Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/59

Capt. Collyer's house, Driftwood

... that after Moses Collyer built his retirement home (pictured) in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?
... that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?
... that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?

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