Courtesy of the Library of Congress
"That village where you count scarcely more than 50 houses in the space of two miles has for a long time been the principal depot of the American Army.
It is there that they have placed the magazines, the hospitals, the work shops, but all these establishments form a village by itself, composed of fine and large barracks which they have constructed in the woods at the foot of the mountains."
— account of Fishkill by the Marquis de Chastellux, November 20, 1760 from A history of Fishkill, N.Y., 1683-1873.
