far away as New Jersey, supplied by river boat.

Since most of the lumber and log shipments were made by water, Millard's son, Walter, branched out into ship building and freighting.

[2] New Hamburg became a port community on the river, with ships loaded and unloaded along nearby Point Street and then taken to Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls via road.

It is recorded that Father J. Scollon, of St. Mary's in nearby Channingville, being called to High Point, labored unceasingly to relieve the sick and the dying.

An 800-foot (240 m) tunnel was built through a hillside north of town, and the work being done there triggered the development of Main Street as a commercial area.

The river steamer Mary Powell used to stop at New Hamburg in the morning on her way to New York and in the afternoon on the return trip.

[8] In 1925, the Augustinian Friars of Villanova purchased the Untermeyer estate on Wheeler Hill for the Novitiate of Our Mother of the Good Counsel.