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Interpretive panels inside the visitor center at Peebles Island State Park tell the history of the island, formed near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in the town of Waterford.
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Posted: April 27, 2008
Photographer: Ana Zangroniz
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the Polish engineer they named the Northway’s twin bridges after, knew how to build things to make them last. Take the earthworks at Peebles Island, for instance, more than 230 years old.
“Where else in the area can you see the original remains of earthworks from the American Revolution?” asked Paul Huey, an archaeologist with the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation whose headquarters are on Peebles Island. “They haven’t been restored, enhanced or improved for interpretation. They’re unchanged, just the way they left them. That’s pretty unique.”
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