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General News: New Sign for Pagenstecher Park
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| The new Pagenstecher sign. |
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| The old park sign was covered in mold. |
July 29, 2009
A new sign in the village welcomes visitors to a small triangle of green off Dock Hill Road, a place called Pagenstecher Park.
The sign, which was installed last week, replaces the original sign that had been left covered with mold after years of neglect.
When Mayor Joseph Gross entered office in 2007, he focused on improving that corner of the village, declaring the conditions in Pagenstecher Park an eyesore. Since then, he has worked with the state DOT to repair and restore an historic stone bridge at the top of Dock Hill Road and to re-landscape a pocket of greenery at the bridge where visitors can sit on a bench and admire Storm King Mountain.
Pagenstecher Park was donated to the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson in 1937 by the daughter of Albrecht and Helene Pagenstecher.
Albrecht built the first wood pulp processing factory in the United States in the mid -1800s, revolutionizing the papermaking industry. He and his family built a summer home on the side of Storm King Mountain in the early 1900s. (Read a full account of the Pagenstecher family’s connection to Cornwall-on-Hudson and Albert’s impact on the paper industry here.)
Descendants of the Pagenstecher family.donated the new sign.
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I adore Pagenstecher Park. When my kids were little we used to go there and fill water jugs with the cool, fresh mountain water. That is, until it became contaminated with e-coli. ( I noticed a poo smell one day after we had filled up some jugs.)They had to close down the pipe. How sad. See the related story on deer management for more discussion of run-off.
posted by Kate Benson on 08/03/09 at 10:30 PM
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