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Details of the Croton Area from Julius Bien’s Atlas of the Metropolitan District and adjacent country comprising the counties of New York, Kings, Richmond, Westchester . . . Published by Julius Bien & Co. New York. 1891. Share this: Print (Opens in
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A wood engraving of Croton Point and the west bank of the Hudson River from Art Journal, 1875 . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share
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Details from a multi-page Map of the Hudson River , published by Rand McNally. This map may have been issued separately, but the copy used here was inserted in the book The Hudson River, from Ocean to Source by Edgar Mayhew Bacon, published by G.P.
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Putnam’s Sons, 1902. The Bacon book is available online from Open Library . Note: The printing plate used for the color blue is out of register on this copy. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
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Related Tagged Croton Landing Enoch's Neck Published March 7, 2012 February 17, 2013
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Detail from an engraving based on one of Robert Erskine’s military maps, showing the Croton Area in 1778-1780. The full map is below. Since this was produced for military purposes it notes the location of Cortlandt Furnace (as well as the Sing Sing
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silver mine). This copy was printed and folded into Washington Irving’s multi-volume Life of George Washington , published in 1859. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook
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Cortlandt Furnace Sing-Sing Published March 9, 2012 February 17, 2013
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Detail of the Croton area from Fowler’s New Map of the Hudson River , 1845. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new
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Detail of the Croton area from a 1938 Standard Oil of New York automobile map. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in
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An ad from the Hudson River Chronicle newspaper, published in Sing Sing, November 2, 1841. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X
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A selection of images from a souvenir post card folder, printed in Newburgh, N.Y., soon after the Bear Mountain Bridge was opened.The folder consists of a cover, with an accordian-folded strip of 18 post card sized images, printed back-to-back. The
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cost of mailing the item was 1.5 cents. According to the Wikipedia article on the bridge “from the time of its completion in 1924, it held the record for the longest suspension bridge in the world for 19 months, until it was surpassed by the Benjamin
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Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia.” Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new
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A detail from Colton’s driving & wheeling map of the country twenty-five miles north of the city of New York. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. 312 Broadway, New York, 1892. A note in red above the title says: “These maps are particularly intended for the use
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of Sportsmen, Wheelmen, and Driving Parties, and we respectfully request that any errors or omissions which may be noticed, or other Suggestions for their improvement, shall be at once reported to us, that they may be incorporated into future
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editions. We especially desire names of creeks and ponds and information respecting new roads, etc.” Note the Iron Works & Rolling Mill at the site of High Bridge, between the mouth of the river and Quaker Bridge. The entire map is available at David
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