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The hamlet of Sugar Loaf, New York, was founded in the late 1740s as a waypoint along Kings Highway. Businesses supplied food and other goods, and horses to travelers. Local historian Dr. Richard Hull writes about the name: It is still not certain how Sugar Loaf acquired its name.
Mount Defiance is an 840 ft (260 m) high hill on the New York side of Lake Champlain, in the northeastern United States. It is notable in that the hill militarily dominates both Fort Ticonderoga and Mount Independence, but it was deemed inaccessible so never fortified. Mount Defiance was previously known as Sugar Loaf. [2]
Sugarloaf is a summit in Herkimer County, New York and partly in Hamilton County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains. It is located southeast of Little Rapids in the Town of Webb . Mount Tom is located north-northwest of Sugarloaf.
Sugarloaf Mountain is a mountain located in Greene County, New York.The mountain is part of the Devil's Path range of the Catskill Mountains.To the northwest, Sugarloaf is separated from Plateau Mountain by Mink Hollow Notch; to the southeast, Sugarloaf is separated from Twin Mountain by Pecoy Notch.
An actual sugarloaf, after which many mountains are named.. The name Sugarloaf or Sugar Loaf applies to numerous raised topographic landforms worldwide: mountains, hills, peaks, summits, buttes, ridges, rock formations, bornhardt, inselberg, etc. Landforms resembling the characteristic conical shape of a sugarloaf were often so named.
Defending the fort and the associated outer works would require all the troops currently there, leaving none to defend Sugar Loaf. [21] Furthermore, George Washington and the Congress were of the opinion that Burgoyne, who was known to be in Quebec, was more likely to strike from the south, moving his troops by sea to New York City. [22]
Orange County announced it has approved the purchase of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Chester and will develop and open it as a new public park Orange County purchases Sugar Loaf Mountain, plans to ...
Sugarloaf Hill is a 785 ft (239 m) peak along the Hudson River in Putnam County, New York, part of the Hudson Highlands. It was named by the Dutch for its resemblance in outline to a sugarloaf when sailing up the river towards it.