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Preserve
America
On January 15, 2004, First Lady Laura Bush presented a Preserve
America Community Award to Hudson River Valley Institute’s
Executive Director James M. Johnson and Hudson River Navigator
Vincent Tamagna in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
The award designated Putnam County, New York, as one of the first
eight Preserve American Communities in the United States honored
for their commitment to protecting their heritage. Click here
to read more about the Preserve
America Heritage Program.
The Hudson
River Valley Review
The Hudson River Valley Institute has created a new website for
the Hudson River Valley Review. The site includes and index, images,
and a place for subscribing to the journal. It also has a link
to PDF versions of past issues and a PDF version of the current
issue.
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This Month's Featured Website |
The Putnam County Historical Society was founded in 1906 by a group
of prominent Philipstown residents and chartered the next year to
be the first historical society in the county. In 1960, with funds
from the estate of a longtime supporter and noted writer Laura Spencer
Portor Pope (1907-1957), the society acquired the Foundry School
building built in about 1830, enlarged in the 1860s, and used for
the education of the Foundry's teenage apprentices as well as its
employees' children. In 1971, a wing was added to house the society's
holdings related to the West Point foundry. Today, the museum is
owned by a not-for-profit corporation under the oversight of the
Department of Education of the State of New York. |
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This Months’s Featured Historic Site
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Founded
in 1791, the Albany Institute of History & Art, one of the oldest
museums in the United States, is dedicated to collecting, preserving,
interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art and culture
of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley. The majority of the objects
in the museum's collections were either made in the Albany area
or New York State, or were used and owned by documented families
living in the Hudson Valley region. Many objects in the collections
have national significance not only because of Albany's importance
during the 18th and 19th centuries as a center for trade and commerce,
but because some of America's most accomplished artists, craftsmen
and customers were living in the Hudson Valley during this period. |
This Month’s Featured Historic Town
of the Hudson River Valley
New
Paltz
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by French Huguenots in 1678, the village boasts the oldest street
of original houses in America, maintained by the Huguenot
Historical Society. Beautiful stone structures, a reconstructed
French Church, Huguenot Museum and comprehensive historical documentation
make New Paltz a fascinating step back in time. There are other
things to do in New Paltz as well. It offers premier hiking, rock
climbing, biking and sightseeing—easy access to the Mohonk
Preserve, Minnewaska State Park Preserve and the Wallkill Valley
Rail Trail. The village is buzzing with restaurants of every cuisine,
eclectic shops and antiques stores. |
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you would like to support the work of the Hudson River Valley Institute,
call 845-575-3052 to learn more about the Patriots’ Society, or
visit
www.hudsonrivervalley.org/patriotsSociety.php.
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