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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 ...
A 2006 survey, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, of the 2000 - 2004 Preserve NYS grant recipients found that funds supplied by the Preservation League “lead directly to the rehabilitation of historic places, leverage significant additional resources (cash and in-kind), and protect properties at the local, state and national ...
Wentworth made the first grant, Bennington, a township west of the Connecticut River, on January 3, 1749.Cautioned by New York to cease and desist, Wentworth promised to await the judgment of the king, and refrain from making more grants in the claimed territory until it was rendered, but in November 1753, New York reported that he continued to grant land in the disputed area.
Rumford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. Rumford is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 5,858 at the 2020 census. [2] Rumford is home to both ND Paper Inc's Rumford Mill and the Black Mountain of Maine ski resort.
New York State Forests are public lands administered by the Division of Lands and Forests of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). New York State Forests are designated as reforestation, multiple use, and unique areas; and state nature and historic preserves, with approximately 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2 ...
Cranberry Mountain: Putnam: 467 acres (1.89 km 2) Cross Lake Islands: Cayuga, Onondaga: 27 acres (0.11 km 2) Crumhorn Mountain: Otsego: Currans Road Pond: Suffolk: Curtiss Gale: Oswego: 47 acres (0.19 km 2) Deer Creek Marsh: Oswego: 1,770 acres (7.2 km 2) Part of the "Eastern Lake Ontario Barrier Beach and Wetland Complex" New York Natural ...
The Northeast Wilderness Trust is a non-profit conservation organization based in Montpelier, Vermont, working to preserve and restore forest landscapes in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Its mission is to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people. It was founded in 2002. [1]
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 ...