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| 1836 |
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Hudson River School of Art founder Thomas Cole settles in Catskill |
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| 1851 |
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Hudson River Railroad reaches Albany from New York |
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| 1882 |
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Westshore Railroad opens |
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| 1883-42 |
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Hudson River brickyards employ 2,400 people and manufacture 300 million bricks per year |
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| 1899 |
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Sleepy Hollow's Stanley Steamer plant produces cars on GM site |
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| 1915 |
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GM's Chevrolet factory opens in Sleepy Hollow |
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| 1941 |
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Haverstraw's last brickyard, the Rockland Brick Company, dismantles |
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| 1963 |
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Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference forms to save Storm King Mountain |
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| 1965 |
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"Scenic Hudson Decision" gives citizens standing, launches modern environmentalism |
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| Photo credits: (top to bottom) Corbis/Bettman; Courtesy of Beacon Historical Society; Scenic Hudson Archives. |
