EDUCATION              
 

Education took its roots early in the County’s history.  The earliest known area schoolhouse (c.1736) was the Kinderhook Village School House which stood along the southern boundary of the Schemerhorn-Pruyn estate. 

Columbia Academy, an early Dutch school in Kinderhook,   was opened in 1792 and was incorporated in March 1797.

The Columbia Academy was incorporated in 1824 and the present structure at 29 Albany Avenue was built in 1836. The 1843 Academy Catalogue listed courses to prepare men for college or employment in counting houses, and young ladies were offered a complete course of "solid and ornamental education". The building was sold in 1896 and was then used as a printing house for the Rough Notes, next as a knitting mill, and was purchased in 1909 by the Lindenwald Grange.     

 

 

The Teacher

The Norman Rockwell Museum
Stockbridge MA
 

The Academy was to become one of the most notable of its kind in the state and students attending came from not only around the county but from as far away as Albany, Troy, Pittsfield, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

1778 Andrew Mayfield Carshore, a deserter from Burgoyne’s army, established an English School in Kinderhook to be known as Kinderhook Academy.

Today, education is more important than ever.

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LINKS TO EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

 

COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY

Bard College - www.bard.edu/

Berkshire Community College - www.cc.berkshire.org/flash.html

Columbia Greene Community College - www.sunycgcc.edu/

Hudson Valley Community College - www.hvcc.edu/

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - www.rpi.edu/index.html


In Class, Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent  


The Darrow School, New Lebanon

HISTORIC SITES - Click Here

LIBRARIES

Canaan (Branch of Chatham Public Library)
1647 Route 5, Canaan NY
518 392-3666 

Chatham Public Library
11 Woodbridge Avenue, Chatham NY 12037
518 392-3666
 http://chatham.lib.ny.us/

Mary E. Dardess School Library
50 Woodbridge Street, Chatham NY 12037
518 392-3666 

Claverack Free Library
Routes 23-B & 9-H, Claverack NY 12513
581 851-7120
 http://claverack.lib.ny.us/

Germantown Library
71 Palatine Park Road, Germantown NY 12526
518 537-5800
 http://germantownlibrary.org/

Roeliff Jansen Community Library
2609 Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529
518 325-4101
 www.hillsdalepubliclibrary.org/ 

Hudson Area Library
400 State Street, Hudson NY 12534
518 828-1792
http://hudson.lib.ny.us/

Kinderhook Memorial Library
18 Hudson Street, Kinderhook NY 12106
518 758-6192
http://oklibrary.org/

Livingston Free Library
90 Old Post Road, Livingston NY 12541
518 851-2270
http://livingston.lib.ny.us/ 

New Lebanon Library
Routes 20 & 22 Tilden Road
New Lebanon, New York
518 794-8844
http://newlebanon.lib.ny.us/ 

North Chatham Free Library
Main Street, Route 203
North Chatham, New York 12132
518.766.3211
 http://northchatham.lib.ny.us/

Philmont Public Library
101 Main Street
Philmont, NY 12565
518.672.5010
 www.philmont.org/library/index.html

Valatie Free library
3203 Church Street, Valatie NY 12184
518 758-9321
http://valatielibrary.org/

May Day
Hawthorne Valley School
Ghent


Hudson Area Library

 

Columbia County Historical Society Museum Kinderhook

 


Chatham Public Library

 

MUSEUMS

American Museum of Fire FIghring
117 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson NY 12534
www.fasnyfiremuseum.com/home.php

Columbia County Historical Society Museum
5 Albany Avenue, Kinderhook NY 12106
 www.cchsny.org/

Olana
Route 9-G, Germantown NY 12526
www.olana.org/

Shaker Museum & Library
Old Chatham
 www.shakermuseumandlibrary.org/

Shaker Museum & Library
Mount Lebanon
 http://mountlebanonshakervillage.org/

Robert Jenkins House Museum and Library
(Maintained by Hendrick Hudson Chapter, DAR)
113 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534
 http://mysite.verizon.net/mhmjm/HENHUD1/Page_1.html


Robert Jenkins House
& Library Museum, Hudson

PUBLIC  RADIO & TV

WAMC - FM 97.1, 90.3, 105.1 - Talk & NPR News - www.wamc.org/ 

WMHT – FM 97.7, 89.1, 88.7 - Classical Music 24 Hours Daily - www.wmht.org/radio/

WMHT – TV – Channel 17 - www.wmht.org/tv

PRIVATE SCHOOLS - COLUMBIA COUNTY

Darrow School – New Lebanon
www.darrowschool.org/

Hawthorne Valley School
 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org/

Mountain Road School
New Lebanon
 www.mountainroadschool.org/

PRIVATE SCHOOLS - BERKSHIRE COUNTY

PRIVATE SCHOOLS - DUTCHESS COUNTY

PRIVATE SCHOOLS - GREENE COUNTY

PRIVATE SCHOOLS - RENSSELAER COUNTY

 Ryder's Mills School House c.1797
Malden Bridge
 

Ryder's Mills School House
A Class Photo with Teacher c1940
 

 

PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS


Taconic Hills Central School

Berkshire Union Free School District, Canaan NY
 www.manta.com/comsite5/bin/pddnb

Chatham School Central District
 www.chathamcentralschools.com/ms/

Germantown Central School District www.germantowncsd.org/

                                 
Hudson City School District
 www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/

Kinderhook Central School District
 www.berk.com/ichabod/index.html

New Lebanon Central Schoool District
 www.newlebanoncsd.org/

Taconic Hills Central School District
 www.taconichills.k12.ny.us/                                                          

 


Chatham Middle School

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