Bridge at Remagen Stone

This stone was part of the piers supporting

the historic Ludendorff Bridge which

once spanned the Rhine River at

Remagen, Germany. A forward patrol of

the US 9th Armored Division captured

the bridge in a surprise attack on

March 7, 1945, thereby aiding the Allies

with a ...

The Velodrome Story

24 Acres and a Vision

The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, the most celebrated velodrome in modern American cycling history, traces its roots to the dream of one inspired visionary and its legendary success to the dreams of countless champions who began ...

Steedman's Division - Granger's Corps.

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman.

Steedman's Division - Granger's Corps.

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman.

Sep. 20, 1863, 2 to 6 P.M.

1st Brigade - Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker.

2nd Brigade - Col. John C. Mitchell.

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This division arrived in rear of Snodgrass House at ...

Sections of the “Old Stone Road”

          These two grooved sections of bluestone were once part of the “Stone Road” which was installed on the dirt roads that ran from the bluestone quarries in the Catskills, not far from Kingston, to ...

Enlisted Men

Both Union Soldiers training at Ft. Warren and Confederate prisoners of war were quartered along this side of the fort, often in adjoining rooms. his area also contained a schoolroom, 1900-volume library, and a chapel which was used almost daily ...

Home of Clara Pendleton Blanchard

1843-1931

For 40 years Clara sailed, first with her father at age nine, then with her husband, Captain William Blanchard, aboard 13 vessels in all. She enjoyed one of the longest documented lives at sea and sailed to all parts of ...

Rondout

Once a handful of homes and storehouses known as Kingston Landing, this area grew rapidly with the D and H Canal. Shipyards, foundries, stone quarries and brick yards sprouted along the Rondout Creek attracting Irish and German immigrants. The ...

The West Strand

This row of nineteenth buildings is all that remains of a once thriving river port commercial center. The Mansion House at the corner of Broadway, once a 100 room stage stop and hotel, offered modest accommodations to travelers and ...

The Rondout Creek Suspension Bridge

Between the 1840’s and early 1920’s ferries were used to transport people and vehicles across the Rondout Creek. The last was a chain ferry affectionately nicknamed the “Skillypot”, Dutch for tortoise, apt for both its appearance and speed. This ...

The Delaware and Hudson Canal

The Rondout Creek at this site provided the tidewater terminal for the D and H Canal, a constructed water-way of 108 miles, completed in 1828. Starting at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, hundreds of flat canal boats carried millions of tons of ...