Red Hook, New York Facts for Kids

Red Hook is a community in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is a town which setting was in a view from a bridge.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Dutchess County, New York, United States
County seat: Poughkeepsie
Cities	Beacon Poughkeepsie
Towns	Amenia Beekman Clinton Dover East Fishkill Fishkill Hyde Park LaGrange Milan North East Pawling Pine Plains Pleasant Valley Poughkeepsie Red Hook Rhinebeck Stanford Union Vale Wappinger Washington
Villages	Fishkill Millbrook Millerton Pawling Red Hook Rhinebeck Tivoli Wappingers Falls
CDPs	Amenia Arlington Bard College Barrytown Brinckerhoff Chelsea Cove Crown Heights Dover Plains Fairview Freedom Plains Haviland Hillside Lake Hopewell Junction Hyde Park MacDonnell Heights Marist College Merritt Park Myers Corner New Hackensack New Hamburg Pine Plains Pleasant Valley Red Oaks Mill Rhinecliff Salt Point Shorehaven Spackenkill Staatsburg Titusville Upper Red Hook Vassar College Wassaic Wingdale
Other hamlets	Annandale-on-Hudson Bangall Boston Corner‡ Castle Point Chelsea Glenham LaGrangeville Linden Acres Lithgow Mabbettsville Oniontown Pleasant Plains Quaker Hill Rock City Shekomeko Silvernails Sylvan Lake Van Keurens Verbank
Former communities	Guinea Town
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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Red Hook, New York Media

A map of the Mid and Upper Hudson Valley by Gerard Van Keulen published in 1720, includes Magdalen island in present day Red Hook, which was often used as a waypoint for navigation. The text reads in English "New definition of the North River with all its anchor sites, depths, banks and cliffs: located in the New Netherlands"
A view of Overlook Mountain from Upper Red Hook
Red Hook, NY, USA, town hall
Depicted person: Egbert Benson – American politician (1746-1833)
Buffalo Mayor Joseph G. Masten (1809 - 1871)