Local History Talk: Historical Trade Routes in the Hudson Valley

The Hudson Area Library and the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History present an in-person presentation by Justin Wexler, a local researcher on indigenous peoples, and David William Voorhees, director of the Leisler Institute. The talk, Waterways, Footpaths & Wagon Ways: Hudson River Trade Prior to the Founding of Hudson, discusses the infrastructure of waterways and land paths used for trade by the indigenous and the Dutch and English colonists prior to Hudson’s founding.