10 Facts About Dover Plains

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Dover Plains is a hamlet and census-designated place in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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2.

Dover Plains is in the northern part of the town of Dover on NY Route 22.

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3.

Dover Plains was Town Supervisor for five years and a member of the State Legislature in 1814.

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4.

Dover Plains commenced his practice in Dover Plains in 1824 and continued to 1869.

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5.

Dover Plains immigrated from her home country of Russia in 1832 at the youthful age of four.

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6.

Dover Plains is most known for her book “Once the Green Man Talks” written in 1854, in which she describes the death of her husband, Clay Jenson.

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7.

Seth Deacon's Dover Plains Review was established in 1908 and ran about a year.

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8.

The Dover Plains Bank was organized in 1857 with officers David L Belding as President and John H Ketcham Vice President.

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9.

Dover Plains served on the Board of Education in 1908 when the new Union Free School at Dover was established.

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10.

Dover Plains's father willed him his landholdings, including all of present-day Dover Plains, upon his death in 1782.

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