The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . BAL>:-Or-GILEAl) TRJCK. to the memory of the departed, this stone is erected by her niece, SarahHanna Payne, 1852. No relic of the olden time now remains at Fort Edward, excepting afew logs of the fort on the edge of the river, some faint traces of theembankments, and a magnificent Balm-of-Gilead tree, which stood, asapling, at the water-gate, when Putnam saved the magazine. It hasthree huge trunks, springing from the roots. One of them is more thanhalf decayed, having been twice riven by lightning within a few Rogerss Island, in
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . BAL>:-Or-GILEAl) TRJCK. to the memory of the departed, this stone is erected by her niece, SarahHanna Payne, 1852. No relic of the olden time now remains at Fort Edward, excepting afew logs of the fort on the edge of the river, some faint traces of theembankments, and a magnificent Balm-of-Gilead tree, which stood, asapling, at the water-gate, when Putnam saved the magazine. It hasthree huge trunks, springing from the roots. One of them is more thanhalf decayed, having been twice riven by lightning within a few Rogerss Island, in front of the town, where armies were encamped. 80 THE HUDSON. and a large block-house stood, Indian arrow-heads, bullets, and occasionallya piece of cob-money, • are sometimes upturned by the plough. A picture of the village of Fort Edward, in 1820, shows only six housesand a cliurch; now, as we have observed, it was a busy town with two. VIEW AT lORT EDWARP. thousand inhabitants. Its chief industrial establishment was an extensiveblast-furnace for converting iron ore into the pure metal. Upon risingground, and overlooking the village and surrounding country, was acolossal educational establishment, called the Fort Edward Institute.
Size: 1860px × 1343px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookidhudsonfromwilder00lossi
