Research Guides @ Fordham: Hudson River: River Towns

Towns Along the Hudson

Kingston: The IBM Years by G. Godwin and R. Panetta
Call Number: F129.K5 F75 (LC)
Delmar, N.Y: Black Dome Press, 2014.
Hudson River Towns: Highlights From the Capital Region to Sleepy Hollow Country / by H. Truesdale; J. Michaels
Call Number: E-book
Albany, N.Y: Excelsior Editions / State University of New York Press, 2011.
Main Street to Mainframes : Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie by H. K. Flad & C. Griffen
Call Number: F129.P9 F53 (RH)
Albany, N.Y: Excelsior Editions, 2009.
The Place Names of Historic Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown by H. Steiner
Call Number: F129.S682 S73 (RH)
Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1998.

Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series has individual volumes devoted to many of the Hudson River towns.

A sample is below.

Check the Library Catalog if a volume is available for the town you are studying

Peekskill by J. J. Curran
Call Number: F129.P33 C8 (RH)
Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.

From Vernacular to Spectacular, Function Follows Form: How Houses Changed Lifestyles of the Hudson Valley Dutch, 1700-1830 by H. Meeske; G. Gross (Photos)
Call Number: NA7235.N72 H8459 (RH LC)
Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2007.
Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley by G. Long; J. Ivory (Foreword); B. Morgan (Photo)
Call Number: F127.H8 L66 (RH)
New York: Rizzoli, 2004.
Great Houses of the Hudson River by Historic Hudson Valley Staff (Contribution); M. M. Dwyer; M. Rockefeller (Preface); D. Rockefeller (Contribution)
Call Number: NA7235.N7 G74 (Oversize)
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 2001.
The Hudson Valley Dutch and Their Houses by H. F. Meeske
Call Number: NA7235.N72 H846 (RH)
Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 1998.
Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley by H. D. Eberlein; C. V. D. Hubbard
Call Number: F127.H8 E18 (RH)
New York: Dover, 1990.
Villas on the Hudson: A Collection of Photo-Lithographs of Thrity-One Country Residences by H. W. French; C. Vaux
Call Number: SPEC COLL FOLIO 1977 1 (RH)
New York: Da Capo Press, 1977, 1860.
(Located in Special Collections.)
[Reprint of the edition published by B. Appleton, New York.]
Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley Before 1776 by H. W. Reynolds
Call Number: NA7235.N7 H6 (RH)
New York: Dover Publications, 1965.

As the New York to Albany Railroad ran EAST of the Hudson River - it has historically been more developed

East of the River West of the River