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41.68° /-73.89°

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First settled in 1687, this central Hudson River Valley city is the home of Marist and Vassar colleges. The city's lovely and somewhat unwieldy name derives from an even longer Indian name that translates as the "Reed-Covered Lodge by the Little Water Place."
You can catch a performance at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House or see some of the 12,500 paintings at the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center on the Vassar campus. You can also visit Clinton House (1765), government headquarters when the state capital was located here, and Locust Grove, the home of Samuel F.B. Morse, educator, painter, and inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code. Youngsters will find more than 50 interactive exhibits and exploration areas at the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum.

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