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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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ful tragedies that the history of steamboating presents. In 1852, this popular boat, while making her regular run and crowded with passengers, was discovered to be on fire. She was headed for the shore at Riverdale and ran hard aground near the wharf…
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the patient husband sees the faithless messenger pass with a glass of lemonade, having utterly forgotten him and the lady in the black bonnet and gray eyes, who may be, for ought he knows to the contrary, wringing her hands at this moment on the whar…
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the Civil War, " once the seat of the Apthorpe family." The Apthorpe mansion stood at the corner of 9 1 st Street and Columbus Avenue. Wash- ington had his headquarters here for a very brief time. The de Lancey house, the property of General Oliver d…
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Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® Riverside to Inwood 147 John the Divine is now (1902) being erected, on a site covering three city blocks, from iioth to 113th Streets. The corner-stone was laid in 1892, and possibly most of the present generation …
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is the former village known to its residents as Manhattan ville. A steel viaduct spans the Manhattan Valley and connects Riverside Drive with the Harlem Speedway. At Man- hattanville, on 128th Street, near St. Nicholas Avenue, is the celebrated conve…
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Manhattan in modern times, few have reached the eminence attained by the celebrated lawyer, Charles O'Conor, of whom Judge Charles P Daly said: "He has filled a place in the jurisprudence of this State greater than that of any lawyer who has ever liv…
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remain in peace for a little time, and doubt not we have assigned suffi- cient reasons for avoiding at present, a dilemma, in which the entrance of a large body of troops into the city, will almost certainly involve us. Should you have such an entran…
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for the Americans to do what the British had planned to do; that is, to fortify the highlands of the river. It is interesting to contemplate what might have been the course of American history if Clinton's fleet, upon its arrival from Boston, had not…
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it not very strange, that those invincible troops, who were to destroy and lay waste all this country with their fleets and army, are so fond of islands and peninsulas, and dare not put their feet on the main? But, I hope, by the blessing of God and …
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reducing it to ashes, while others protested vehemently against such drastic meas- ures. Acting upon the theory that the enemy would follow his recent successes by further aggression, the Commander-in-chief ordered that all of the sick and Digitized …
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after dark upon the heights of Harlem. From Bayard Hill Fort, which was on what is now Grand Street, the line of retreat was, according to the best evidence, across country to the neighbourhood of Greenwich village, and then by way of the road that w…
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ground was probably more open and the pursuers could get a view of General Greene's force; but they sent after the retreating Connecticut men a message that made their Digitized by Microsoft® The Island and the River in 1776 177 very ears tingle. The…
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American army, while a superior body of British opposed them. The American forces were completely victorious, finally chasing the King's troops down a hill and being recalled with difficulty by order of the Commander-in- chief. This necessarily brief…
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been lying for some time oppo- site Bloomingdale, got under way with their three ten- ders, at 8 o'clock in the morning, and came standing up the river with an easy southern breeze. At their approach, the galleys and the two ships intended to be sunk…
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on account of his reputation, for what has he done as yet, with his great army? While still in doubt as to the meaning of the manoeu- vre, Washington received news of the peril of the Digitized by Microsoft® 1 86 The Hudson River garrison on Manhatta…
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excessively excited. Less discreet historians than Irving have not hesi- tated to say that the Father of his Country on that occasion expressed his excitement in language of much greater vigour than is countenanced by polite custom. In other words, t…
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Fort Wash- ington was therefore surrendered. Thus ended the American occupancy of Manhattan Digitized by Microsoft® Forts Washington and Lee 191 Island. Washington's own reflections upon the closing scene, given in a letter to his brother Augustine, …
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and sympathy overflowed her eyes. " Did the poor man leave a family?" she finally asked. Upon the height behind Spuyten Duyvil there is the place of an old redoubt that occupied about the position of the Indian stronghold of Nipnichsen. A little way …
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height. From the Jersey shore, nearly opposite, the wall of the Palisades rises, one of the strange and imposing features with which nature sometimes surprises the geologist and puzzles the artist. Digitized by Microsoft® From Spuyten Duyvil to Yonke…
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it, that before they could do anything Indian Head was gravel. However, the people succeeded, though apparently with some difficulty, in saving the rest of the Palisades. The blasting and crushing processes which were at once an offence to the ear, t…
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" Colony of Donk," and " De Jonkheer's," or the "Young Lord's," which has been corrupted into Yon- kers. This grant became a manor in 1652 and Van der Digitized by Microsoft® 204 The Hudson River Donk was its Lord for three years, though perhaps he n…
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houses, ^^a single sloop at a small wharf, and the gray walls and roof of a venerable structure, which you may see stretching among the trees parallel with the river, comprised the whole borough. That building is the Philipse Manor house, now occupie…
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of the Tappan Zee and the Palisades to boot in order to be there. Most modern youngsters would be conscious of some slight fatigue after such a pull, but not so dehcate were the Dutchmen of that early day. Rambout Digitized by Microsoft® 212 The Huds…
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rest. She is always flying swiftly before a wind that mortals cannot feel. There is the memory of another craft, more sub- stantial than the phantom ship, and naore successful in attaining a port than Rambout's boat, that made the passage of the rive…
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of the stone that Mr. Field erected as a memorial of the his- toric association of Tappan. Some rampant patriot, with more zeal than propriety, applied an explosive and destroyed it. The place where Nyack stands was once a part of the Philipse manor.…
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ruddy sun- lit morning and the purple-mantled evening. But the people of Yonkers and its vicinity love the Palisades, and were aroused to effective action against the van- dalism that has attempted their demolition. In the case of No- Point the offen…
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the little brook that enters the river here, and afterwards applied it to quite an extensive territory, no antiquary has discovered. y Dobbs had a shanty on Willow Point and eked out his modest living by ferrying chance passengers over the river in h…
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George Clinton, . . . and Sir Guy Carleton . . . met to confer, etc., etc. Both of the statements quoted above are mislead- ing. The house referred to is not the Livingston family- seat, but was acquired by Mr. Van Brugh Livingston about 1823. If any…
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stone church which became world famous as the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, now the oldest church building in use in New York State. Digitized by Microsoft® 232 The Hudson River The Revolutionary history of Tarrytown is in the main that of all o…
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of a mile to the east of it, the trio of scouts were apparently waiting for something to turn up, when they heard the sound of a horse's hoofs and inter- cepted the rider. Forcing him to dismount, they drew him into the bushes and under a tree somewh…
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