Supervisor and Historian Recognize Wappinger Town’s 147th Birthday on May 20
On this date 147 years ago, in 1875, the New York State legislature officially created the “Town of Wappinger”. Residents of what was then the northern portion of the Town of Fishkill petitioned the State to create its own separate Town. Wappinger, the youngest and yet second largest Town in Dutchess County has seen much…