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The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York at Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between New York City and Jersey City, eventually draining into the Atlantic Ocean at Upper New ...
Breakneck Ridge is a mountain along the Hudson River between Beacon and Cold Spring, New York, straddling the boundary between Dutchess and Putnam counties. Its distinctive rocky cliffs are visible for a long distance when approached from the south, and together with Storm King Mountain on the opposite bank of the river forms Wey-Gat, or Wind Gate, the picturesque northern gateway to the ...
Haverstraw Bay as seen from Haverstraw. Haverstraw Bay, located in New York, is the widest portion of the Hudson River.The width of Haverstraw Bay is approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km), the length approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) from river kilometer 58 (river mile 36) at Croton Point to river kilometer 66 (river mile 41) at Stony Point.
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.Located on the Hudson River in New York, General George Washington stationed his headquarters in West Point in the summer and fall of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War, and later called it "the most important Post in America" in 1781 following the war's end.
Highland Falls station; History of the Hudson River; Holy Cross Monastery (West Park, New York) Hudson Canyon; Hudson Line (Metro-North) Hudson Project; Hudson River bomb plot; Hudson River Chains; Hudson River crash; Hudson river greenway; Hudson River Historic District; Hudson River Maritime Museum; 2009 Hudson River mid-air collision; Hudson ...
The Hudson–Athens Lighthouse, sometimes called the Hudson City light, is a lighthouse located in the Hudson River in the state of New York in the United States. [2] [3] The light is located between Hudson on the east bank and Athens on the west, closer to the Hudson side. Constructed in 1874, it marks a sandy ridge known as Middle Ground ...
Riparius is a hamlet in the Upper Hudson River Valley of Warren County, New York, United States. [1] Riparius was formerly known as Riverside until the state changed the name to prevent confusion with several other places of the same name. "Riparius" is a Latin equivalent for "Riverside". Riparius is located within the towns of Johnsburg and ...
Beacon is a city located on the Hudson River in Dutchess County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 13,769.Beacon is part of the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh metropolitan area as well as the larger New York metropolitan area.