Editing East Fishkill, New York (section)

==History==
[[File:Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House]], built in 1759]]

The Wiccopee, a sub-tribe of the [[Wappinger]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], once lived in what is now the East Fishkill hamlet of [[#Wiccopee|Wiccopee]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Mills|first=Malcolm J.|title=East Fishkill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxfJh0Jd5EgC&pg=PA47|year=2006|publisher=Arcadia|isbn=978-0-7385-4460-1|page=47|quote= The Wiccopee were a subtribe of the Wappinger Indians and had villages at Fishkill Hook and on the flat land near Fishkill.}}</ref> One early European settler arrived around 1759.

[[Platt Rogers Spencer]], the inventor of the [[Spencerian script|leading U.S. business-handwriting style]] of the 19th Century, was born in the area in 1800.

The town of East Fishkill was established in 1849 from the eastern part of the town of [[Fishkill (town), New York|Fishkill]]. Its name comes from [[Fishkill Creek]], known as the ''Vis [[Kille (body of water)|Kille]]'' (Fish Creek) to the Dutch settlers in the area.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffi23| title=Fisher County| publisher=Texas State Historical Association| access-date=May 24, 2012| author=Hooper Shelton}}</ref>