Dyckman House

The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum recognizes and acknowledges the land on which the farmhouse stands. Dutch colonists removed the Munsee Lenape people from the unceded land, not far from Fort Tryon Park where tribal groups lived until the late 17th Century. While forcefully removed from their land, indigenous people are active in our community today. We are also on land that enslaved Africans worked against their will for the betterment of local Dutch farmers. We acknowledge that our institution formed by the Dyckman family was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous, African descendants, and other peoples. These people built much of this country under brutal conditions without pay or recognition. We name the original stewards of this land as a way to recognize the complete history of our nation, both the harm of colonization and the potential for repair.