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The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, also known as New Windsor Cantonment, is located along NY 300, north one mile of Vails Gate, in the Town of New Windsor, Orange County, New York. The site features a reconstruction of the Continental Army 's final military encampment .
Mr. Morrison's letter, and the Sentinel newspaper article, caused the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) to pursue development of an appropriate facility at New Windsor Cantonment to commemorate the history of the Purple Heart and to recognize all recipients. The name, Purple Heart Hall of Honor, was chosen.
Eastern cottonwood tree dating to ca. 1699, early center of Balmville and today New York's smallest state forest. Local legend has it that it was George Washington's walking stick. It was cut down in 2015 after it became a hazard to traffic. [5] 12
[2] [5] While owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation the Ellison House is administered and operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, like many other state parks and historic sites in the mid and lower Hudson region. Today, the house can be toured when the site is open.
On April 1, 1980, the state of New York assumed ownership and maintenance of CR 10, CR 28, CR 38, and CR 59 as part of a highway maintenance swap between the state and Orange County. [9] The new north–south state highway became part of an extended NY 300, which made a 90-degree turn at Cronomer Valley and proceeded south to Vails Gate ...
View history; General ... New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site; New York State Route 300; ... Stewart State Forest; V. Vails Gate, New York
New Windsor Historic District; New Windsor, New York, a town New Windsor (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town; New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site; New Windsor Township, South Carolina, an 18th-century township that included Savannah Town, South Carolina; New Windsor Hotel, previously the 6th Avenue Hotel, a historic ...
In 1924 the state forester E. O. Siecke succeeded in establishing the first state forest in Texas (named E. O. Siecke State Forest in 1951). The forest consisted of 1,702 acres (6.9 km 2) near Kirbyville. By 1925 additional state forest lands had been acquired in Cherokee and Montgomery Counties. [32]