Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/89

• ...that the O. H. Booth Hose Company (pictured) in Poughkeepsie was named after the fire chief who formed it after a previous company of volunteer firefighters quit because they were jealous of other companies' facilities?
• ... that in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange, Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany, New York?
• ... that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York, and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?