The City of Peekskill traces its origins to Jan Peeck’s mid-17th-century trading post on Annsville Creek. By 1764 Peekskill Landing was settled along the Hudson River, and the area between Annsville Creek and Dickey Brook was incorporated as a village in the Town of Cortlandt in 1816. By the late 18th century Peekskill had established itself as a busy port, transporting people, agricultural products and goods from Northern Westchester to New York City by sloop and, eventually, steamship. In the 19th century it became a center for manufacturing as well, and was the site of many iron foundries that made stoves and ploughshares. Incorporated as a city in 1940, it is, today, experiencing a resurgence as a center for artists, and is intent upon preserving its most important historic sites.

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1685 Deed with the Indians
for Ryck's Patent, Liber A

Map of Peekskill,
ca. 1750

Records of the
Peekskill Military Academy,
1887 and 1963

Aero View of Peekskill,
1911

Land Indenture,
May 10, 1748

Records of the Foundries,
1860-1920

Enumeration of St. Joseph's Home, Peekskill, NY,
1905

Records of Veterans from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War I, and Cemetery Maps,
ca. 1930's