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…Salsa, Bluegrass to Jazz, and Funk to Folk. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The festival was cancelled in 2022, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 32 ] [ 33 ] A new festival, Hudson River Music Festival, was established at Croton Point Park in
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…A total of seven plant species observed in the Croton Marsh appear on the NY rareplant status list or the NY watch list. i Ambient air and landfill gases (point & nonpoint that a significant amount of methane is soil gas…
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fruiterers, grocers, &c., &c. Another trade card for the Underhill vineyards, showing the wine vaults which still exist—though much neglected—on Croton Point. The transportation is always by means of steamboat, the jarring of railroad being
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…Commissioners reported in favour of its use, though far away; and in May, 1837, the construction of an aqueduct from a point six miles from its mouth to the
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…From no point on the Hudson can be seen, at a glance, such a cluster of historic localities, as from this eminence. Here Washington was encamped in 1782, and made this pinnacle his chief observatory. At one sweep
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…A letter to the New York Daily News stated, “It is our purpose to make of the Point a very high class place for the enjoyment of our
Various (1971)
— source
[Various (1971)] 9, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester.) The Bell-Philhower Site in Sussex County, New Jersey. Prehistory Research Series, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 147-272, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Ind. Archaeological Explorations in Canada. Museum Service…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…The Indian name of the point was
Senasqua. An early settler on the point was one
Teller, and the land became known to rivermen as
296 The Hudson River
Teller's; but after a while this man died, and his…
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christened “Interwasser”. Detail showing the rooftop and cupola of the Underhill mansion on the southern tip of Croton Point. Click the image to enlarge it. The image is courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery , which has made “thousands of
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…The Point was owned by himself and brother, both of whom had extensive vineyards and
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…Underhill was the “grape king” of Croton Point. How significant were the Underhill vineyards? In his multi-volume History of Wine in America , Thomas Pinney says the Underhills were the “first dynasty in American
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…Detail showing the Underhill mansion at the southern tip of Croton Point. The faint white horizontal and vertical lines seen in these details are where blocks of wood, each prepared by a different
crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/12/29/hudson-valley-echoes-issue-2/
…The journal focuses on regional Indigenous history and local heritage, covering topics including Croton Point, Croton River, the Hudson Highlands, the Hudson River, and the Lower Hudson Valley.
Date: Various
Source: crotonhistory.org — https://crotonhistory.org/2013/12/29/hudson…
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which you may find noticeable. Almost within sight of Manhattan Island, a narrow point projects suddenly from the main land into the Hudson, whose waters wash its west bank, the Croton River forming its eastern boundary. This grassy, well-wooded
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While visiting a home in the Harmon area the owners proudly pointed out the Croton Point bricks used in the floor of what had originally been a large covered porch. Well-worn from more than a century of use, many…
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…Whole body tissue analysis has shown that fish taken from the area of the Croton Point Landfill contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as do fi h from throughout the Lower Hudson River. The contribution of the Croton Po nt Landfill to…
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. II, No. 7. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
See Gamoenepa
Concourse, see Grand Concourse
Coney Island, 157, 162, 165
Coney Island creek, 165
Coney Island Jockey Club, 164
Connecticut, 121
Constable point, 198, 231
Continental Village, 92
Conykeekst, 72, 73, 74, 235
Cool, Cornells, 144
Cooper street, 86…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…planck's Point, was controlled absolutely by the British ships, and
on account of its great width, as well as of the barrier from west to
was utterly uneast interposed by the wide expanse of the Croton,
available for American…
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away ahead a steamboat just passing Croton Point. With increasing speed we flash by Sing Sing, screaming as though our monster locomotive craved some victim to wet its rails. Now Brandreth's pretty little pill box and factory close under…
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…Underhill, the “Grape King” of Croton Point, was an investor in this company—which began the New York City transportation system. Click on the photo to enlarge
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…Having visited the Croton Point vineyards while the luxuriant harvest was at its height, some things were observed
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the Hudson by Sanford Robinson Gifford, shows the view looking west from the southern shores of Croton Point. Hidden in the trees in the foreground is the rooftop and cupola of Richard T. Underhill’s Italianate villa, which he built…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…barges were used in transporting it to New York, for distribution there,
and exportation.
"We crossed the bay to Croton Point, visited the villa and vineyards of
MOLTH 01 THE CROTON.
Doctor XJnderhill, and then rowed up Croton Bay to…
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…Trichloroethene Trichlorofluoromethane Vinyl chloride 0.5 0.5 0.5 ug/L ug/L ug/L Croton Point Sanitary Landfill Railroad 1 Landfill, NYSDEC Site #360001 Post Closure Monitoring and Sampling Report, Table 2(SRF-3B…
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on Grove Street, in Tarrytown, eventually became the home of the Tarrytown Historical Society. 1 For more information on the Underhill vineyards, see these previous posts: The Grape King of Croton Point , features two color prints of the grapes that
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the New York Times —from October 23, 1862—and read the letter, The Season of the Vintage, the Croton Point Vineyards, to learn about the “commodious and cool” wine cellars, the clever “Yankee” solution to an invasion of “ground moles…
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…Some of the cabins and outhouses on Croton Point when Westchester County purchased the land. Here’s a 19th century advertisement from The Clay-Worker for the “I. X. L. ‘SPECIAL’ Brick Machine” that may have made these
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History on the Beach
During a beach walk along Croton Point's north shore, the author discovered old bricks embedded in concrete, stamped with "IX" and "XL" markings. These artifacts originated from William A. Underhill's brickyard at the point…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
Howe with information that a part of Clinton's army were then
above the new bridge on Croton River pushing for the Point ;
and that he was retreating from the Point as fast as possible. On this Gen. Heath ordered…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
…which when finished will reach as high as that point and from it one can command a view of the country for miles on each side up and down the Croton valley. Douglass was talking to Corporal McDowell and other…