Download or read book Annual Report of the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey written by Palisades Interstate Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York s Palisades Interstate Park written by Barbara H. Gottlock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 100 years, the Palisades Interstate Park has provided a haven for citizens of the New York metropolitan area. The park system was originally formed to prevent quarries from desecrating the majestic lower Palisades cliffs. Few of the founders could have envisioned the growth of the parks, as land purchases multiplied northward up the Hudson River Valley. Now with over 100,000 unspoiled acres, the parks offer myriad outdoor recreational activities and historic sites that attract more visitors than many major national parks.
Download or read book New Jersey s Palisades Interstate Park written by E. Emory Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park was created in 1900 to preserve the majestic Palisades of the Hudson River from being defaced by massive stone quarries. In the generations since its creation, it has served as an oasis of beauty, recreation, and tranquility in the midst of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. The park has an archive of over 3,000 images of the Palisades. Photographs show the area decades before the park's creation and through the 1930s and 1940s, when thousands sought recreation as an escape from hard times during the Great Depression and World War II and hundreds of men worked in the park for New Deal agencies.
Download or read book Palisades written by Robert O. Binnewies and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. Palisades: The People’s Park presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. The conflicts between developers and conservationists, industrialists and wilderness enthusiasts, with their opposing views regarding the uses of natural resources required the commissioners of the PIPC to become skilled negotiators, assiduous fundraisers, and savvy participants in the political process. The efforts to create Palisades Interstate Park was prodigious, requiring more than 1,000 real estate transactions to establish Sterling Forest, to save Storm King Mountain, to preserve Lake Minnewaska, to protect Stony Point Battlefield and Washington’s headquarters, to open Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks, and to add the other sixteen parks to the Palisades Interstate Park System. Beginning with the efforts of Elizabeth Vermilye of the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs, who enlisted President Theodore Roosevelt’s support to stop the blasting and quarrying of Palisades rock, author Robert Binnewies traces the story of the famous, including J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harrimans, as well as the not-so-famous men and women whose donations of time and money led to the preservation of New York and New Jersey’s most scenic and historic lands. The park experiment, begun in 1900, still stands as a dynamic model among the nation’s major environmental achievements.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New York (State). Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palisades written by Robert O. Binnewies and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, founded in 1900 to save the cliffs that border the Hudson River, is told by Binnewies, its former executive director. The work is based on extensive archival research carried out by numerous people associated with the PIPC. The commission became the overseer of many parks as well as several historic sites. The story of the fight to save these areas, with all the negotiations, fundraising, personalities, and political struggle involved is told in a clear and detailed narrative. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book The Palisades Interstate Park written by Perley Milton Silloway and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palisades Interstate Park written by Robert Latou Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Park in the World written by Arthur Platts Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report of the Work of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New York (State). Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK A ST written by Edward Fischer 1899 Brown and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book No Place for Normal New York written by Clifford Browder and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From random sightings of the spectral (and spectacular) Rollerena, a fortyish male who would grace onlookers with his fairy godmother benedictions in a cloud of white fabric and rhinestones, to some of the haunts that Charles Dickens frequented during his visits to the city, author Clifford Browder leaves no stone unturned, or for that matter, subject untouched. Topics include (but are not limited to) alcoholics, abortionists, grave robbers, Occupy Wall Street, the Gay Pride Parade, peyote visions, sinners that New Yorkers will (or won't) put up with, and an artist who makes art of a blood-filled squirt gun and a blackened human toe. From the grotesque to the engrossing, No Place for Normal: New York celebrates the shocking, weird, unpredictable, yet utterly wonderful tapestry that makes New York unlike any other city in the world, and a place that so many are proud to call home.
Download or read book AMC s Best Day Hikes Near New York City written by Dan Case and published by Appalachian Mountain Club. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook from the Appalachian Mountain Club's Best Day Hikes Series takes you to 50 of the best short excursions in New York, Connecticut, and Northern New Jersey.
Download or read book The Greatest Park in the World written by Arthur Platts Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
