THE HUDSON

Three Centuries of

History, Romance and Invention

BY WALLACE BRUCE

Centennial Edition

Published by
BRYANT UNION COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright 1907 by Wallace Bruce

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CONTENTS

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CENTENNIAL GREETING.

  PAGE 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  

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#p34" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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  

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#p60" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#page92" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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  

class="contents pginternal" href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#p130-1" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

class="contents pginternal" href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#page169" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17823@[email protected]#page198" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">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

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ROBERT FULTON'S "CLERMONT" 1807

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1907—1909

CENTENNIAL GREETING

Hendrick Hudson and Robert Fulton are closely associated in the history of our river, and more particularly at this time, as the dates of their achievements unite the centennial of the first successful steamer in 1807, with the tri-centennial of the discovery of the river in 1609. In fact, these three centuries of navigation, with rapidly increasing development in later years, might be graphically condensed—

"Half Moon," 1609; "Clermont," 1807;

"Hendrick Hudson," 1906.

Singularly enough the discovery of Hendrick Hudson, and the invention of Robert Fulton are also similar in having many adverse claimants who forget the difference between attempt and accomplishment.

Everyone knows that Verrazano entered the Narrows and harbor of our river in 1524, and sailed far enough to see the outline of the Palisades; that Gomez visited its mouth in 1525; Cabot still earlier in 1498; and various Norsemen, named and nameless, for several centuries before them, coasted along the shore and indenture of the "River of the Manhattoes," but failed to acquire or transmit any knowledge of the river's real course or character, and it was left for Hendrick Hudson to be its first voyager and thereby to have and [page 8] to hold against all comers the glory of discovery.

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