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Since 1971, preserving Hastings-on-Hudson’s rich history along the Hudson River 🌊 👉Discover Hastings artifacts, photos 📸, oral histories 🎙️& more!
Invented in 1817 and wildly popular by the 1890s, the bicycle transformed everyday life!

This 1895 illustration by Edward Penfield traces a cycling route along the Hudson River. hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll...
January 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
With 150,000 lights, holiday music and hot chocolate, how wonderful it was to volunteer at @untermyergardens annual Grand Holiday Illumination again!

It’s free and open every night through Sunday, January 4th.

#HastingsHistoricalSociety #SeasonGreetings #MerryHappyJoy
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🗓️ One more time before the year ends! Join us Monday, 11am–2pm for our final open day of 2025. Bring friends, family and your curiosity.

Don’t fret, we will be open next Saturday, January 3, 2026 from 2-4pm

Find us in the beautiful Draper Park!
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Winter on Ravensdale Road, Hastings-on-Hudson, 1890, Watercolor and gouache on paper

Did you know that Cropsey’s granddaughter, Isabel Wack, and her husband—future Hastings mayor William Steinschneider—lived in the Cropsey home on Washington Avenue in the 1920s and ’30s?
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Shop local & give the gift of Hastings this holiday season 🎁
Hastings-themed merch, local history, and thoughtful gifts—right here in the Cottage.
🗓️ Today, Mon Dec 22 | 11am–2pm
📍 Draper Park, 407 Broadway

Explore our lastest exhibit The Times They Are A-Changin’: Hastings in the 1960s.
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We’re open tomorrow Sat, Dec 6th from 2–4pm!
“A concerted effort will be made to educate the grown-ups of our district to the plans and aims of our Republic with the hope that they will see the Glorious Light and join our movement. Dissenters will be confiscated with great irrever-ence!!”
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
✨ Not an easy one… this 504-piece puzzle features Lindsey Taylor’s photo of the beloved Menconi squirrel sculpture in Hastings’ Squirrel Alley. You’ll definitely work for the solution! 🐿️🧩 Available now in the Cottage + online hastingshistoricalsociety.org/product/menc...
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
✨ December is the perfect month to visit The Cottage! ✨
Featured here: a 1967 launch by the Hastings Aeronautic & Rocketry Club 🚀
🗓️ Dec Open Hours
Sat, Dec 6: 2–4pm
Mon: 11am–2pm (Dec 1, 8, 15, 22, 29)
Thurs 11am–2pm (Dec 4, 11, 18)
❌ Closed Dec 25
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
✨ Holiday week hours! ✨
New Merch! New Exhibit! Visiting family in the Rivertowns? Bring them to The Cottage at the Hastings Historical Society for local history, gifts + a warm welcome.
🗓️ Mon Nov 24, 11–2pm
🗓️ Fri Nov 28, 11–2pm
#HastingsOnHudson #HastingsHistoricalSociety #RivertownsNY #ShopLocal
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Have you stopped by the Hastings Historical Society lately — the little yellow cottage in Draper Park!
We’re open this Mon from 11–2. Come rediscover the stories, photos + people that make Hastings special.
#HastingsOnHudson #ExploreWestchester #WhatWasThere #Rivertowns #HastingsHistoricalSociety
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We are open this Saturday Join us from 2-4pm. Our current exhibit closes this month!

Hurst & Treanor shipped a $10,000 platform stone, “the largest flagstone that had ever been used,” for the sidewalk of William Henry Vanderbilt’s 5th Ave mansion.
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Want to know the TRUE story about that enigmatic stone building on Pinecrest?
If you are a member of the Hastings Historical Society you would have the answer in your mailbox 📫 See the latest edition of the Hastings Historian, a quarterly newsletter put out by dedicated volunteers!
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🎥CALL FOR 1960s FASHION PHOTOS 📸

Our 2025 annual exhibit is all about Hastings in the 1960s! 📸 We are looking for photos of people in Hastings sporting classic outfits from 1960-1969!

