History, Romance and Invention
Reading edition
BY WALLACE BRUCE
Centennial Edition
Published by BRYANT UNION COMPANY NEW YORK
Copyright 1907 by Wallace Bruce
CONTENTS
CENTENNIAL GREETING.
PAGE
History, Romance and Invention 9-39
An Open Book 10
The Hudson and the Rhine 11
The Half Moon 12
Its Discovery 15
First Description 16
Names of the Hudson 18
Hills and Mountains 19
Sources of the Hudson 19
First Settlement 20
The West India Company 21
Original Manors and Patents 23
New Amsterdam 23
The Dutch and the English 24
New York 27
A Page of Patriotism 28
Sons of Liberty 28
Greater New York 30
Hudson River Steamboats 31
Day Line Steamers 34
The Old Reaches 38
Five Divisions of the Hudson 39
NEW YORK TO ALBANY.
Desbrosses Street Pier to Forty-Second Street 41-43
Historic River Front 41
A Great Panorama 41
Statue of Liberty—Stevens Castle 42
Forty-Second to One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth 43-48
Weehawken, Hamilton and Burr 43
Riverside Drive and Park 45
Columbia University 46
General Grant's Tomb 46
One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth St. to Yonkers 49-50
Washington Heights 49
The Palisades 52
Island of Manhattan 56
Spuyten Duyvel Creek 57
Yonkers 58
Yonkers to West Point 59-96
Hastings and Dobbs Ferry 60
Tappan Zee and Piermont 61
Irvington and "Sunnyside" 62
Washington Irving 63
The Headless Horseman 66
Tarrytown and Tappan 67
Sleepy Hollow 70
Nyack 72
Ossining 73
Croton River and Reservoir 74
Haverstraw 75
Stony Point 77
Peekskill 79
Story of Captain Kidd 80
The Highlands 81
Dunderberg 82
Anthony's Nose 83
Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery 84
Beverley House 87
Arnold's Flight 88
Buttermilk Falls 91
West Point Military Academy 92
Plateau Buildings and Memorials 93-94
Fort Putnam 95
West Point to Newburgh 97-103
Northern Gate of Highlands 98
"Undercliff" 99
Storm King 100
Cornwall and "Idlewild" 102
Newburgh to Poughkeepsie 104-128
Washington's Headquarters 104
Refusing the Crown 105
Suffering of Soldiers 106
Cessation of Hostilities 107
Marquis de Lafayette 109
Centennial Celebration 110
Fishkill 113
Duyvel's Dans Kammer 118
"Locust Grove" 119
The Storm Ship 120
Poughkeepsie 121
Poughkeepsie to Kingston 129-146
Hyde Park 130
Mount Hymettus 130
Rhinecliff 135
City of Kingston 136
The Senate House 138
The Southern Catskills 142
Kingston to Catskill 147-168
Montgomery Place 147
Story of Steam Navigation 149
Robert Fulton 151
The "Clermont" 152
Tivoli 154
Saugerties 156
The Livingston Country 157
The "Shad Industry" 158
Germantown 160
Man in the Mountain 160
New York City Water Supply 162
The Clover Reach 163
Catskill 164
Otis Elevating Railway 165
Catskill to Hudson 169-172
Hudson 169
Columbia Springs 170
Claverack and Hillsdale 171
Hudson to Albany 173-185
Athens 173
The Ice Industry 173
Anthony Van Corlear 176
The Mahican Tribe 177
The Mahicans, Delawares and Iroquois 178
The Old Van Rensselaer House 180
Albany 181
THE UPPER HUDSON.
Albany to Saratoga 186-191
Saratoga 187
Historic Saratoga 189
Mount McGregor 190
Saratoga to the Adirondacks 191-201
Saratoga to Lake George 192
Lake George to the Adirondacks 197-201
Ticonderoga 198
Bluff Point 199
Plattsburgh and the Saranacs 201
Source of the Hudson 202-210
The Tahawas Club 202
The Upper Ausable 203
Haystack and Camp Colden 204
The Deserted Village 205
Indian Pass 206
Tahawas 210
Geology, Tides and Condensed Points 211-224
Geological Formation 211-215
The Hudson Tide 215
Condensed Points—New York to Albany 216-224
ROBERT FULTON'S "CLERMONT" 1807
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