The residents of Harlem Valley have shaped both the history
and culture of our nation with bravery and integrity. Quakers in
the Harlem Valley stood firm against slavery, and the Amenia
Conference, organized by Joel Spingarn, strengthened the NAACP.
The Harlem Valley served as a transportation center, linking New
England to the west, and was also a major supplier of iron ore in the
eighteenth century. Well known for their educational endeavors, the
residents of Harlem Valley established one of the oldest libraries in
the state of New York.
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Eleanor Roosevelt's character was shaped by the history and culture of the Hudson Valley. More than that, Eleanor Roosevelt loved the Hudson Valley. A woman who knew and cared for the whole world chose this place, Val-Kill, as her home in a cottage by a stream. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Hudson Valley Remembrance reflects her unaffected simplicity and caring interest in her neighbors' concerns. Remembered by friends, colleagues, neighbors, and young people, these qualities inspired a community-based group to lead efforts to save her home in 1977 as the country's first national historic site...

For motorists traveling in Dutchess County on the Taconic State Parkway, the dominant impression is the beauty of a seemingly unchanged natural landscape. Nestled under the shadow of the Taconic (Berkshire) Mountains to the east with views west to the Catskills, the parkway follows a ridge halfway between the towns and cities on the Hudson River and those in the Harlem Valley bordering New England. The parkway, as envisioned by a commission appointed in 1925 and initially chaired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was built "to open up a very beautiful section at present inaccessible" and "to...