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landfill, which was operated by the Westchester County government from 1927 to 1986. The landfill has since been capped off and restored to green space. A 1931 map shows the landfill area as marsh. [ 1 ] Events [ edit ] The park hosts…
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century. According to the New York Preservation Archive Project , Hall's "efforts in preservation can be attributed in large part to the City Beautiful movement in the early 1900s. . . . Hall was pivotal in the nascent efforts to pass legislation
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monitoring the aesthetic fabric in New York City." He was also an officer of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. The ASHPS was instrumental in advocating the preservation of
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bordered with cloth and hanging loops, hand colored, red borders. Though the U.S. Coast Survey rarely produced charts on rivers, the Hudson was one exception given its position as a major thoroughfare. Interesting, unusual, and quite uncommon as a
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complete run of the river from one user.” The map was produced from “a Trigonometrical Survey Under the Direction of A.D. Bache” the second Coast Survey Superintendent, who was great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was a physicist, scientist,
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side of the Point. The bridge over the railroad was known to local residents as the Kissing Bridge. Most of the people living on the Point were associated with the brick industry; there was a store, a school, tavern, boarding…
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'76 . In addition to recording the roads and buildings, Hall provided a numbered key (see below) to points of historic interest. Edward Hagaman Hall was a journalist who became involved in a variety of preservation organizations at the turn of…
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This is a detail from the Atlas of Westchester County, a color atlas created by the G. M. Hopkins Company between 1929 and 1931. It shows landmarks, land features, businesses, and some property ownership. The atlas is in four volumes…
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into the cemetery of the Van Cortlandt family, upon a beautiful point of land, commanding an extensive view of the Hudson southward. A little west of the cemetery, at the neck of land which connects Croton Point with the main…
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this engraving was 1872, the copyright was 1869—the same year attributed to his sister’s painting. Perhaps they climbed the hill together, each recording the beautiful vistas they saw below. This image is courtesy of The Old Print Gallery…
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overlooking the Hudson River at Squaw Cove. During the 1930s an emergency airplane landing strip with a 214-foot runway was built in the ball field area. Thanks to the Oechsner Archive for these vintage photos. Share this: Print (Opens…
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20th, 1780. Descendants of Peterson have the musket. Linden Cottage. Cannon ball found by Eugene Anderson, who now has it. It weighs five pounds. Old musket ram-rod found in clay. In possession of H. G Morehouse. Underhill Homestead. Old…
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Crosby, Cooper's Spy , once enticed ashore and helped capture a boat-load of British soldiers. Farm house 135 years old. Italian villa built by Dr. Robert T. Underhill, deceased. Cannon ball found lodged in a tree about eighty years…
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CROTON POINT SANITARY LANDFILL & RAILROAD 1 LANDFILL NYSDEC Site #360001 POST CLOSURE MONITORING AND SAMPLING REPORT Fifth Quarter Reporting October – December 2018 February – March 2020 May 2021 Louis J. Vetrone Deputy Commissioner 914-813-5429 Melissa-Jean Rotini Director of…
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today. Clarke designed many parks and public spaces in New York City and Westchester. This image, along with other works by Clarke, is available online at Cornell University Library . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link…
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July 2, 1923 the Westchester Board of Supervisors purchased the park and opened a limited area to the public. They replaced a group of shacks known as “tent city” with baseball fields, and the dance hall with a camp for…
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James McNeill Whistler, who went on to paint the iconic “Whistler’s Mother,” was a Coast Survey engraver. 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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biking path that roughly follows the route of the Old Croton Aqueduct , has an endpoint near the base of the dam. Teatown Lake Reservation , a nature preserve, lies nearby as does Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson. Panoramic view…
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Detail from the Town of Cortlandt map from Atlas of New York and vicinity … by F.W. Beers, published by Beers, Ellis & Soule, New York, 1868. The entire atlas is available online at David Rumsey . Share this: Print (Opens in…
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This hand-colored engraving, after a painting by William Hart, is from the portfolio Gallery of Landscape Painters—American Scenery published in New York by G.P. Putnam & Sons in 1872. The view is looking southwest from what we know…
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Brooklyn from André Parmentier, a wealthy, educated Belgian who came to America to escape the French Revolution. Parmentier started a nursery that included a vineyard. At first he sold only European grapes but, according to Hedrick, he later added
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Underhill. The ball is now in possession of S. W. Underhill and weighs about six pounds. The tree is not now standing, and the oldest inhabitant does not remember in which side of the tree the ball lodged. Place where…
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