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This
Month’s Theme:
Hudson
River Valley Trails
The
Hudson River Valley is weaved through by a variety of trails appealing
to both history and nature lovers. Some of the Trails include
The Appalachian Trail, Greenway’s Trail, Knox Cannon Trail, and
many more. To take a look at the many Hudson River Valley trails
and get more information, click here.
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Events This
Month
18th Century Van Schaick Family and Hudson River Valley
Furnishings 5th, 12th, 19th, &
26th, Thursday
The General's Lady 8th, Sunday
Prehistoric and Hudson River Indians 11th,
Wednesday
Lecture & Book signing: The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph
Cable 13th, Friday
Viking Ship Celebration 28th, Saturday
This Week’s Featured Website
Hudson River
Valley Greenway
The
Greenway Act created two organizations to facilitate the Greenway process:
the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council and the Greenway
Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley. The Greenway Conservancy,
a public benefit corporation, works with local governments, organizations
and individuals to establish a Hudson River Valley Trail system, promote
the Hudson River Valley as a single tourism destination area, assist in
the preservation of agriculture and, with the Council, works with communities
to strengthen state agency cooperation with local governments. The Greenway
Conservancy provides technical assistance and funding for local planning
and project implementation related to the Greenway.
On
April 21, 2001 Governor George E. Pataki announced a $1 million grant
to the Hudson River Valley Greenway to establish a Hudson River Water
Trail stretching from Battery Park in the Village of Waterford, Saratoga
County, to Battery Park in Manhattan. The trail will provide access for
kayaks, canoes and small boats along 156-miles of the river.
Appalachian Trail
The Appalachian Trail is a continuous marked footpath that goes from Katahdin in
Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, a distance of about 2160
miles. Many trace the origins of the Trail to a 1921
article by Benton MacKaye entitled An Appalachian
Trail: A Project in Regional Planning.
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To
see a map of the Appalachian Trail throughout New York and New Jersey visit The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference official
website. The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference maintains the Appalachian
Trail in New York and New Jersey.
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The Knox Trail - Heritage Tour
Guide |
The Knox Trail
Through this place passed General Henry Knox in the winter of 1775
- 1776 to deliver to General George Washington at Cambridge the
Train of Artillery from Fort Ticonderoga used to force the British
army to evacuate Boston. Erected by the State of New York 1927.This
website serves as an introduction to the Knox Trail project of 1926
and the event which it was designed to commemorate. But it is also
a field guide to the
Knox Trail as it exists today - a heritage trail that runs
across New York State from Fort Ticonderoga to Hillsdale, and through
Massachusetts from the State Line to Boston. |
This Week’s Featured Historic Site
Five
days after the Declaration of Independence, the people of New York met
in convention in Kingston to vote their support and form their own state
government. Although their state was the scene of nearly a third of the
battles fought in the American Revolution, and their major port and city
was occupied, New Yorkers still managed to supply large quantities of
food, clothing, lead and iron to General Washington, as well as to serve
valiantly in the Continental Army. New Yorkers saw the christening of
the American flag when the Stars and Stripes was first flown in battle
at the defense of Ft. Stanwix in Rome. The Colony of New York became a
state on April 20, 1777 with the adoption of its first constitution-12
years before the Federal Constitution. After the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, New York City was chosen to be the nation's first capital
and was the site of the inauguration of George Washington as President
on April 30, 1789.
This Month’s Featured Historic Town
of the Hudson River Valley
Albany, NY
Albany (originally known as
Fort Orange, in 1664 renamed "Albany" to honor the Duke of York
and Albany)- founded 1609, "capital (1797) of the state of New York,
U.S., and seat (1683) of Albany County. It lies along the Hudson River,
143 miles (230 km) north of New York City. The heart of a metropolitan
area that includes Troy and Schenectady, it is a port of entry, the northern
terminus of the deepwater Hudson River Channel, and a natural transshipment
point between ocean-going vessels and the New York State Barge Canal routes
west to the Great Lakes... [Its] Dutch heritage is reflected in many street
names and in the annual (May) Tulip Festival held in Washington Park.
In 1689 one of the first intercontinental conventions was held in Albany
to discuss a system of mutual defense... The city was one of the first
in the U.S. to establish a commercial airport (1919)." It is also
a site of the first railroad in America that ran between Albany and Schenectady,
a distance of 11 miles.
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