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Superb photographic history of scores of important homes and public buildings--Sunnyside, Boscobel, Clermont, West Point, etc.--built in the valley ...Show synopsisSuperb photographic history of scores of important homes and public buildings--Sunnyside, Boscobel, Clermont, West Point, etc.--built in the valley of the Hudson River from colonial times to 19th century. Meticulously researched text. 200 photographs.Hide synopsis
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Description:Very Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. From...Very Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. From the Foreword: OLD HOUSES and public edifices are symbols of history, tangible evidences of the past. Like finger-posts, they clearly fix sites of former happenings. As settings for bygone men and deeds, they help us to visualise momentous acts and diverting incidents alike. Through force of association they make history real and alive. If you stand in the garden of Fort Crailo and hear that a young officer of General Abercrombie's staff wrote "Yankee Doodle, " sitting there on the well-kerb, you would always remember place and incident together. Coming from the windows of a grey old house in Kingston you seem to hear the strains of Aaron Burr's fiddle; the headquarters at Newburgh recall Washington bartering army salt for his breakfast eggs; at Clermont, beside the ruins of Arryl House, the festivities for la Fayette rise before you almost unbidden. The house is always the mordant to fix the story. The Hudson Valley holds a wealth of history. That history is inseparably bound up with the old houses on both sides of the river; without the houses and marked sites of important events, the history would lose its dramatic reality and be a vague abstraction. The river was the natural, for a long time the only, artery of communication and traffic. To penetrate into the heart of the country the early colonists followed the waterways debouching into the Hudson, as far as they could go by sloop or canoe-after that, on foot along the banks. At the mouths and along the courses of these streams, therefore, you look for many of the earliest settlements. These tributaries offered another inducement to which the pioneers were not blind-abundant water power for mills, and mills were the nuclei of colonisation. The mill was a centre of distribution whither all had to go for the wherewithal for their daily bread. Oftentimes, until a church was established in the neighbourhood, people had no place else to go when they stirred from home; after a church was built, it was a common saying that thenceforth they had two places to go-"to mill and to meetin'." The miller did a thriving business as fur trader and general-storekeeper; the mill was the hub of local commerce. Although early roads of indifferent sort had appeared here and there between neighbouring settlements-usually made by widening Indian trails-it was not until the dawn of the 18th century that there was any attempt at road-making for the benefit of the whole Province. Even after improved roads were built, the river long remained the chief high-way; "traders followed it and settlers kept near its waters." The Province's main highway in the days of its beginnings, the Hudson was also the chief line of strategy during the War for Independence. It was the British aim to control the whole length of the river and thus cut off New England from the Middle Colonies and the South. It was Washington's aim to control it and thus keep open an interior line of communication, whatever might befall along the seaboard. Hence the stirring incidents of the struggle along the Hudson's shores. The houses and estates of the Hudson Valley reflect a system, social and economic which, however much one may approve or disapprove it on general principles and judged by modern standards, profoundly affected the subsequent development of the State. Whatever flaws the doctrinaire democrat may pick in it, the manorial system unquestionably made for strength and stability in the early days of colonisation. It was not a one-sided scheme devised for the sole pleasure and profit of great landowners. It was a system based on the mutual interest of great and lowly alike, the common profit of landlord and tenant, a system of amicable co-operation, and for the advantages each derived he had to render a substantial quid pro quo. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!
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