HISTORY

Haverstraw landslide kills 20 and destroys Suffern-Bear Mt. trail major portion of town due to clay brick completed 1924 completed : Maine to Georgia production accentuating the poor environmental practices of the industrial age The A.T.C. is formed of a The A.T. is made West Point Academy opens Wealthy businessmen continuous again The park bought

1920 mix of volunteers and will train some of the 1802 begin buying huge up the last Henry Hudson first most important leaders in consisting of Major William tracts of land in the Steamboat excursion remaining tracts sails up the river our nation’s history Welch of 's valley for estates as service to Bear Mt. of land at which will later bear Thomas Cole comes to the completed Palisades Interstate Park, 1951 the need for a clean, Doodletown his name which marks established Benton MacKaye and pastoral retreat from the beginning of the Hudson Raymond Torrey. 1609 the dirty city becomes British soldiers used Revolutionary River School of Painting corridors during the popular War ends 1915 In August, The A.T. is 1913 1965 Revolutionary War to 1825 1906 Appalachian Trail fully completed as a Town of Doodletown attack American forts. 1860s Dutch relinquish control of 1783 Committee is formed continuous 2,100 mile George W. and Linn begins to develop These trails still exist all their local settlements The Delaware-Hudson Canal Palisade Interstate Park footpath from Maine to Merck Perkins today and are called Commission Created to to the British 1750 was completed connecting Area population began to Georgia Bridle Path Merry-Go-Round 2001 1777 trials protect the Palisades 1922 the Hudson Valley with decline as farm fertility waned constructed completed

1664 Pennsylvania coal from quarrying 1924 1777 and the country expanded westward 1828 1900 1937 1860s 1600 1700 1800 1850 2000

1775 1825 1875 1900 1925 1975 2004 1750 1950

1849 1938 1777 1809 1620s Late 1600’s 1776 New York and 1900 A hurricane destroys October – Forts much of the A.T. in New 1962 A ship commanded by The First Steamboat trip Railroad reaches Peekskill Naval magazine constructed 1921 The National Trail System Settlement by Revolutionary Montgomery and England and forces 120 Captain Hogans sailed up the Hudson River marks an important change to on Benton MacKaye Act is passed and A.T. Start of citizens’17 - year legal Europeans begins in War begins Clinton were defeated miles of the trail to be up the Hudson River and marketable goods proposes the extensive becomes a national scenic battle against ConEd’s proposal the Lower Hudson by the British, but relocated 1960 idea of a trail along the to build a hydroelectric plant on Valley – Delaware gave Anthonys Nose the provided enough trial under federal ridge crests of the the Hudson begins – the Indians begin to be name it still has today resistance to ensure Mary Harriman, the protection and NPS 1825 Appalachian Mountain beginning of the environmental pushed out of their an American victory at widow of railroad baron contractors are sent out Completion of the Erie Canal, chain and preservation movement in lands Saratoga E.H. Harriman donated to map the trial by air making the Hudson River an 1910 America much of the land to even more important trade 1923 PIPC in 1910 to Perkins Memorial 1779 route and signals the start of Raymond Torrey opens 1934 Tower on the create Bear Mountain Perkins Memorial Drive was industrialization in the valley. the first foot path mountain’s pinnacle American Forces surprise completed, with all its intentionally designed as completed attack and overwhelm the twists and turns, winding 1916 part of the Appalachian British garrison at Stony 1800s Trail in Bear Mountain from up Point. This will be the last A bridge for automobiles State Park, NY 1933 the South side of Bear major battle in the northern Mining of iron ore for metals, marble spanned the Mountain and down its colonies during the war and granite for building and clay for Gorge North side to Route 6 bricks begins to be an important 1927 economic activity 1916 Judge Arthur Perkins takes over leadership The Trailside Museum The remains of the 1927 and ski jump opened Revolutionary War forts, Clinton of the Appalachian and Montgomery, were Trail project from An early sketch of the west acquired as historic sites MacKaye bank of the Hudson River –

Resource: http://www.hhr.highlands.com/ from Stoney Point to Fort Montgomery

Age of Discovery and The Industrialization and Development and European Settlement Expansion of the Changing the Birth of Modern (1609 – 1776) Nation (1783 – 1900) Environmentalism (1960 – Present)

The Colonies become a Development of A.T. M Country – Revolutionary and Bear Mountain War Period (1776 – 1783) Park (1900-1960)

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Hessian Lake Little Known Facts

Hudson River • Two seats on the merry-go-round are handicapped accessible

• During W.W.II era, Jackie Robinson took batting practice at Bear Mountain

• Bear Mountain almost became the new site for the relocation of Sing Sing Prison. The Iona proposal was squashed by including Harriman and the mountain as part of the PIPC. Island • The merry-go-round is made up of native animals to the Hudson River Valley.

• Each main cable of Bear Mountain Bridge was twisted from 7,452 individual galvanized wires. The total length of wire used is 7,377 miles.

Bear Mountain State Park • The Bear Mountain Bridge was used as the prototype for the .

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving was set in the Valley of the Hudson.

Harriman State Park

Legend

Appalachian Trail Perkins Memorial Drive NYC Rail Line • 0 0.5 1 Miles

Resource: /U.S. Department of the Interior Bear Mountain Inn Ski Jumping River Dock EXPLORING THE A.T. AT BEAR MOUNTAIN Resource: “Doodletown: Hiking Through History in a Vanished Hamlet on the Hudson” By Elizabeth Stalter (1996).

COOK COLLEGE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION CHARETTE Stefanie Almodovar Tyler Clark Nicholas Ginther Joseph LaCava Vlad Moskovski Daniel Sgrizzi Alison Beeghly Michael Coraggio Galia Hanoch-Roe Nicholas Laub Daniel P. Nichols Alec Shissias Jason Berks Michael Dwyer Elizabeth Hendrickson Steve LeMoine Andrew O’Toole Nathan Tuno John Carluccio Chuck Gandy Paul Johnson Zainab Miller James Phillips Lauren Weitz Olivier Giron James Morren Tara Piergies DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE NOVEMBER 2004 Benjamin Cassidy Sara Krouskop