Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — PALISADES TO BE A PARK [ARTICLE]

PALISADES TO BE A PARK

Interstate Deal Saves West Bank of Hudson For the People. New York, Sept. 28.—Fourteen years of effort to save the Palisades of the west bank of the Hudson river from destruction by blasting have been crowned with success. The purchase of the Palisades from Fort Lee, N. J., to Piermont, N Y has been announced. This strip of land and precipitous cliff, fourteen miles long, constitutes one of the most picturesque bits of scenery in the state, and under the plan by which the work of redemption has been accomplished it will become the Palisades interstate pa* - !*’.