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Wallace Bruce

The Hudson

Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention

Published by Good Press, 2019

goodpress@okpublishing.info

EAN 4064066242046

Table of Contents

1907—1909

CENTENNIAL GREETING

THE HUDSON

STEAMBOAT.

SUGGESTIONS.

NEW YORK TO ALBANY.

THE UPPER HUDSON.

SOURCE OF THE HUDSON.

GEOLOGY OF THE HUDSON.

THE HUDSON TIDE.

CONDENSED POINTS.

CENTENNIAL GREETING.

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History, Romance and Invention		9–39
	An Open Book	10
	The Hudson and the Rhine	11
	The Half Moon	12
	Its Discovery	15
	First Description	16
	Names of the Hudson	18
	Hills and Mountains	19
	Sources of the Hudson	19
	First Settlement	20
	The West India Company	21
	Original Manors and Patents	23
	New Amsterdam	23
	The Dutch and the English	24
	New York	27
	A Page of Patriotism	28
	Sons of Liberty	28
	Greater New York	30
	Hudson River Steamboats	31
	Day Line Steamers	34
	The Old Reaches	38
	Five Divisions of the Hudson	39

NEW YORK TO ALBANY.

Desbrosses Street Pier to Forty-Second Street		41–43
	Historic River Front	41
	A Great Panorama	41
	Statue of Liberty—Stevens Castle	42

Forty-Second to One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth		43–48
	Weehawken, Hamilton and Burr	43
	Riverside Drive and Park	45
	Columbia University	46
	General Grant's Tomb	46

One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth St. to Yonkers		49–50
	Washington Heights	49
	The Palisades	52
	Island of Manhattan	56
	Spuyten Duyvel Creek	57
	Yonkers	58

Yonkers to West Point		59–96
	Hastings and Dobbs Ferry	60
	Tappan Zee and Piermont	61
	Irvington and "Sunnyside"	62
	Washington Irving	63
	The Headless Horseman	66
	Tarrytown and Tappan	67
	Sleepy Hollow	70
	Nyack	72
	Ossining	73
	Croton River and Reservoir	74
	Haverstraw	75
	Stony Point	77
	Peekskill	79
	Story of Captain Kidd	80
	The Highlands	81
	Dunderberg	82
	Anthony's Nose	83
	Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery	84
	Beverley House	87
	Arnold's Flight	88
	Buttermilk Falls	91
	West Point Military Academy	92
	Plateau Buildings and Memorials	93–94
	Fort Putnam	95

West Point to Newburgh		97–103
	Northern Gate of Highlands	98
	"Undercliff"	99
	Storm King	100
	Cornwall and "Idlewild"	102

Newburgh to Poughkeepsie		104–128
	Washington's Headquarters	104
	Refusing the Crown	105
	Suffering of Soldiers	106
	Cessation of Hostilities	107
	Marquis de Lafayette	109
	Centennial Celebration	110
	Fishkill	113
	Duyvel's Dans Kammer	118
	"Locust Grove"	119
	The Storm Ship	120
	Poughkeepsie	121

Poughkeepsie to Kingston		129–146
	Hyde Park	130
	Mount Hymettus	130
	Rhinecliff	135
	City of Kingston	136
	The Senate House	138
	The Southern Catskills	142

Kingston to Catskill		147–168
	Montgomery Place	147
	Story of Steam Navigation	149
	Robert Fulton	151
	The "Clermont"	152
	Tivoli	154
	Saugerties	156
	The Livingston Country	157
	The "Shad Industry"	158
	Germantown	160
	Man in the Mountain	160
	New York City Water Supply	162
	The Clover Reach	163
	Catskill	164
	Otis Elevating Railway	165

Catskill to Hudson		169–172
	Hudson	169
	Columbia Springs	170
	Claverack and Hillsdale	171

Hudson to Albany		173–185
	Athens	173
	The Ice Industry	173
	Anthony Van Corlear	176
	The Mahican Tribe	177
	The Mahicans, Delawares and Iroquois	178
	The Old Van Rensselaer House	180
	Albany	181

THE UPPER HUDSON.

Albany to Saratoga		186–191
	Saratoga	187
	Historic Saratoga	189
	Mount McGregor	190

Saratoga to the Adirondacks		191–201
	Saratoga to Lake George	192

Lake George to the Adirondacks		197–201
	Ticonderoga	198
	Bluff Point	199
	Plattsburgh and the Saranacs	201

Source of the Hudson		202–210
	The Tahawas Club	202
	The Upper Ausable	203
	Haystack and Camp Colden	204
	The Deserted Village	205
	Indian Pass	206
	Tahawas	210

Geology, Tides and Condensed Points		211–224
	Geological Formation	211–215
	The Hudson Tide	215
	Condensed Points—New York to Albany	216–224

ROBERT FULTON'S "CLERMONT" 1807

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