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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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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 ...
Times Union

A brief history of Middle Ground Flats, a Hudson River island

As the Hudson River winds between the communities of Hudson and Athens, it is bisected by an island known as Middle Ground Flats, a splinter of land 1.5 miles long and about 1,000 feet at its widest ...
Smithsonian Magazine

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

A Currier & Ives print, published in the mid- to late 19th century, depicts Crow’s Nest, a mountain along the Hudson’s west bank. Library of Congress For millennia before steamships busied the river’s ...