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The 304-page guide gives you complete access & up-close tours of all ten historic river towns! Each has a detailed tour chapter with map and key to all major attractions, restaurants, shops and accommodations. Each chapter contains a comprehensive driving and walking visit to the town's unique points of interest, and explains its relationship with river. It also includes things to see and do which will add to your appreciation and enjoyment, plus a highlight tour if time is short.

Here are just a few brief examples of what's in store when you order the kit and begin discovering the "Heart of the Hudson".

 

(17) Steamboat Landing
This unpretentious riverside landing was one of the critical areas of the American Revolution. Here, in 1781, Washington crossed with his army and the French Army, bound for Virginia.
He crossed again a year later, after defeating
the British at Yorktown, and staged the
largest international military review in our nation's history, right here in Verplanck.

 (9) de Tocqueville's view
That intrepid traveler, Alexis de Tocqueville, in his remarkable American odyssey Democracy in America (1835), visited Ossining and commented on the view from where the high school now stands: "I must except the view of the Bay of Naples, out of deference to the opinion of the civilized world, but with that exception, the world has not such scenery."

At the time of de Tocqueville's visit, Sing Sing Prison had already been in Ossining (formerly known as Sing Sing) for some 10 years, and remains the town's most prominent landmark and largest employer.

 

 (1)-(14) Downtown
This small section of Yonkers, New York State's 4th largest city, has been home to an extraordinary number of remarkable people. Comedian Sid Caesar; plastics inventor Leo Baekeland; the richest man in the colonies in the early 18th century (Frederick Phillipse); singer Ella Fitzgerald; British Poet Laureate John Masefield; electrical genius Charles Steinmetz; jazz drummer Gene Krupa; inventor of FM broadcast Edwin Armstrong; elevator inventor Elisha Otis; famed gangster Dutch Schultz, and many other less famous (or infamous) but no less remarkable individuals all lived in the river town's most southern community.