Sunday, October 6, 2013

Boscobel House and the town of Cold Spring, New York

  View from the Boscobel House and Gardens over the Hudson Valley
 
Boscobel was built in 1804 by a local aristocratic family loyal who had been loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War. 
 
 
We took a tour of the house. Sam got to learn how sugar cones were cut into small pieces, and how chamber pots were used. Also kids weren't even allowed into the main living room area until they were 14 with respectable company.
 

Trail behind Boscobel house and gardens

 
 The village of Cold Spring, New York, Riverfront park, overlooking the Hudson river
 
How about absorbing some history while taking a nap on a historical iron cast bench? This bench is practivally begging for it as it is exactly Sammy-size. Zzzzzzzz. 
Sam is at Putnam County Historical Society museum. Cold Spring foundries specialized in producing iron for both civilian and military use in 1850s.

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