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The History of America Flows Through the Hudson River, and the Country’s Aquatic Superhighway Is on the Rebound

For millennia before steamships busied the river’s waters, Native Americans roved it in dugout canoes, spearing sturgeons known to fly into the air like birds. The Hudson River’s restless ribbon cuts ...
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The history of the Hudson River Valley : from the Civil War to modern times / Vernon Benjamin

The age of sheen. The valley that is a door -- A new world -- Romancing the valley -- Great and greater estates -- The Astor orphans -- "My 300 daughters" -- Saratoga truncated -- Rough rider at the ...
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Outside New York City, history lies along the Hudson River

19TH CENTURIES, THE HUDSON RIVER, EVEN JUST ABOVE NEW YORK CITY, WAS STILL FAIRLY QUIET, PASTORAL AND UNDEVELOPED. THAT CHANGED WITH THE ADVENT OF THE RAILROADS, AND IT CHANGED FAR MORE WITH THE ...
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Hudson event explores women’s lives during city’s whaling era

Hudson would not exist as it does today if not for two 18th-century Nantucket whalers, Thomas and Seth Jenkins. When the British started harassing whalers during the Revolutionary War, the Jenkins ...