History
In 1609, the Dutch East India Company had financed English navigator Henry Hudson to search for the Northwest Passage. In an attempt to find this undiscovered route, Henry Hudson decided to sail his ship up the river that would later be named after him (Hudson River). As he continued up the river, its width expanded, into Haverstraw Bay, leading him to believe he had successfully reached the Northwest Passage. He docked his ship on the western shore of Haverstraw Bay and claimed the territory as the first Dutch settlement in North America.
In 1780, spy Major John André landed at Snedeker's Landing (a.k.a. Waldberg Landing) on the west shore of the bay in the woods below Haverstraw village to meet Benedict Arnold.
In 1801, Charles Willson Peale traveled up the Hudson and sketched Stony Point from the bay.
The bay appears in the 1975 James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead.
The bay is currently traversed by NY Waterway's Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry.
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