New Hackensack’s post office opened in 1836, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
Most of New Hackensack was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1966. Its Register listing is . Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1893 on, and old-book passages.
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Quick answers
How New Hackensack began
When was New Hackensack founded?
1836
The New Hackensack post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name.
2020 census: 1,497190 years
Founding year: the first New Hackensack post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about New Hackensack’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Hackensack. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1893Poughkeepsie sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Hackensack.
The story so far
New Hackensack, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Hackensack yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
New Hackensack is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Wappinger in Dutchess County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, New Hackensack had a population of 1,497. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. New Hackensack is in western Dutchess County, in the northeastern section of Wappinger. It is bordered to the southwest by the Myers Corner CDP and to the west by the Hudson Valley Regional Airport, formerly known as Dutchess County Airport and originally known as "New Hackensack Field" in the 1930s and 1940s. New York State Route 376 passes through the community, leading north 7 miles (11 km) to Poughkeepsie and southeast 5 …
Its first post office opened in 1836.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about New Hackensack in 1909
Passages that mention New Hackensack, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The history of Dutchess County, New York1909 · page 471Read the page →
Read the text
The Rbpoemed Chuech or New Hackensack was organized in 1768. For several years services were held in private houses. In 1766 there were thirty-three members in full communion, and a wooden church edifice built. This building was taken down in 1834, when the present brick church was erected.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
New Hackensack, decade by decade
One decade in the archive so far: the 1870s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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