A history of Cold Spring,
since 1846
Postcards, papers and photographs of Cold Spring from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗On July 15, 1691, Dortlandt and Sybrant secured a deed to the tract from Wappinger leaders, totaling as many as 17,480 acres (according to recent historical analysis) along the eastern bank of the Hudson River from the peak on Anthony's Nose to (and including) Pollepel Island, and east to a marked tree which would establish the tract's eastern border. This tract contained a large portion of modern-day Philipstown, New York, including the entire the Village of Cold Spring.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Cold Spring’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view[View in] ... Cold Springs, c. 1855: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cold Spring, decade by decade
![[View in] ... Cold Springs](https://images.towntapestry.org/story/11404/ffaff50d8af7f4df5b77-s.jpg)
Commons[View in] ... Cold Springsc. 1855![[View in] ... Cold Springs](https://images.towntapestry.org/story/11404/9374d735c9bb710bef28-s.jpg)
Commons[View in] ... Cold Springsc. 1855
CommonsChurch of Our Lady, Cold Springs.Alternate Title: American …c. 1855
CommonsChurch of Our Lady, Cold Springs.Alternate Title: American …c. 1855
CommonsCold Springs on the Hudson.Alternate Title: American viewsc. 1855
CommonsCold Springs on the Hudson.Alternate Title: American viewsc. 1855Nothing in Cold Spring is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cold Spring has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cold Spring Historic District in Philipstown, 0.1 miles away.
Cold Spring and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Cold Springs on the Hudson.Alternate Title: American views (c. 1855) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.