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Dutchess County Historical Society Events Exhibits New Noteworthy About Us Dutchess County Historical Society The things that we can see and touch awaken the imagination. Local history touches off these things that have happened on the spot and the facts of local history become parts of a persons own life to an extent which is rare with scenes and incidents one has taken solely out of books and secondhand accounts. The historian and philosopher Louis Mumford speaking to the DCHS membership at the Amenia estate of Joel and Amy Spingarn in September of 1926. Navigating Wealth Poverty The Varied Economies of the 19thCentury Black Community Learn how global trade and a Wall Street Baron intersected with local merchants and working class through the tumultuous period of the 19th Century and US Civil War.