Casperkill Watershed Oral History Project

The original Hagan farm house still stands.  The unique architecture of the building distinguishes it from the other houses in the neighborhood. From the 1930s until the 1950s the area that is now the Spackenkill neighborhood, or Hagan Town, was the property of Hagan Farms. Jim Warner, who worked at Hagan Farms in the early […]

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This house, now a law office, was the main farmhouse at Hampton Farms Jim Warner is 80 years old. He has lived his whole life in Poughkeepsie, so he remembers the transition from agriculture to industry that took place within the Casperkill watershed over the course of the 20th century. Mr. Warner himself was part […]

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