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Honoring our Beacon Veterans

Honoring our Beacon Veterans

Click above to watch this program from October 28, 2025.

Denise VanBurenOctober 31, 2025beacon Elks Lodge

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The Hamiltons in Beacon

Denise VanBurenSeptember 26, 2025

As we look forward to Thanksgiving, we note that our headquarters will be closed from November 23-December 3.

Beacon Historical Society

61 Leonard Street,

Beacon, NY, 12508,

United States

(845) 831-0514 beaconhistorical@gmail.com

Hours

Mon Closed

Tue Closed

Wed Closed

Thu 10am - 12pm

Fri Closed

Sat 1pm - 3pm

Sun Closed

Fishkill Landing’s grand Cedar Grove, the DeWint House, lost to fire in 1862.

November Meeting: Join us at the Elks Club (900 Wolcott Avenue) November 25 at 7 p.m. for what promises to be an outstanding program! Researcher and Author Michael Green will present “Culture Sisters: The DeWints of Fishkill Landing,” an evening dedicated to the story of four remarkable women who led exceptional lives after being raised at the waterfront estate Cedar Grove (above), the homestead of the DeWints, once located near today’s Bank Street and lost to fire in 1862.

Mr. Green, who recently retired from a 40-year career as an attorney and financial advisor, now devotes the bulk of his time to researching the Hudson Valley’s social and cultural history. Much of this work stems from material that he gathered in the process of renovating Newburgh's 1868 Fullerton Mansion.

As always, if you are unable to join us in person, we make every effort to stream our monthly meetings live via a Zoom link on the bottom of the front page of our website below. (Previous meetings can be found under the Past Events tab on that website.) Our meetings also appear on Beacon Cable Channel 22 seven days a week, with the latest video appearing each night at 9:30 p.m. and the previous month each morning at 10:00 a.m. All free for you to enjoy!

Our meetings are held on the Fourth Tuesday of each month (unless otherwise noted) at 7 p.m.

If you can’t join us in person, we make every effort to stream the meeting live via this link - just copy and paste to your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83013097118?pwd=T1hYdHJMMTZqS3FyM2phS2VuMEttUT09

Beacon Historical Society
PO Box 89
61 Leonard Street
Beacon, NY 12508