Early Heritage Narrative Walk
Visitor Information
Location: 2589 NY-9H, Kinderhook, NY 12106
Hours: Dawn to dusk, 365 days a year
Admission: Free
Narrative Panels on Display:
- Native Inhabitants
- Enslavement in the Hudson Valley
- The Van Alen Family & Early Dutch Settlers
- Colonial Dutch Architecture
- Black Locust Trees
- Washington Irving
- The Original Ichabod Crane
- One-Room Schoolhouses
- Eleanor Roosevelt at Ichabod Crane
Exhibition Made Possible By:
The Embassy of The Netherlands in New York
Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation
Humanities New York
Hudson River Valley Greenway
County of Columbia
Also On Site
Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
Visit this c. 1850 Kinderhook school to learn about one-room schoolhouse education in the 19th century and the literary lore that gives the school its name.
Dutch Farming Heritage Trail
Explore the farmlands of Kinderhook’s early Dutch settlers on this 1.7-mile walking trail linking the Luykas Van Alen House to Martin Van Buren’s Lindenwald.
Luykas Van Alen House
The 1737 Luykas Van Alen House in Kinderhook, NY is recognized as one of the best remaining examples of a Dutch Colonial farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
Land Acknowledgement
Our sites are located on ancestral lands of the Muh-He-Con-Neok, “the People of the Waters that Are Never Still”. Called Mohicans by the English, these people are now officially known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. They have a rich and illustrious history which has been retained through oral tradition and the written word.
