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Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885. The house was maintained as a shrine to U.S. Grant following his death by the Mount McGregor ...
The First Baptist Church of Mumford and First Presbyterian Church of Mumford are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]The Genesee Country Village & Museum [2] contains a model historic village preserving local architecture, a nature center, model gardens, and sporting art and carriage museums.
Sterling Forest State Park is a 22,180-acre (89.8 km 2) state park [5] located in the Ramapo Mountains in Orange County, New York. Established in 1998, it is among the larger additions to the New York state park system in the last 50 years.
The wind chill at Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York reached a frigid minus 114 degrees Fahrenheit over the weekend.
The Strathglass Park District, located in Rumford, Maine, encompasses what was once one of the nation's finest early 20th-century mill worker housing complexes.Funded by Hugh J. Chisholm, owner of Rumford's paper mill, and designed by Cass Gilbert, the district originally encompassed a collection of 51 high quality brick duplexes, of 5 similar yet varied syles, which were built in 1901-2 on a ...
New York: 1270 670 600 90 21 7 $57 December 10, 2019 West Mountain: Glens Falls: New York: 1,470 460 1,010 124 30 7 80 $79 December 10, 2019 [413] Willard Mountain: Greenwich: New York: 1,415 910 505 50 16 5 80 $47 December 10, 2019 [414] Toggenburg Mountain Ski Center: Fabius: New York: 2,000 1,300 700 85 22 5 130 $57 December 10, 2019 [415 ...
The Catskills had already been displaced as New York's highest mountains by the Adirondacks‘ Mount Marcy and other High Peaks there; in 1879 Princeton geology professor Arnold Guyot, a regular summer guest at the Mountain House since the Civil War, announced that not only were the so-called "Shandaken Mountains" in Ulster County to the ...
The Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge is located on the south shore of Long Island and is one of the undeveloped estuary systems on Long Island. In 1947, Maurice Wertheim donated 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) on eastern Long Island to the United States government; the donated land subsequently became the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge.