James Roosevelt was a man of means, a vice president of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., the owner of a large estate at Hyde Park overlooking the Hudson 60 mi. below Albany. There Franklin was born ...

The Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA) invites the public to the inaugural program in a new history series on ...

Complete Guide to the Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York including tours, things to ...

The Hyde Park Rotary Club is set to host “Comedy Night,” a fundraiser benefiting rotary projects, on Friday, Feb. 28, an ...

Get to know the extraordinary figures who have called Poughkeepsie home, including the inventor of Scrabble and a pioneering ...

While at Hyde Park, FDR becomes re-acquainted with ... 1924 is a crucial year for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor spends the spring fighting Tammany bosses over the choice of women ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... Roosevelt was born in 1882 and grew up in Hyde Park, his family's sprawling estate in New York, as the only child ...

In 1930s Hudson Valley, Margaret "Daisy" Suckley is reacquainted with her distant cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to help him relax at his family estate. That aid soon develops into much ...