Dreaming in the Hudson Valley
Taughannock Falls is 33 ft higher than Niagara Falls and is the highest free-fall waterfall in the northeastern United States. It falls with such force, the plunge pool carved out below is more than 30 ft deep. Somewhere in Tompkins County, the Taughannock Creek empties into Cayuga Lake. Three main falls (Taughannock Falls, Lower…
Miss C. E. Mason’s Suburban School “The Castle” Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y. The natural advantages of the superb location ( 40 minutes from Nw York), add the educational opportunities of this thoroughly modern school, offering courses almost as varied and broad as many of the colleges, and to that add the ideal union of home, social and school…
Yonkers Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Association Yonkers Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Committee On June 12, 1888, a committee of twenty-five citizens, to be known as the “Yonkers Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Committee,” was formed to insure the accomplishment of the object of their appointment — the erection of a suitable monument in memory of the Union…
On Tuesday, August 10, 1909, an explosion at the Murray Electric Light & Power Co. left Monticello’s business section ravaged. Flames quickly engulfed the power plant and rapidly spread to the Palatine Hotel and Casino, the Strong & Co’s book store, the S. L. Strong’s grocery store, the T. H. Dougherty’s harness store, and John Lyon’s law office. Traveling…
After spending several years in Ardsley, New York, I still don’t know how to describe where Ardsley is, without getting too technical, besides saying its between Yonkers and White Plains and had the New York State Thruway run past it. On a rare instance where I was taking the Metro-North’s Hudson Line, I passed a…
Israel Putnam served throughout the French and Indian War, being captured by Indians and rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1759. At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, Putnam was appointed a major general in the Continental Army. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill in June 1775 and in May 1777 he was put in…