Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dain Collection
Hudson River Environmental Society Collection
Hudson River Environmental Society Library
Hudson River Valley Commission Collection: Records Relating to the Storm King Case, 1966 – 1967
Hudson River Valley Commission Collection: Records Relating to the 1965 – 1970 Surveys
Hudson River Valley Greenway Council Collection
Hudson Valley Green Collection
On the River
Saunders Papers
Scenic Hudson Collection: Records Relating to the Storm King Case, 1963 – 1981
Scenic Hudson, Inc. Administrative History Collection
Seymour Papers
The collection consists of correspondence, office records, reports, memoranda, newsletters, brochures, maps, newspaper clippings, press releases, opinion polls, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, books, and other printed material related to the founding and continuing work of the Hudson River Conservation Society as a private, non-profit, watchdog agency of the Hudson River Valley and its environment. The collection is maintained in its original order.
The Hudson River Conservation Society Collection was given to the Marist College Library by the F.D.R. Library, where it was donated by John Winthrop Aldrich on behalf of the Hudson River Conservation Society.
The Hudson River Conservation Society was incorporated September 3, 1936 in order to protect and maintain the beauties of the Hudson Valley, preserve its scenic and historic landmarks, eliminate pollution, develop recreational values, cooperate with industry and seek regulation where necessary to help achieve these aims, make a continuing survey of the river and its valley, and to receive funds to do so. In response to destructive quarrying at High Tor and Mount Taurus, the Hudson River Conservation Society was organized on April 15, 1936. Upon the creation of the Society, William Church Osborn served as President, with John Ross Delafield as Vice-President, Louis V. Ledoux as Treasurer and Margaret Gillmore as Secretary. Under their leadership, the Society sponsored two pieces of legislation; one created the Hudson Valley Commission to make a survey of the river and recommend a plan for its development and protection and the other permitted the State Conservation Commissioner to accept gifts of historic or scenic sites of interest.
The Hudson River Conservation Society played an active role in the preservation of historic and scenic sites in the Hudson Valley. Several purchases of land were made including the 1936 purchase of the north slope of Breakneck Mountain, which was eventually given to the Taconic State Park Commission, the Storm King section on the north face of Anthony’s Nose, which was eventually given to the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and the 1943 purchase of High Tor which was eventually handed over to the Palisades Park Commission. The publication of Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley was sponsored by the Society. Also, under the leadership of the Society, zoning regulations were enforced in Clarkstown in order to prevent quarrying by New York Trap Rock. The Hudson River Conservation Society also discouraged the building of the Storm King By-Pass, the Hudson River Tourway and the New York-New Jersey Turnpike-Thruway Link and supported the Palisades Interstate Parkway and the development of the Taconic State Parkway. The Society has been involved in developing marinas, watershed projects, sewage systems, conservation courses at colleges, backing legislation that protects the river and surrounding areas, and increasing awareness of these issues.
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A collection of materials gathered by the Hudson River Conservation Society, dealing with their own activities to preserve the Hudson River.
Original Order (alphabetical)
A collection of various newspaper articles organized in scrapbooks dealing with issues of the environment and legislation pertaining to that which the Society was interested in.
Original Order (chronological/ topical)