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| king_memoir_1843_raw.txt | 217 | 172,824 | |
| hudson_river_source_raw.txt | 191 | 152,169 | |
| aqueduct_board_minutes_raw.txt | 136 | 108,070 | |
| croton_point_sampling_2021_raw.txt | 134 | 106,888 | |
| illustrations_aqueduct_raw.txt | 66 | 52,703 | |
| croton_waterworks_raw.txt | 60 | 47,579 | |
| comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt | 58 | 46,131 | |
| old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt | 50 | 39,768 | |
| croton_point_landfill_rod_1993_raw.txt | 23 | 18,214 | |
| housing_taskforce_report_raw.txt | 21 | 16,692 | |
| croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt | 14 | 11,057 | |
| comp_plan_ch2_history_raw.txt | 5 | 3,670 | |
| housing_proposals_2024_raw.txt | 3 | 1,831 | |
| coastal_zone_waterfront_raw.txt | 1 | 246 |
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engaged his pen in later years. James Kirke Paulding, his senior by several years, was his guide and friend, if not philosopher; and it is not improbable that the people of the neighbourhood, who have conjured for half a century by Geoffrey Crayon's …
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not a stroke of work done in the village that day. The shoemaker abandoned his awl, the hatter his bowstring, the tailor his goose, and the forge of the blacksmith was cool from dawn till nightfall. Silent was the sonorous harmony of the big spinning…
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knew it, to present a rather forlorn appearance. Mr. Irving made good dra- matic use of this tree in his Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but it is likely enough he had not seen it when he wrote the story. . . . While I was at school at Tarrytown, Mr. Irving…
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you a book and a tree." A whimsical picture he drew of his first reading of Scott's Lady of the Lake, while he was at the Hoffmans' home on the Hudson in 18 10: " Seated leaning against a rock, with a wild-cherry tree over my head, reading Scott's La…
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peacock's feathers," or rather like a " strawberry smoth- ered in cream "! The mode of living at the Manor is exactly after my own heart. You have every variety of rural amuse- ment within your reach, and are left to yourself to occupy your time as y…
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gleam in, With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. He sang of the Hudson in an exalted strain, in verse that may sound formal and, perhaps, a little pedantic to our modern ears; but the fashions change in fifty or sixty y…
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companions upon that occasion being Bryant and Halleck. We may be permitted one further quotation from this representative Hudson River poet. It is from a short poem called Indian Summer, written in 1828: Light as love's smiles, the silvery mist at m…
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lovely sight To see the puny goblin there ; He seem'd an angel form of light. With azure wing and sunny hair, Throned on a cloud of purple fair. Circled with blue and edged with white, And sitting at the fall of even Beneath the bow of summer heaven.…
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it? it is only an idle wild.' I did not tell him, but I bought it and you see what I have done with it, and that I was indebted to my Dutch prede- cessor for a very pretty and appropriate name." Irving, Halleck, and numerous other friends of Wil- lis…
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I of his integrity of mind, that I would refer any one to him for an honest account of me, sooner than to almost any one else. Mr. Verplanck 's ancestral home was at Fishkill-on- the- Hudson. There his last years were spent under the roof that his gr…
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gularly pure and stainless character." He also was a lawyer as well as a student and man of letters, and was a " Hudson- Riverite " by virtue of long residence. His grave lies in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarry- town, a short distance to the nor…
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in the literary associations of the Hudson, for his work was mainly the result of thirty years of sojourn and study among the redskins upon the frontier. John Romeyn Brodhead, the patient compiler of the ten great tomes that contain transcripts of al…
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Church at Rhinebeck. He will be remembered as a scholarly man of sweet, rare character. His contributions to Christian hymnology possibly constitute his chief claim to remembrance, though he devoted nearly twenty years of his life to public speaking …
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during the half century since its first issue. Some hundreds of thousands of copies were sold in European editions, which brought to the writer fame, if not wealth. The sisters frequently worked together. The younger, who had chosen Amy Lathrop as he…
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is sixty miles distant. Next door to Cherry Croft is Julian Hawthorne's summer home, and nearer the foot of the hill Hves Dr. Lyman Abbott, at whose house, it need hardly be suggested, Hamilton Wright Mabie is a famihar visitor. Mr. Mabie is him- sel…
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the distance one sees a massive group of low, marble buildings, the melancholy residence of convicts, — it is the State prison at Sing Sing. It is natural, but unfortunate, that the fair fame of one of the most attractive of Hudson River towns should…
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a new aqueduct, commenced in 1884 and finished in 1890, was constructed to the east of the earlier one. This has a capacity three times as great as the first, and taps the numerous lakes of a water- shed embracing between three and four hundred squar…
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side of the river, on the twenty-second of September, 1780, Major Andre saw the war-ship Vulture drop down the river to escape a galling fire from Teller's Point. Fresh from his interview with Arnold, the British spy was anxious to return to New York…
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himself a native wife, by whom he had one child. On the summit of High Taur he built an altar, refusing the sun worship of the Indians; but they were enraged, and set upon and would have killed him had not a miracle saved him. An earthquake swallowed…
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be excelled by any action in our history. The British had retired from Philadelphia; Wash- ington's army had passed through the trying experi- ence of Valley Forge, and Monmouth had been fought. Now the old struggle for supremacy on the Hudson was re…
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Absolute silence was enjoined, and like spectres the two storming parties faded from each other's sight in the gloom. The marshes were over- flowed with two feet of water, and through this the men followed their officers, eager and alert, for the obj…
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inst, General Wayne with a party of infantry attacked the enemy's works at Stony Point — the garrison consisted of about six hundred men — it being the dead of night they were not discovered until they had got within about sixteen rods of the works, …
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but I will not myself break those orders." He then showed Lee General Washing- ton's letter of instructions, upon which his visitor made some-comrQent to the effect that being upon the ground he would feel at liberty to act according to his own judgm…
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was atten- tive to a young woman named Teed whose brother was a loyalist. Upon one of his frequent visits to the home of his lady-love, he was set upon by a number of Tories and forced to seek refuge in a barn, from which he fired upon his assailants…
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anchor near the foot of the mountain, but found, when he wished to resume his course, that his anchor's flukes were caught in something heavy that could not be detached from the bottom withoiit great effort. However, yielding to the persuasion of the…
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quifetly as if in a mill-pond. Nothing saved her from utter' wreck but the fortunate circum- stance of -having a horse-shoe nailed against the miast — a wise precaution against evil spirits, s\nce adopted by all the Dutch captains that navigate this …
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the defence- less reaches of the river above the Highlands, where the enemy might not only ravage the country, but destroy the little fleet that was then being built at Poughkeepsie. He therefore placed a guard at a point nearly midway between the ve…
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months after the excitement caused by this "eruption of the Phcenix and the Rose into the quiet waters of the Hudson ' ' had begun to subside in a measure, we find the war-ships again brushing past the American defences at Fort Washington. The new ve…
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on the road to Continental Village, where the stores had been sent, and occupied a strong post that Washington had noted in his reconnoissance after the battle of White Plains in the previous autumn. Colonel Willett hastened to McDougall's relief fro…
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his civil duties as Governor, received this urgent letter at Kingston, and at once hastened to the High- lands, collecting all the militia that he could, more effectually to man the defences. Irving has given the following description of the forts at…