The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age the Taconics

the Taconics

Beginning in the 1850s

” and the immense expanse of Glacial Lake Albany stretching the entire length of the Hudson Valley with its deltas that would become the sites of some of America’s most famous estates

000 years into the past

an uncommon collection of compelling images

The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age the TaconicsAuthors: Robert and Johanna Titus Mastodons in Greenville? There weretheir bones have turned up there in the past and many still probably lie beneath ponds and swamps in that region. New Yorks version of Los Angeless famous La Brea Tar Pits? Well, not tar, but muck, and today rich farmland in the Wallkill Valley has yielded the remains of many ice age mammals. Sand dunes in the city of Albany? Yes, frozen in time and now part of the Pine Bush