History This beautiful hill, rising 550 feet above the Hudson River, has a long history. The region was first populated at the end of the last ice age, nearly 10,000 years ago, by bands of roaming hunter-gatherers who gradually established . . . — — Map (db m204987) HM
By 1894 Rhinebeck grew and
shipped millions of violets
weekly for corsages and
gifts. By 1928, town called
"Violet Capital of the World" — — Map (db m234923) HM
Grasmere-birthplace-W. A. Duer
once president of Columbia Col.
On the right beyond-Ellerslie,
home of Levi P. Morton, Gov. of
NY & Vice Pres. of U.S. — — Map (db m132574) HM
Seat of the Suckley family
from 1852 to 1983, first
house build in 1852, much
enlarged in 1888, plan for
landscape for Calvert Vaux. — — Map (db m35369) HM
You are looking at the site of Wilderstein's boathouse (pictured above) and the Ellerslie dock (formerly Lewis Landing) owned by Governor Morton. In 1888 Arnout Cannon Jr., an architect from Poughkeepsie, NY, designed the boathouse for Robert . . . — — Map (db m35437) HM
