Download or read book Palisades Interstate Park 1900 1960 written by Palisades Interstate Park Commission (New York and New Jersey) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 128 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 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 Scenic and Historic America written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Harriman State Park written by Ronnie Clark Coffey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once home to Native Americans and mountain settlers, Harriman State Park is today a 73 square-mile wilderness and recreation area lying 30 miles north of New York City. Offering over 200 miles of hiking trails, swimming, boating, fishing, and camping, it has been an oasis for city dwellers for 100 years. During the 1800s, the land was home to hardworking farmers, miners, and woodcutters. As the new century dawned, it evolved into a park of stunning beauty. Part of the Palisades Interstate Park System, it is the second largest state park in New York.
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.
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Download or read book Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York written by New York (State). Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Creating The Cloisters written by Timothy Husband and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scenic and Historic America written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual for Use of the Legislature of the State of New York written by New York (State). Secretary's Office and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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