Richard Philp

Catskill Village (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Catskill Village has deep roots in the long human history of the Hudson River Valley, from its native population who greeted Henry Hudson on his voyage upriver in 1609 to its early settlers. Today,s village is located on the commercially advantageous landing on the Hudson River. In 1802, the Susquehanna Turnpike opened the village to the expanding western frontier, and Catskill Village became one of the most prominent commercial ports on the Hudson River. Local trades such as shipbuilding, tanning, farming, brickmaking, fishing, and tourism flourished. By the mid-20th century, the long era of prosperity had faded, only to rise phoenixlike in the past decade with an infusion of young professionals, artists, craftsmen, merchants, and those determined to save and restore the village,s exceptionally rich architectural heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439620526
• Artikelnr.: 40009353

Autorenporträt

Journalist, columnist, historian, and author of seven books, Richard Philp is editor-in-chief emeritus of Dance Magazine in New York City. He has had a home in Catskill for about 40 years, where he is both the village historian and the town historian. Here he has gathered photographs spanning the years 1860 to the present from his own collection, as well as the collections of other local historians.