Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park unveiled its first portrait of an enslaved resident, the latest step in the museum’s new mission to deal more directly with the legacy of slavery. Continue reading →

The Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park is gaining attention for its efforts to include a more comprehensive view of how slavery worked at the historic estate. Continue reading →

Riversdale Mansion is using its gardens to teach about the history of indigenous and enslaved people in the area.  Continue reading →

The Town of Riverdale Park will name the green space known as the “field of dreams” after Adam and Emily Plummer, a married couple whose life stories in the area are told in a well-known family biography written by their daughter. Continue reading →

When an epidemic hit Riverdale Park in 1813, those affected did not yet have the scientific understanding to know why it was happening. Continue reading →

It’s the end of summer and the eight plots at the Riversdale House Museum historic garden are thriving with a variety of flowers in full bloom, summer vegetables and other field crops typical of the early 1800s. Continue reading →

When Henri Stier first built the Riverdale Park landmark in the early 1800s, he had  thousands of tulip and hyacinth bulbs planted around the property. Stier was a native of Belgium, which is second to the Netherlands in tulip production. Continue reading →