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Upper Philipstown (Irish: An Daingean Uachtarach) is a barony in County Offaly (formerly King's County), Ireland. Etymology. The name Upper Philipstown is derived ...
Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States.The population was 1,986 at the 2020 census. [2] It borders the smaller village of Nelsonville and the hamlets of Garrison and North Highlands.
It is part of the town of Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Garrison Metro-North Railroad station serves the town. Garrison (a.k.a. Garrison's Landing) was named after 2nd Lieutenant Isaac Garrison, who held a property lot on the Hudson River across from West ...
Philipstown is governed by a town board. [9] The town hall is located at 238 Main Street (New York State Route 301) in Cold Spring, New York. Primary law enforcement services in Philipstown are provided by the New York State Police and the Putnam County Sheriff's Department. The village of Cold Spring has its own police department.
Suisun Marsh, 116,000 acres (470 km 2) of land, bays, and sloughs, is one of the largest estuarine marshes in the western United States. Geologically, the Suisun Marsh is the product of water-borne sediment deposition, carried from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers into the San Francisco Bay.
Patrick Dunne (1818–1900), a Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia, was born in Philipstown. Lord Charles Beresford (1846–1919), British admiral and politician; born in Philipstown. Joe Connor (1877–1934), an Irish international footballer who played for West Bromwich Albion, Arsenal and Fulham among others, was born in ...
Lower Philipstown was roughly formed from the ancient tuaths; Tuath Rátha Droma and Tuath Cruacháin of the Uí Failge (O'Connor Faly). Ó hAonghusa (O'Hennessy) alongside Ó hUallacháin (O'Houlihan) are cited here as chiefs of Clan Colgan, near Croghan Hill. [2] The original Philipstown barony was split into upper and lower by 1807.
Part of modern-day NY 311 from the NY 292 intersection to the route's ending terminus was once part of the Philipstown Turnpike. Initially, the county's proximity to the Hudson River supplied cheap means of transporting goods to Albany and New York City, though in the winter months, the river froze over. [9]