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(0)Anthony P Musso
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Publisher
Anthony P. Musso
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"While New York's Catskill Mountains region remains a popular destination for snow skiing, hunting, trout fishing and hiking, its history as a booming summer resort, which began in the nineteenth century and continued through a period when a portion of it was known as the Borsch Belt, stimulated the construction of a number of structures that today serve as remnants of an earlier time. While that era is mostly extinct now, railroads that once transported...
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Language
English
Description
"The tranquil environment of New York’s Hudson Valley is the site of both peaceful rural communities and single-family housing developments. Tourists visit the area’s historic Gilded Age mansions, elaborate gardens, Revolutionary War battlefields, and many other points of interest. Yet some of the Hudson Valley’s heritage includes more harrowing tales. From the late nineteenth century through 1950, one otherwise industrious city earned the distinction...