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Hudson Valley Curiosities : The Sinking Of The Steamship Swallow, The Poughkeepsie Seer, The UFOs Of The Celtic Stone Chambers And More / Allison Guertin Marchese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchese, Allison Guertin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curiosities and wonders--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Curiosities and wonders.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History, Local.
- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Putnam County (N.Y.)--History, Local.
- Putnam County (N.Y.).
- Columbia County (N.Y.)--History, Local.
- Columbia County (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- travel guidebooks.
- Guidebooks.
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Local history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : History Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Hudson Valley is steeped in mysteries, from Celtic chambers resting in the deep woods of Putnam to Millbrook's abandoned Bennett College. In the Highlands, Iroquois chief Daniel Nimham gave his life for the cause of American independence. One strange night in the Catskills, a legendary playwright miraculously survived a midnight plunge off the suspended Schoharie Bridge. The great passenger steamship Swallow sank near the shores of Athens. Author Allison Guertin Marchese reveals a treasure-trove of curious tales recounting the most uncommon history of bad guys, bold girls, creepy colleges, missing mastodons and more in this wondrous region of New York."--Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Strange stone structures and UFOs of Putnam
- Letchworth village patient experiments
- Chappaqua's coincidental candidates
- West Point's great chain and the girl who went to war
- The leather man tramp
- Outrageous octagonal houses
- The disappearance of doodletown
- Amazing mastodons
- Eleanor Roosevelt's romantic revolver
- Creepy Vassar college
- The irony of neversink
- The wickedest man on earth
- Krazy Kaaterskill falls
- The lady hunter of long eddy
- Dutch schultz: gangster bootlegger
- The curious case of oakley hall III
- Cursed ground in Millbrook
- The wreck of the steamship swallow
- Eastfield: the town that never was
- Babes, breweries and Albany's ancient ale
- Insane shaker inventions
- The Poughkeepsie seer.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159).
- ISBN:
- 9781439662113
- 1439662118
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