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The Railroads of Pine Plains
A website about the Central New England Railway with loads of photographs and data about the railroad history of Pine Plains. Lots of fun. Great shots of Pine Plains in the old days.
Warning, though: Do not enter anything in the window "Ask K.C." I asked for other railroad links I could use on this site and I got a very, very rude reply that I was a spammer (to put it mildly). It's some kind of message board. Not a friendly one! Otherwise, this site is great.
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Lost Landmarks of Upstate NY
" Someday the puzzle that is Upstate New York will be insoluable because of its missing pieces.
Their days as the high road west left canalside towns with oversized hotels, its career as a manufactory is remembered by red brick factories and the mansions of carpet or celluloid collar or glove moguls.
Click the thumbnail images to see these memorials before they disappear through demolition, fire, or even heavy snow."
A remarkable site just loaded with fascinating photographs and articles.
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Bannerman's Castle Island
You see this spooky castle on an island from the train going along the Hudson and just assume that it is unreachable except, perhaps, by stealth boat in the dead of the night with no moon and when no one in his right mind would want to be there...
Well, there is a trust that is preserving the castle and offering trips to visit. Even if you don't go to the castle, visit the website for an entertaining tour of some little-known local history.
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Walkway Over the Hudson
A railroad bridge, over a mile long, crosses the Hudson River 212 feet above the water from Poughkeepsie to Highland. It is now being renovated as the world's first elevated public park.
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Sears Catalog Homes
This is fun!
"From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 - 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room and no-bath cottage for summer vacationers."
This website catalogs these catalog homes. Helpful for identifying models that exist today. And you will be amazed at what you could get from a catalog! Now, if they could have had that online...
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The Official Dover Drag Strip Website
The old Dover Drag Strip is kept alive by this website.
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Our Town, Our Voices 1905-2003
An oral history of Pine Plains, written by Rosemary Lyons.
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