The Hudson Riviera Along the Palisades Parkway
By Joanna Cohlan, Designing, Decorating & Staging Westchester Homes
(Fresh Eyes For Your Home)
Did you know that at the beginning of the 20th century New York and New Jersey became really good friends? Always competing for industry and for trade, these two states had one very important thing in common - the mighty Hudson River. In 1900 the two states had banded together to form the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the culmination of years of effort to preserve the famous Palisades cliffs from several large quarries that were blasting them for gravel and building material. The quarries were in New Jersey, but the outcry against them had begun across the river in New York — where each day millions could see the devastation the blasting was causing. A concerted effort to preserve the Palisades had begun by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, based in New Yo...
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