Van Keurens

Van Keurens, New York is a village created by Matheus Van Keuren in the 18th century. The community is located in Dutchess County, New York, USA.

Van Keurens is in the Town of Poughkeepsie.

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 many of the links of the chain used in the Hudson River Chain at his foundry at Spackenkill. The village is partly a wooded, unpopulated area between IBM and the Clinton Point Quarry owned by Tilcon, Inc., but part of the land rests on a Spackenkill residential community known informally as Crown Heights.

External links

* [http://genforum.genealogy.com/vancuren/messages/8.html/ About the Van Keurens]
* [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=14&x=183&y=1440&z=18&w=1&qs=%7cvan+keurens%7cny%7c/ TerraServer Topographic Map showing Van Keurens land]