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Pollepel Island has been called many different names, including Pollopel Island, Pollopel's Island, Bannerman's Island, [1] and Bannermans' Island. [2] [3] Pollepel is a Dutch word meaning " ladle" The island is about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City [4] and about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the Hudson River's eastern bank. [3]
Bannerman's Castle, also known as Bannerman's Island Arsenal, Hudson River, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, built 1901–18. The structure was built as a military surplus warehouse in the style of a Romanesque castle by businessman Francis Bannerman. An explosion in 1920 destroyed a portion of the complex.
Park Island, also called Island Park – a former island that hosted the Albany County Agricultural Fair in 1865, had a racetrack in 1866, and an addition of a baseball diamond and clubhouse in 1885. [3] Pollepel Island, known for Bannerman's Castle serving as a tourist attraction within the Hudson Valley.
Bannerman Castle. Cold Spring, New York. On New York’s Hudson River is a 6.5-acre island called Pollepel Island. On it, lies Bannerman Castle, built by Francis Bannerman who built it in the ...
In the spring of 1778, a heavy chain supported by huge log rafts was stretched across the Hudson from West Point to Constitution Island to impede the movement of British ships north of West Point. A second log boom (resembling a ladder in construction) spanned the river about 100 yards (90 m) downstream to absorb the impact of any ship ...
Bannerman's Island is in the front. New Windsor, the city of Newburgh and the bridge are visible, with the Shawangunks and Catskill peaks around Slide Mountain in the distance. Newburgh Bay is a feature of the Hudson River's west bank, located approximately 60 miles (105 km) north of New York City.
Bannerman (surname) Bannerman, a San Francisco-based, technology enabled, security guard company. Bannerman, a loose translation of hatamoto, a direct vassal of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan; A man who belonged to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty; An alternative name of Manchu people
Breakneck Ridge is to the left, Storm King Mountain to the right with Bannerman's Island in the middle of the river and West Point visible in the distance. The Hudson Highlands are mountains on both sides of the Hudson River in New York state lying primarily in Putnam County on its east bank and Orange County on its west.