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The Hudson Valley between northern Westchester county in the south and Albany to the north is an area called "the Great Estates Region" where many of the American elite built their mansions in the nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Less than 100 miles up the The Hudson River from New York City it had beautiful views of the river, the Catskill Mountains and glorious fall foliage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General history of Duchess County from 1609 to 1876, inclusive by Philip Henry Smith History at A Tourist Guide to Rhinebeck, NY at bukisa.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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See Also: Dutchess County Lodging Hudson Valley Catskill Sights
Geology: Two more orogenies, the Acadian, 410 to 380 million years ago, and the Alleghanian, 320-280 million years ago continued to shape the building of the continent. Between 300 million and 200 million years ago, a supercontinent began splitting apart. It was during this period of land splitting apart, in the Mesozoic, that the Palisades were formed and it left a gap the Hudson would eventually fill. 26,000 - 13,000 years ago the Hudson Fjord is created by the Wisconsin Stage of the last Glacial age.
The Shawangunk ridge area in the southern Catskills contains one of the largest known exposed fault system in the United States. Headwaters are in the Adirondak mountains near Mount Marcy. The tide in the Hudson River is the continuation of the tide-wave, which comes up from the ocean through New York Bay, and is carried by its own momentum one hundred and sixty miles, growing, of course, constantly smaller, until it is finally stopped by the dam at Troy.
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