FISHKILL LANDING, or FISHKILL N. Y., formerly a village in Dutchess County, on the east bank of the Hud son River, the New York Central and Hudson River, and a branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railways. It is connected with the West Shore. Railroad at Newburg by ferry and with many of the towns and cities along the Hudson River by electric railways. It is about 55 miles north of New York. In 1913 it was combined with the village of Matte awan, becoming a city under the name of Beacon. It was used as a "landine as early as the times of exploration along the Hudson, and the first settlement was made about the last decade of the 17th century. During the Revolution the New York Provincial Conven tion met here, and it shares with Newburg and Matteawan the distinction of being the military depot for supplies for the American troops and frequently the headquarters of Washington. When peace was restored, its advantages as a trading post for the settlements on the east side of the Hudson gave it opportunities that caused it to become quite a good-sized village in the early part of the 18th century. In 1783
the Society of the Cincinnati was organized in its immediate vicinity. Its chief manufactures are the Corliss engines, rubber goods, bakers' machinery, hats, woolens, silks, brick and tile. Coal and food products are shipped here in large quantities from New York. Pop. (1910) 3,902. Consult Anon., (The Fishkill Centennial' (Fishkill Landing 1883); Bailey, H. D. B„ (Local Tales and Historical Sketches' (Fish kill Landing 1874); Brinckerhoff, T. van W„ Sketch of the Town of Fishkill, etc.' (Fishkill Landing 1866); Hasbrouck, F., (The History of Dutchess County, New York' (Poughkeepsie 1909) Smith, J. H., His tory of Dutchess County' (Syracuse 1882); Ver Planck, W. E., (The Birthplace of the Order of the Cincinnati" (in New England Magazine, Vol. XIV, p. 676, Boston 1896).