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The Hudson River Historic District, also known as Hudson River Heritage Historic District, is the largest Federally designated district on the mainland of the contiguous United States. [3] It covers an area of 22,205 acres (34.6 square miles, 89 km 2) extending inland roughly a mile (1.6 km) from the east bank of the Hudson River between ...
Historic Hudson Valley. Historic Hudson Valley is a not-for-profit educational and historic preservation organization headquartered in Tarrytown, New York. The organization runs tours and events at five historic properties in Westchester County, in the lower Hudson River Valley. [1]
Biography. Near Noroton Connecticut (1875) Johnson was born in New York City, New York. He studied for two years at the antique school of the National Academy of Design and also studied briefly with the Hudson River artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. Along with John Frederick Kensett and John William Casilear, he was best known for the development ...
September 30, 1982. Location. The Bear Mountain Bridge, ceremonially named the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, [4] is a toll suspension bridge in New York State. It carries US 6 and US 202 across the Hudson River between Bear Mountain State Park in Orange County [5] and Cortlandt in Westchester County.
Among the initial attempts to clean up the upper Hudson River was the removal in 1977–78 of 180,000 cubic yards (140,000 m 3) of contaminated river sediments near Fort Edward. In 1984, EPA declared a 200-mile (320 km) stretch of the river, from Hudson Falls to New York City, to be a Superfund site requiring cleanup. This hazardous waste site ...
Hudson River Museum. / 40.9540; -73.8963. The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. [2] The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948. While often considered an art museum by the public, due to the extensive collection of Hudson ...
Noelker and Hull. The Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park is located in the town of Hyde Park, New York, between the Hudson River and U.S. Route 9. The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) campus offers associate and bachelor's degrees and certificate programs in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts.
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. State police reported that the pilots expressed amusement at the confusion ...