Van Keurens, New York

Van Keurens, New York
Hamlet
Van Keurens Location in New York state
Coordinates: 41°38′42.81″N 73°56′36.73″W / 41.6452250°N 73.9435361°W / 41.6452250; -73.9435361Coordinates: 41°38′42.81″N 73°56′36.73″W / 41.6452250°N 73.9435361°W / 41.6452250; -73.9435361
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Dutchess
Town	Poughkeepsie

Van Keurens is a hamlet in the town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York. It was established by Matheus Van Keuren in the eighteenth century.

The Van Keurens lived in Kingston, New York, but Matheus owned a foundry on a parcel of land on the Hudson River, close to what is now IBM, in the community of Spackenkill. Matheus forged at his foundry at Spackenkill many of the links of the chain used during the Revolutionary War as part of the Hudson River Chain around Fort Montgomery.

The hamlet is now partly a wooded, unpopulated area between IBM and the Clinton Point Quarry owned by Tilcon, Inc., and part of land that rests on a Spackenkill residential community known informally as Crown Heights.

External links

• About the Van Keurens
• Topographic map showing Van Keurens land from USGS The National Map

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 Brinckerhoff Crown Heights Dover Plains Fairview Freedom Plains Haviland Hillside Lake Hopewell Junction Hyde Park Merritt Park Myers Corner Pine Plains Pleasant Valley Red Oaks Mill Rhinecliff Salt Point Spackenkill Staatsburg Titusville
Other hamlets	Annandale-on-Hudson Barrytown Boston Corner‡ Chelsea LaGrangeville Linden Acres Lithgow Mabbettsville New Hamburg Pleasant Plains Quaker Hill Shekomeko Silvernails Sylvan Lake Van Keurens Verbank Wassaic
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties