New Hamburg

History

Road records of 1770 show that there were shipping facilities in New Hamburg called "Hood Landing". Rivermen called the rocky point of land in the angle between the Hudson and the mouth of Wappinger Creek "High Point" and the area which projected into the river a few miles south "Low Point" (Chelsea). Lime burning became an important industry. Dr. Benjamin Ely's map of 1797 shows a lime kiln in New Hamburg. By 1800, Ephraim DuBois had settled at High Point. In 1837 he sold his property, including a lime quarry and kiln, to Adolph Brower from New York. Brower's customers were local pig iron producers and farmers and builders as far away as New Jersey, supplied by river boat. He tore down the DuBois house and built his own on the same site circa 1844. New Hamburg Yacht Club is now situated approximately where the "Old Lime Dock" was. The riverfront near the lime kilns was a favorite local bathing area called the "Sandy Bottom Shore.” When the railroad was built in the late 1840s, excess stone was tossed onto the naturally sandy beach area. In the early 1820s, lumber surpassed lime kilns as a business. Charles Millard, who owned a lumber business based in Ulster County, moved to the Landing in 1824 and opened a lumber yard. Since most of the lumber and log shipments were made by water, Millard's son, Walter, branched out into ship building and freighting. He and a partner, Uriah Mills, built the barge Lexington, which carried freight up and down the Hudson River and the steamer Splendid, which carried both freight and passengers. In 1848, construction began on the Hudson River Railroad in order to expand the Troy and Greenbush Railroad from the Albany area to New York City. In 1848–1849, a cholera epidemic swept through the community of railroad workers. It is…

Geography

New Hamburg sits above sea level and sits in the Eastern Time Zone.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  19,102
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  16,435
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  15,970
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  15,895
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  15,604
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  15,057
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  14,482
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  14,298

Most recent

• M 2.8 — 2025-08-05
  1 km N of Hillsdale, New Jersey
• M 3 — 2025-08-03
  0 km W of Little Ferry, New Jersey
• M 2.95 — 2009-02-03
  1 km ESE of Victory Gardens, New Jersey
• M 2.6 — 2001-10-27
  1 km NNW of Manhattan, New York