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Pollepel Island. Coordinates: 41°27′19″N 73°59′20″W. The island and castle viewed from atop Breakneck Ridge. Pollepel Island / pɒlɪˈpɛl / is a 6.5-acre (26,000 m 2) uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
Park Island, also called Island Park – a former island that hosted the Albany County Agricultural Fair in 1865, had a racetrack in 1866, and an addition of a baseball diamond and clubhouse in 1885. [3] Pollepel Island, known for Bannerman's Castle serving as a tourist attraction within the Hudson Valley.
Bannerman's Castle, also known as Bannerman's Island Arsenal, Hudson River, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, built 1901–18. The structure was built as a military surplus warehouse in the style of a Romanesque castle by businessman Francis Bannerman. An explosion in 1920 destroyed a portion of the complex.
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In 2012 the castle and grounds were leased from the Duchy of Cornwall by the landscape designers Julian and Isabel Bannerman, who created a garden there. [9] In 2019 the lease was bought by interior designers Frieda Gormley and Javvy M Royle, co-founders of House of Hackney, who ran the castle as a pop-up hotel [10] and redesigned the interiors ...
Added to NRHP. January 27, 1983. The Buckner site ( 15BB12) is a Middle Fort Ancient culture (1200 to 1400 CE) archaeological site located in Bourbon County, Kentucky on Strodes Creek. It has two large circular village areas, each surrounding its own central plaza and several smaller special use areas to the north and northeast of the site. [2]
National Park System units are found in all 50 states, in the District of Columbia, and in the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. (The territory of the Northern Mariana Islands has an affiliated area but not an official NPS unit.)
He gets access to Castle Williams on Governor's Island, an isolated stronghold from the 19th century that once saved New York City, uncovers the ruins of Bannerman's Castle on Pollepel Island, the fantasy island arsenal of the biggest arms dealer on earth, canoes through a tugboat and ferry graveyard in Staten Island, and investigates Long ...