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Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hence came WilliamBeekman, the first settler, a sort of Hudson River Penn, in1647. The mansion is one of the best specimens of an oldDutch homestead to be found in the Hudson valley ; andseveral other fine residences attract the curiosity oftourists. Exchange Hotel affords good accommodationsat Rhinebeck. Saugerties and Tivoli, the one on the west and the otheron the east bank of the river, next attract our attention.Saugerties is a picturesque and prosperous manufacturingvillage, at the mouth of the Esopus Creek. Rokeby, theestate of William B. Astor, son of John Jacob Astor, wasbuilt by his father-in-law. General John Armstrong, whowrote the addresses to the Continental army which cameso near produchig a revolt, as we saw just now at Xew-burg. The place is less than 5 miles below Tivoli.Near it is Saint Stephens College, a training school pre-paratory to the General Theological (Episcopal) Seminaryin Chelsea, New-York City, and established by Mr. JohnBard, at an expense of S60,000.
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LAKES, RIVERS, AXD MOUXTAIXS. 15 A little above Tivoli, Clermont, the former residence ofRobert R. Livingston, the first Chancellor of the State ofJS^ew-York, may be seen at Maiden on the opposite side ofthe river. Besides the eminent public services of theChancellor, his fame is connected with that of RobertFulton in the introduction of steam navigation. It willbe remembered that the Hudson River boasts the honorof having borne upon its bosom the first successful steam-boat in the world, and it is at this point that we most fitlyrecall that interesting chapter. Livingston furnished Ful-ton the means to carry on his experiments, and thefirst successful steamboat trip was made bv the Clermont(named in honor of Livingstons residence) in the autumnof 1807. She reached Albany in 32 hours from iSew-Yorkon this first trip ; and thus navigation bv steam, whichhad previously been considered a wild and chimerical pro-ject, became an established fact. Chancellor Livingstondied in 1813. Eleven

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