Temperatures dropped so low in the winter of 1893 that business was frozen to a standstill. Six hundred canal boats, schooners, brigs and barks were locked by ice in Red Hook's Atlantic and Erie Basins. This was less of an inconvenience for the...

2016 draft map created by Eymund Diegel, based on his research describing Red Hook streams, ponds, tide mills up to around 1850.  The base map is the  Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey.  Captions are derived from Stile's comprehensive...