place

Sojourner Truth State Park

Parks in Ulster County, New YorkScenic HudsonState parks of New York (state)Use mdy dates from August 2023
Sojourner Truth State Park map
Sojourner Truth State Park map

Sojourner Truth State Park is a 508-acre (2.06 km2) state park that is under construction in Ulster County, New York, to the north of the city of Kingston. It is bound by Hudson River to its east and New York State Route 32 on its west. The park was dedicated by Governor Kathy Hochul on February 28, 2022, in honor of Sojourner Truth, who was born nearby in Esopus, and Black History Month. The park was officially opened by the governor on April 23, 2022, coinciding with Earth Day.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Sojourner Truth State Park (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Sojourner Truth State Park
1st Avenue,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Sojourner Truth State ParkContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 41.943888888889 ° E -73.9725 °
placeShow on map

Address

1st Avenue 566
12401
New York, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Sojourner Truth State Park map
Sojourner Truth State Park map
Share experience

Nearby Places

Cordts Mansion
Cordts Mansion

Edgewood, aka Cordts Mansion is a historic home located at Kingston in Ulster County, New York. It is an impressive, three story Second Empire style residence built in 1873 for a prominent brick merchant and a manufacturer, John A. Cordts. It features a centered tower, slate sloping concave mansard roof with headed dormer windows, iron roof cresting, a columned front porch verandah, and a bay window.Hutton Brickyards It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.Known to the Cordts family as Edgewood, it is an impressive three-story Second Empire mansion, constructed in 1873 for John H. Cordts, a brick merchant, manufacturer and co-founder of the firm of Cordts and Hutton. It is located within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and is prominently sited atop a hill facing east and overlooking the Hudson River. The mansion occupies anine-acre, mostly-landscaped lot located on the east side of Lindsley Avenue, north of Delaware Avenue, in Kingston, New York. Adjoining the mansion lot to the north is Hutton Brickyards; across Lindsley Avenue, to the south and east is Delaware Avenue and residential housing, some of which was owned by the Cordts family and occupied by brick company employees; to the west across Lindsley Avenue, is a wood lot property once owned by the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company as well as the Moses Yeomans House, a pre-Revolutionary stone house with former ties to the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company. The Edgewood Mansion is an imposing building with many distinctive exterior details and features associated with the Second Empire style including the centered tower, slate sloping concave mansard roof with hooded dormer windows having jigsaw trim, iron roof cresting much of it topped with finials in a modified fleur de lys style, molded cornices with paired support eave brackets, a columned front porch verandah, round headed windows, and a side bay window facing south on the first and second stories. Windows on the first and second stories and in the arched tower have shutters. The windows are varied but mostly two over two or two over one. The main section of roof beyond the iron cresting and not visible from the grounds is asphalt. The structural system is joisted masonry. The brickwork is painted yellow and appears to be mainly common bond. The architect is not known but the construction would likely have been supervised by John H. Cordts with materials provided by the Cordts and Hutton brickyard and the Hutton Company lumberyard, both nearby. The dimensions are irregular containing numerous projections and setbacks but can be approximated to 45 ft. x 90 ft. on the first story, 45 ft. x 75 ft. on the second story and 36 ft. x 75 ft. on the third story.The mansion is now part of Hutton Brickyards and will available for hotel stays starting in summer of 2022.

Rondout Creek
Rondout Creek

Rondout Creek is a 63.3-mile-long (101.9 km) tributary of the Hudson River in Ulster and Sullivan counties, New York, United States. It rises on Rocky Mountain in the eastern Catskills, flows south into Rondout Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply network, then into the valley between the Catskills and the Shawangunk Ridge, where it goes over High Falls and finally out to the Hudson at Kingston, receiving along the way the Wallkill River. The name of Rondout Creek comes from the fort, or redoubt, that was erected near its mouth. The Dutch equivalent of the English word redoubt (meaning a fort or stronghold) is reduyt. In the Dutch records of Wildwyck, however, the spelling used to designate this same fort is invariably Ronduyt during the earliest period, with the present form rondout (often capitalized) appearing as early as November 22, 1666.The Rondout Creek became economically important in the 19th century when the Delaware and Hudson Canal followed closely alongside it from Napanoch to the village of Rondout, now part of Kingston, which grew rapidly as the canal's northern port. Today it is important not only for the reservoir, but for the fishing and other recreational opportunities it provides. Due to the Wallkill, it drains a vast area stretching over 1,100 square miles (2,850 km2) all the way down to Sussex County, New Jersey. The high mountains around its upper course and the reservoir, which collects water from three others, also add to its flow.