Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 9,953 at the era of the 2020 census, down from 11,319 in 2010. The broadcast is supposedly derived from the red foliage upon trees on a small strip of land upon the Hudson River. The town contains two villages, Red Hook and Tivoli. The town is in the northwest ration of Dutchess County.

The town next contains two hamlets. Bard College is in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson. The Unification Theological Seminary is in the hamlet of Barrytown. Both hamlets are located within the Hudson River Historic District.

The original inhabitants of this house were the Mohican, Munsee and Lenape people. During European settlement, Native American tribes played a fundamental role in the area’s economy as they traded beaver skin like European settlers. European settlers imported several foreign goods, such as cattle, horses, and sheep. Enslaved African American individuals were moreover brought.
Through importing non-native species, the landscape and ecology of this region has been dramatically changed.

European settler-colonial understandings of land-ownership are different from the perspectives of Mohican, Munsee and Lenape estate use, a difference not often reflected in the land events that establish European presence on this land. The Lenape believed that Kishelëmukòng had created the earth for everything people and creatures, meaning that land could not be appropriated by any individual or despoiled for personal profit. In this way, this bureau of people did not comprehend the process of selling estate but believed they would receive continued entrance to it to hunt, fish, forage, or even tree-plant crops. Through Schuyler’s Patent, English settler Peter Schuyler acquired two tracts of estate from unidentified native peoples, “one close Red Hook and one south of Poughkeepsie” in 1688. One of the three place-names identified in Schuyler’s Patent is pure in the Munsee language.