🗓 Exhibit opens November 2025
📩 Want to learn more?
📧 [email protected]
📞 914-478-2249
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hastings is highlighted in the new issue of “The Westchester Historian” by the Westchester County Historical Society.
Explore Hastings-on-Hudson’s early development with Keith Doherty. Battle of Edgar’s Lane / Revolutionary Westchester w WCHS librarian, Patrick Raftery, + archivist Monica Genuardi
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📖 Step back in time with us!
We’re open: Sat, Sept 6 | 2–4pm
Mon | 11am–2pm Sept 8, 15, 22, 29
Thurs | 11am–2pm Sept 4, 11, 18, 25

📰 Dobbs Ferry Register, 1897
📸 The Fraser Free School, c. 1890—now home to the Hook & Ladder Company firehouse.
September 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🖋️ In a world of texts and screens, reading cursive feels like a lost art — but at the Historical Society, it’s a superpower. 💫This spring, our intern, Esmé Read, spent two months decoding 19th-century handwritten documents from the Draper family archive. hastingshistoricalsociety.org/2025/07/28/d...
July 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Visit us in July + August! The Cottage is open Mondays & Thursdays. 🏠

Mon 11am-2pm
July 7, 14, 21, 26
August 4, 11, 18, 25

Thurs 11am-2pm
July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
August 7, 14, 21, 28
July 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#ICYMI

In case you missed our annual meeting presentation on historic structures that once stood in Hastings-on-Hudson but have since disappeared from the village landscape, you may now watch it here on HoH-TV. hastingsonhudsonny.new.swagit.com/videos/344390
June 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A special Thank You to David Forbes-Watkins, who is stepping down as Hastings Historical Society Treasurer. He has served in that role since 2011. We appreciate all of David’s guidance and hard work on the Society’s behalf.
Sue Smith, Annette Borowitz, Eileen + David Forbes-Watkins, Natalie Barry
June 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Help Preserve Hastings History — Now with Easy Photo Uploads!

Thanks to Trustee Richard Lovejoy, you can now upload images directly through our website. We welcome snapshots, family moments, local events + everyday scenes that reflect life in Hastings! hastingshistoricalsociety.org/submit-photos/
June 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Take a peek into Hastings’ past! Stop by the little yellow cottage in Draper Park—we’d love to see you!
🕰️ Regular hours continue Mon & Thur, 11am–2pm:
🗓️ Mon: June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
🗓️ Thurs: June 5, 12, 19, 26

The Cottage was open 🗓️ Saturday, June 7. Sorry for being late on this :)
June 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Did you miss our annual meeting at the @hohpubliclibrary? The @rivertownsdispatch didn’t! It was a packed house and many new things to learn.

You can read about it in last week’s edition or wait for the recording to come out on HoH-TV @hohgov
June 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The latest sighting of a cutie patootie sporting the “Future Historian Squirrel Tee.”

Generations of residents have enjoyed Raffaello Menconi’s bronze squirrel statue that sits at the entrance to the Squirrel Alley path between Maple Ave and Riverview Place. For sale in our shop 🐿️
June 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Annual Meeting | Gone But Not Forgotten: Lost Buildings of Hastings

Join us for a fascinating presentation on historic structures that once stood in Hastings.

Natalie Barry, President of the HHS, will guide us.

Free event – Light Refreshemnts

Sun, June 1st 2–4pm
Hastings Public Library
May 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Step inside history!

The Cottage will be open this 🗓️ Saturday, May 3rd, from 2–4pm. You can find us in the little yellow cottage in Draper Park.
🕰️Regular hours continue Mondays & Thursdays, 11am–2pm:

🗓️ Mondays: May 5, 12, 19
🗓️ Thursdays: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Come explore Hastings’ past with us!
May 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM