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Colts Antique New York State Adirondacks Hudson And More Travel Guide History For Sale
TITLE PAGE:
The
Tourist's Guide
Through The
EMPIRE STATE
Embracing All
CITIES, TOWNS AND WATERING PLACES,
By Hudson River and New York Central Route.
Describing All Routes of Travel, and Places of Popular In-
terest and Resort Along the Hudson River, Lake
George, Lake Champlain, The Adirondacks,
Saratoga, Niagara Falls, Etc., Etc.
Edited and Published by
Mrs. S. S. Colt, Albany, NY
1871
This original first edition is 142 years old!
This 136 year old New York state travel guide describes its
show
places
along the legendary Hudson River ending at Niagara Falls. Included are
funny and pathetic stories of the present and past. The book not
only describes the fascinating and historical sites in 1871 of New York
state, but gives some background and facts about events that took place
on or near the sites described such as the duel between Philip Hamilton
and George J Eacker in 1801 at the Weehawken Dueling Ground (on the
same ground that Alexander Hamilton fell in 1804 in his duel with Aaron
Burr, and the very spot where his eldest son had been killed);
Carmansville, a suburb of New York that Audubon (the American
ornithologist) lived; how Aaron Burr's second wife owned a necklace of
garnets found near the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb; the
legend of the Dutch goblin of Thunder Mountain; an incident on a stage
coach ride to the Mountain House in the Catskill Mountains; description
of the 'new' State House and Capitol along with several other
government buildings; description of digging up the remains of Lord
George Howe and found his hair had grown several inches; and many, many
more tidbits of fascinating legends, lore and history buried in this
descriptive guide to the state of New York.......... a
fascinating book!! Colt's Guide records facts about the towns and
settlements, counties, rivers, lakes, creeks and other watercourses of
New York as they existed in 1871.
COPYRIGHT: 1871 with 1871
on title page
PAGES: 239 pages measuring 6"
x 9"
CONDITION: Faded cloth
boards with some wear and corner bumping. The spine has been covered
with black leather and the inside front and rear hinges are reinforced
with black linen archival binding. No previous ownership marks,
nameplates,
inscriptions, etc. I've went through the book page-by-page and can
verify there are no
missing pages. Design on front board is faded gold.
Contents:
I. A Birds-eye View of New York and its Environs
II. New York to Irvington. Telling Old Stories and New Ones by
the Way
III. From Irvington to West Point. Beecher's Home - Greeley's Farm
IV. West Point to Albany. The West Point Cadets - the Beauties of
Poughkeepsie, and the story of A Tongue that was Tamed!
V. Our Capital City. Its Sights and its People, Old Times and New
VI. Albany and Susquehanna Road. The Helderberts - Howe's Cave -
Sharon Springs - Richfield Springs - Cherry Valley
VII. Cooperstown. The Home of Fenimore Cooper - Leatherstocking
Falls - "Lake Glimmerglass"
VIII. Troy - Ballston Spa - Saratoga and its Belles
IX. Lake George - Lake Champlain - the Adirondacks - about Deer and
Black Flies
X. Our Westward Way. Auburn, Cornell University - Taghkanic Falls -
Rochers - Avon - Watkins Glen, etc
XI. Buffalo and Niagara
XII. Hints for Travelers
XIII. Princess Nemona; or, Love in the Empire State
Poem - Climbing up the Mountain
Finis
The
book was written without an index so I've leafed through the book
picking out text topics and names to give you a better idea of the
content:
Paulus Hook • Hoboken • Elysian Fields • Weehawken Bluffs •
Bergen
Heights • Nieuw Amsterdam • Mr James Grant Wilson • Tybalts • "code of
honor" • Weehawken Dueling Ground • Philip Hamilton • George J Eacker •
Ben Price • deadly encounter between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
• West-Side Railroad • Fitz-Greene Halleck • flower trade • Indians
"fire water" • "Old Trinity" rich church of New York • steamboat
travelers • boats of the Day Line - C Vibbard and Daniel Drew • Island
of Manhattan • Palisades commence at Weehawken • Fort Lee •
Manhattanville • Lunatic Asylum • Claremont Hotel • Carmansville •
Audubon's "Minnie's Land" or Audubon Park • Churchyard of Trinity •
Potter's Field • New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb • Fort
Washington • James Gordon Bennett residence • Mt St Vincent • Ladies of
the Sacred Heart • Edwin Forrest residence, Fonthill • Yonkers • Mary
Philipse • Philipse Manor House • mariner Hendrick Hudson •
Hastings-On-The-Hudson • Garibaldi • Dobbs' Ferry • 'Fairy of Dobbs'
Ferry' • Piermont • town of Tappan •
Major Andre executed • Seventy-six Stone House • Dearman's Station •
Nevis, homestead of Colonel James Hamilton • Mr Cottinet home •
Bierstadt villa • Sunny Side, residence of Washington Irving •
Tarrytown • Paulding Manor • Sleepy Hollow • Nathan Hale • Sir William
Howe • Libby Prison • Old Dutch Church • Jackson Military Institute •
Nyack-on-the-Hudson • Smith's Steamboat Line • Smithsonian House •
Clarendon • Rockland Female Institute • Rockland County • Tappan Zee •
Nyack and Northern Railroad • Rev. Henry Ward Beecher • Rockland •
Verdrieteges Hook • "Treason Hill" Joshua Hett Smith • Sing Sing •
Croton Aqueduct • State Prison • Methodist Episcopal Church of New
York • Croton Point • Dr Underhill of Croton Point • Croton Dam •
Croton Falls • Stoney Point • Wayne's Black Walnut • General Wayne, Mad
Anthony • Verplanck's Point • Peekskill • Van Cortlandt house • Lake
Mahopac • Chappaqua • Horace Greeley farm • Westchester County • "Home
of Consumptives" • Tremont • New Rochelle • Llewellyn Park of Orange NJ
• Huguenot Park • Hudson River Railroad Co • Montrose Station •
Anthony's Nose • Thunder Mountain • Caldwell's Landing • Highlands •
West Point • Cozzens'
West Point Hotel • Lieutenant-General Scott • Kosciusko's Garden and
Monument • Chan Battery Walk • General John Sedgwick • ruins of Forts
Clinton, Putnam, Webb, Wyllys • Constitution Island • Miss Susan Warner
home • Parry House • West Shore Railroad • Highland Falls •
Donald-Highland Institute • Breakneck Hill • Cornwall Landing • Storm
King • Newburgh • Mr Henry Kirke Brown residence • Fishkill Landing •
New Hamburgh • Professor Morse residence • Poughkeepsie • Vassar
College • Matthew Vassar • Eastman's Business College • Collingwood
Opera House • Hyde Park • Morgan House • death of "Lochy Ostrom" •
famous apple farm of R L Pell • James K Pauling home, Placentia •
Rhinebeck • Wildercliff built by Freeborn Garretson • Ellerslie, home
of William Kelly • Rokeby, summer home of William B Astor • Montgomery
Place, built by widowed bride of General Montgomery • Robert Fulton •
Clermont, Chancellor Livingston Manor • Kaatsbergs or Cat Mountains •
Description Widlam • Catskills • Irving House • Thomas Cole • Rip Van
Winkle cottage •
Kaaterskill or High Falls • Cauterskill Falls • Worth House, hotel •
Claverack Falls • New Lebanon Springs • Shaker Village • Stuyvesant
formerly Kinderhook Landing • Martin Van Buren estate, Lindenwald •
Albany • Delavan House • Broadway first known as Handelaer • wooden
statue of Themis on dome of State House • future plans and description
of the Capitol • Knights Templar • Masons • Parade description •
Description of the celebration for laying the Capitol's first
cornerstone • City Hall • Hall of Military Records • State Library •
State Arsenal • State Museum of Natural History • New City Building •
Trimble Opera House • St. Peter's Church • remains of Lord George Howe
• Tweddle Hall • Perry's Building • Herr Anthony Vanderheyden
residence, Bracebridge Hall • Anneke Jans • Middle Dutch Church yard •
Albany Paper Collar Co • factory of George N Cozine • Albany Iron Works
of Mr Henry C Haskell • Albany Beef • Cold Water Soap • Dalavan House •
Tontine Coffee House • Koonz's State Street Carpet Store • Webster
Brothers • Random Recollection of Albany by Mr Munsell • Mr
Goldsborough Banyar • Greenbush, formerly known as Het Green Bosch •
Van Rensselaer Manor • Dudley Observatory funded by Mrs Dudley •
Observatory Hill • Albany Medical College • Albany Almshouse,
Insane Asylum • Albany City Hospital • Albany Orphan Asylum • St
Vincent Orphan Asylum • Albany Rural Cemetery • Banks Memorial monument
• William H Pohlman monument • Brevet Brig-Gen Lewis Benedict • Dr
Alden March • St Agnes Cemetery (Catholic) • Helderberg Mtns in Albany
County • Adirondacks • Troy Scientific Association • Schoharie County •
Susquehanna Railroad trains • Guilderland Station • Indian Ladder Gap •
Black Creek • Schoharie Valley • Tory House cave • Indians • Tory Hook
• Small Fall or Dry Falls • Helderberg fossils • Silurian and Devonian
rocks • Big or Mine Lot Fall • Jacob Salisbury • Gebhard's Cave •
Sutphen's Cave • Knowersville village • Livingston's cave • Clarksville
• Half-mile Cave • Mr Lester Howe's Cave • Cobleskill • Cherry Valley •
Sulphur, Magnesia and Chalybeate springs • Lake Canaderaga •
Cooperstown • Luxurious cars • Cooper House • Otsego County • Lake
Otsego, Glimmerglass • Susquehanna River • Lake Glimmerglass in the
Deerslayer • Otsego Herald • Prince Talleyrand • Colonel William L
Stone • Views and Prospects Near Cooperstown • Lakewood Cemetery •
Otsego Lake points of interest • Otsego Lake Steamers and other craft •
Natty Bumppo • Cooperstown Improvement Association • Future
Improvements • Oakwood and Mount Ida Cemeteries • General George H
Thomas • Falls of Cohoes • Erie Canal • Rennsselaer and Saratoga
Railroad • Round Lake • Ballston Spa • High Rock • Sir William Johnson
• Great Spirit • Saratoga mineral waters • High Rock Spring • Seltzer
Spring • Saratoga Star Spring • Empire Spring • Red Spring • Excelsior
Spring • Hathorn Spring • Congress Spring • Columbian Spring • Pavilion
Spring • United States Spring • Crystal Spring • Eureka Spring •
Spouting Spring • Fountain of Health • Doctor Bedortha's Water Cure •
Crescent Hotel • Moon's Lake House • Chapman's Hill, Wagman's Hill,
Hagerty Hill • Bemis Heights • Morrissey's Club House • Lake George •
Fort Edward • Jane M'Crea • Glen Falls • Caldwell • Tongue Mountain •
Old Fort Ti • Crown Point • North Elba • Telegraph lines • John Brown
Tract • Port Kent • Keeseville • Whiteface • Notch • Indian Pass •
Raquette Lake • Schenectady • Palatine Bridge • Fort Plain • Little
Falls • Herkimer • Utica • Anthony Trollope • Trenton Falls • John
Brown Tract • Rome • Verona • Oneida • Chittenango • Syracuse •
Cossett's Tavern • Syracuse House • Springport • Cayuga • Auburn • Frog
Point or Trumansburg • Taghkanic House • Ithaca • Cornell University •
Miss Jennie Spencer • Hiram Sibley of Rochester • Watkins Glen • Thomas
