FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
REPORT 1909, OF THE AMERI-
CAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC
PRESERVATION SOCIETY

TO THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK

TRANSMITTED TO THE
LEGISLATURE, APRIL 26

1909

FOUNDED BY ANDREW H. GREEN AND
INCORPORATED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN 1895

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS

1909

Highlands of the Hudson..

Tree mayhem and arboricide:

Indictment of overhead wires..

Morningside park

Central park

Joseph Rodman Drake park created.

Inwood Hill park...

Saint John's chapel, New York:

The Old King's farm..

The building of St. John's chapel.

Obliteration of St. John's park..

The Red Fort or North Battery.

Proposed abandonment of St. John's chapel.

Madison Square Garden, New York.

Memories of Alexander Hamilton:

Monument offered

Last of Hamilton trees.

Official record of coroner's inquest..

Thomas Paine house, New Rochelle, saved.

Fort Lee Monument dedicated..

West Point landmarks:

Mrs. Russell Sage's gift

Revolutionary history of Constitution island.

Appropriation for marking sites.

Kingston's 250th anniversary.

Continental hotel, Hurley, N. Y., destroyed.

Adirondack forest protection..

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Conclusion of report..

arch at Stony Point on October 17, 1908..

Aggressiveness of electric linemen.

Tree campaign in the courts..

Saratoga Springs State reservation created.

Geneva landmarks and gifts...

Niagara Falls:

Their preservation a question of inches..

International treaty submitted..

Burton law extended.

Conservation of natural resources:

White House conference..

Declaration of the Governors.

Jamestown island

Hetch-Hetchy Valley case..

Grand Canyon national monument established.

Conservation of nature and landmarks in Prussia.

Conservation of nature and landmarks in Russia.

Appendix A: Proceedings at the laying of the corner stone of the memorial

Appendix B: Revolutionary history of Fort Lee, N. J.

Appendix C: The Spoliation of Niagara Falls, by Prof. J. W. Spencer..

Appendix D: Kanadesaga, the last capital of the Seneca Indians..

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Niagara Falls, Map showing position of First Cascade, etc.

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Niagara Falls:

American branch

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Niagara Falls: Map of crest line..

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Niagara Falls:

Ontario Power Company's House

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Geneva, N.Y..:

Landmark map

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Geneva, N. Y.:

Map of Kanadesaga Castle, Burial Mound and Council Tree 304

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