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Topics include:

Daniel Butterfield   ~ Julia Butterfield  ~ Boscobel ~ Bannerman’s Island  ~ Constitution Island & the Warner Sisters  ~ West Point Foundry & Parrott Gun  ~ Hudson River and Invasive Species  ~ James Haldane  ~ Dick’s Castle  ~ Castle Rock  ~

 

Recommended Books:
Phantoms of the Hudson Valley: The Glorious Estates of a Lost Era by Monica Randall
Hudson Heritage: An Artist’s Perspective on Architecture by Karl Beckwith Smith III
Highland Sketches: The Hudson River in the Eye of the Beholder by William Cullen
 Bryant II
A River for the Living: The Hudson and Its People by Jack Hope
The Hudson River by Daniel Harmon
The Hudson River Guidebook by Arthur G. Adams
The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River by Stephen P. Stanne, Roger
 Panetta, Brian E. Forist
The Hudson from Wilderness to the Sea by Benson J. Lossing
The Hudson: A History by Tom Lewis
The Story of a River by Robert Baron and Thomas Locker
The Hudson River Highlands by Francis F. Dunwell
Centennial of the United Methodist Church, Cold Spring, N.Y. by Nelson DeLanoy
Images of America: Bannerman’s Castle by Thom Johnson and Barbara H. Gottlock
A Few Citizens of Philipstown by Margery O. Erickson

Video:
The West Point Foundry Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum

CD:
Genealogy and History of Putnam County, New York: Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum

Pamphlets:

• The Story of Bannerman Island, Hudson River, N.Y.   The Bannerman Castle Trust

The Constitution Island Association Annual Report and Yearbook 1939.     

The Constitution Island Association

The Constitution Island Association Annual Report and Yearbook 1948.     

The Constitution Island Association

The Constitution Island Association Annual Report and Yearbook 1952 and 1953. 

The Constitution Island Association

• The Fort That Never Was: Constitution Island in the Revolutionary War.

       Merle G. Sheffield 1969

• Thirty Years of Early History of Cold Spring and Vicinity, with Incidents. By One who has been a resident since 1819, by M. Wilson 1886
• The Origin And Development of Cold Spring-on-Hudson 1846-1946: A Centennial History
• Garrison Town: The British Occupation of NYC 1776-1783 by William A. Polf
• Henry Hudson: Discoverer of the Hudson River 1609, by W.M. Williamson,

Marine Curatar

• Hudson River Almanac. Hudson River Estuary Program. NYSDEC
• George Pope Morris 1802-1864 by Marguerite W. Rodgers and Nelson DeLanoy, Co-Chairman of the Historic Landmarks Committee, 1964
• The Centennial Anniversary of Nelsonville: Origin and Development Putnam County Historical Society
• Philip Who?  A Capsule History of Philipstown by Gretchen Sprague
• Putnam Country History Local Historical Research. Study No.1, 1969. Putnam Country Historical Society

Historical Putnam County Foreword by Frederic W. Shaw, Putnam County Historian

• A Short History of Saint Philip’s Church in the Highlands 1770-1970, by William S. Reisman, A.B. B.D.
• George Washington in the Highlands: or some unwritten History by Hamilton Fish, Jr.
• The West Point Foundry & The Parrott Gun: A Short History by Charles R. Isleib and Jack Chard

Websites

 

Daniel Butterfield

http://www.west-point.org/taps/Taps.html
http://www.falmr.org/btrfld.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Butterfield
http://www.civilwarhome.com/butterfieldbio.htm
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12318

Julia Butterfield

http://www.butterfieldlibrary.org/History_Page.html
http://suvcw.org/ny/camps/worden/projects/Butterfield-James%20Crypt/Butterfield-James%20Crypt.htm

 

Boscobel

http://www.boscobel.org/
Hudson Heritage: An Artist’s Perspective on Architecture, by Karl Beckwith Smith III

Bannerman Island

The Story of Bannerman Island Hudson River, NY   The Bannerman Castle Trust
Images of America: Bannerman’s Castle by Thom Johnson and Barbara H. Gottlock
Phantoms of the Hudson Valley: The Glorious Estates of a lost Era, by Monica Randall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannerman's_Castle
http://www.oboylephoto.com/bannermans/index.htm
http://www.hudsonriver.com/bannerman.htm

Constitution Island and The Warner Sisters

http://www.constitutionisland.org/
http://hhr.highlands.com/constit.htm
http://hhr.highlands.com/constit.htm
http://www.lynchburgtours.com/Lynchburg%20Historic%20Tours%20-%20A%20Window%20Into%20Old%20Virginia%20-%20Constitution%20Island%20Talk%20-%20island.htm
http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute9/coldspring/default.htm
http://www.hvgateway.com/CONSTISL.HTM
http://www.usma.edu/publicaffairs/womenatwp/chronologyofsigeventsforwomenatusma.htm

The West Point Foundry and Parrott Gun

http://www.hvgateway.com/CS03.HTM
http://www.pcnr.com/news/2005/0526/Front_Page/019.html
www.scenichudson.org

The Hudson River and Invasive Species

http://www.ecostudies.org/images/newsletter/03-04_2003.pdf
http://www.ecostudies.org/people_sci_strayer_zebra_mussels.html
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/hudson/slides/slide32.html
www.scenichudson.org

James Haldane

Scroll down to the Haldane CSD page.
http://www2.lhric.org/wpsba/facts__figure.htm

Dick’s Castle

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/NY3189/

Castle Rock

http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NY/Putnam/districts.html
http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/0201491c.pdf
http://www.sevenson.com/exp_marathon.php3
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/fc.2.metal.history.html

General Hudson Valley History
www.hudsonrivervalley.org