Terryberry • Clifton Spa House • Canandaigua • Rochester • Ensworth
House • Nathaniel Rochester • Powers' Commercial Fire-proof Buildings •
Harry Clay • Genesee Falls • Rochester and Charlotte railroad • Sam
Patch • Avon • Water Cures • Geneseo famous Big Tree • The Town
Destroyer • Goat Island • Bath Island • Prospect Tower • Indian
Emporium • Cave of the Winds • Horse-Shoe Fall • Lunda Island •
offerdle's Stairs • Gull Island • Navy Island • Grand Island • The
Whirlpool • Devil's Hole • Chasm Tower • Table Rock • Termination Rock
• The Museum • The Burning Spring • Lundy's Lane
Engravings:
Hendrick Hudson and his ship the Half-Moon (frontispiece) •
New York from Weehawken • New York, 1650 • Pleasure grounds belonging
to one of the 'Summer Homes' • Manhattan
Island, 1609 • Minuits' purchase of the Island of Manhattan • Palisades
• Rockland Female Institute • Croton Dam • Stony Point • View from West
Point • Near Cozzens' Landing • Crow Nest • Cold Spring • Washington's
Headquarters at Newburgh • Near Newburgh • Residence and Pleasure
grounds of Prof. H G Eastman • Soldiers' Memorial Fountain,
Poughkeepsie • View on the Grounds of Eastman Place, Poughkeepsie •
Eastman Place • Irving House, Catskill • The Hudson, six miles below
Albany • Albany • Famous Old Dutch Church of Albany, erected 1715,
demolished 1806 • Elm Tree Corner, North Pearl Street in 1805 •
Vanderheyden Palace • Trinity Church • First Lutheran Church of Albany,
1870 • Cooperstown NY from the east • Otsego Lake • Leather Stocking
Falls • The Hall, home of Fenimore Cooper • Tomb of Fenimore Cooper •
Table Rock Falls • Excelsior Spring • Saratoga Lake • Lake George •
Ticonderoga Lake Champlain • Princess Nomena • "The Pool Where the Big
Trout Lie" • Aqueduct at Little Falls • Trenton Falls • At Trenton
Falls • Trenton Falls • Hunting on Lake Ontario • Niagara
Advertisements:
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance • Cooper
House, Cooperstown • Lucius Hart Manufacturing Co, Britannia Ware •
Jackson Military Institute, Tarrytown-On-The-Hudson • Smithsonian
House, Nyack-On-The-Hudson • North River and New York Steamboat Co •
Donald-Highland Institute, Highland Falls NY • Clarendon House,
Nyack-on-the-Hudson • Empire Sewing Machine Co • Freeman & Burr
clothing • Blees' Family Sewing Machine • The National Life Insurance
Company of New York • Dr Louis A safer beauty tonic, also warnings
against George W Laird's "Bloom of Youth" • Rockland Female Institute •
Hygience Institute, New York • Herald of Health by D H Jacques •
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance • Thomson's Corsets • Trimble Opera
House • Saratoga Water Cure • Dr Robert Hamilton • W H Bruce • China
Tea Company • Tweddle Hall Dollar Store • Wakefield Earth Closet • Dr
Felix Gouraud • Mrs Castle's Emporium of Fashions • H N Gardner • A
Armbrust Merchant Tailor • E A Hobbs & Co • S E Miller • Irving
House • Worth House • Albany Paper Collar Co • Delavan House, Albany •
New York and Troy Steamboat Co • C Vibbard and Daniel Drew • Mary
Powell Steamboat • Eugenie Manufacturing Co • Camille Perfume • Pyle's
O K Soap • New Empire Cook Stove • Boswell & Warner's hair color •
Samuel R Wells • Narragansett Steamship Co for Boston • A A
Constantine's Persian Healing Pine Tar Soap • J Munsell Steam Printing
House • Henry C Haskell Albany Iron and Machine Works • Pollak &
Son, Meerschaum Pipes • Widows' and Orphans' Benefit Life Insurance •
The Year of Battles by L P Brockett • The "Eugenie" or Lady's Companion
Folks, this original first edition is 142 years old!
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