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Aerial view of the town of Bedford along with neighboring towns of Mount Kisco, Bedford Hills and Katonah.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.4 square miles (102.1 km 2), of which 37.2 square miles (96.3 km 2) is land and 2.2 square miles (5.8 km 2), or 5.70%, is water. [12]
Map of Rensselaers Wyck anno 1630 with Fort Orange Map of Castle Island and Fort Orange in 1629. In 1624, a ship with 30 Protestant Walloons (people from what is today southern Belgium) landed in New Netherland; 18 of the men were sent to the location near present-day Albany.
Castleton-on-Hudson is a village located in the southwestern part of the town of Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,473 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] The village is southeast of Albany .
The 1984 Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, also called "The Westchester Boomerang", [2] were UFO sightings that stretched throughout 1983–1984 [3] in New York and Western Connecticut. Pilots flew Cessna 152s in tight formation with bright lights that could change colors.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
Sunnyside (1835) is an historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York.It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820).
This list is of past and present islands in the Hudson River and their locations; Adams Island, within the city of Troy, New York, Hudson River on both sides, it is east of Center Island, the Collar City Bridge carries NY Route 7 over the island's southern tip; Bear Island, [1] a former island in Bethlehem, New York
Montgomery Place, now Bard College: The Montgomery Place Campus, near Barrytown, New York, United States, is an early 19th-century estate that has been designated a National Historic Landmark.