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Van Slyke Castle), originally known as Foxcroft, is a ruined early 20th century mansion in the state forest that was built to resemble a castle. [2] [3] The home was built by stockbroker William Porter in the 1900s. He named the property Foxcroft, as it was built on Fox Hill.
In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
Ots-Toch was born in or about 1600 near Canajoharie, New York, though according to some assessments of her life story, she was born considerably earlier. [citation needed] She married Dutch settler Cornelise Antonnisen Van Slyke and founded the Van Slyke family in New Netherland.
Ramapo Lake is a 120-acre man-made lake in Ramapo Mountain State Forest in Northern New Jersey. [1]Ramapo Lake originally consisting of a 25-acre pond named Rotten Poel (Rats Pond) by the Dutch.
David A. Plotz [2] (born January 31, 1970) [3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [6]
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
The castle-like house was built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington, D.C. as a personal retreat near the spa town, beginning in 1885. It was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his young widow, Rosa Pelham Suit, whom Suit had first met at Berkeley Springs, and their three children. [2]