Palisades, New York Snedens Landing by Robert Knox Sneden, 1858 Palisades, formerly known as Sneden's Landing, (pronounced SNEE-dens) is a hamlet in the Town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States, positioned north of Rockleigh and Alpine, New Jersey; east of Tappan; south of Sparkill; and west of the Hudson River.
The region commonly referred to as Snedens Landing is positioned inside the easterly portion of Palisades between U.S.
The hamlet has a registered historic precinct known as the Closter Road - Oak Tree Road Historic District.
The precinct comprises the region from the north side of Closter Road and south side of Oak Tree Road approximately 1/2 mile west of US Route 9 - W in Palisades.
(List of Registered Historic Places in Rockland County, New York) George Lockhart purchased 3,410 acres along the west bank of the Hudson River which would turn into Palisades, NY.
By 1702 there were two homes with 14 citizens , eight being slaves. During this reconstructionthe territory was claimed by both New York and New Jersey.
It placed Palisades just inside of New York. Mollie Sneden's grave marker in Palisades Cemetery Loyalties were split more than normally in such a conflict, because the region marked the dividing line between American and British combatants. This situation is demonstrated inside the family of Mollie Sneden, a legendary resident whose family name was given to Snedens Landing, as Palisades was known at that time.
He was allowed to keep the family ferry operating athwart the Hudson River to Dobbs Ferry amid the Revolution.
His natural disembarcation would have been Snedens Landing, directly athwart the river; but a force of 500 patriots armed with four cannon and a howitzer at Snedens Landing caused the British to reroute their crossing to Closter, farther south. In 1780 George Washington ordered a blockhouse to be assembled at Snedens Landing to serve as a guard for the ferry service, an intelligence center and a means of communication. The General is known to have passed through the region and visited the blockhouse a number of times, and the road descending to the site of the ferry is titled Washington Springs Road.
Across the river at Dobbs Ferry, General Washington prepared a campaign with Marshal Rochambeau to bring the war to an end at Yorktown. After its conclusion, the first official recognition of the infant United States was a 17-gun salute fired from the British warship HMS Perseverance which had sailed to Snedens Landing for General Sir Guy Carleton to meet General Washington at neighboring Tappan. In 1800 the populace of Palisades was 114. Because of the small-town topography the town was well suited to turn into a river center.
Rising from the west bank of the Hudson River, the Palisades Cliff forms an obstacle to transport seeking access to the river.
A break in the terrain occurs at Palisades, still known as Snedens Landing in the early 19th century, where the landscape is rugged but not precipitous.
It afforded New Jersey farmers the opportunity to bring their produce down Washington Springs Road to the river, where they could ship it athwart to the east side of the Hudson and continue down to New York City.
According to tradition, the stones cut from the Palisades Cliff paved many New York City streets, including Broadway. Snedens Landing provided these farmers and quarrymen with the first access for a stretch of about 13 miles above Burdetts Landing, or roughly the spot where the George Washington Bridge joins New Jersey and New York today.
The Sneden family, which continued to ferry passengers and goods athwart to Dobbs Ferry, also communicated with steamboat traffic, which could not dock in the shallow water at the shore, mid-river. The once grow river port transformed to an agriculture-based economy depending upon orchards, vineyards and farms. By the 1870s barns travel enabled wealthy New Yorkers to build cyclic homes in Palisades.
Access by car was facilitated in 1929 by the assembly of Route 9 - W, the George Washington Bridge connecting the east and west sides of the Hudson 1931, and the Palisades Parkway in 1955. Sneden's Landing is mentioned in Alec Wilder's song "Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden's?" In the 1997 film Men in Black Sneden's Landing is referred to as the locale of a hidden alien spaceship.
In the 1949 radio drama version the locale was changed to New York City and the murder site was The Palisades.
Cliffside (Palisades, New York) (NRHP) Washington Spring Road-Woods Road Historic District (NRHP) Sneden's Ferry - The Sneden family directed a ferry at Sneden's Landing along with John Dobbs, who directed from the opposite shore Dobbs Ferry, New York.
In 1775, when Martha Washington and her son John Parke Custis, George Washington's stepson, drove from Mount Vernon to Cambridge, Massachusetts to meet her husband, venerable ferry mistress Mollie Sneden (1709 1810) piloted her athwart the Hudson River.
Students in the Hamlet of Palisades attend South Orangetown Central School District.
Palisades Interstate Parkway [no exit in Palisades] Palisades is served by Rockland Coaches (also known as the Red & Tan Lines, directed by Coach USA), with incessant bus service via Route 9 - A to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal and via Route 9 - W/9 - T to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
The bus travels down Oak Tree Road and has its chief Palisades bus shelter at the intersection of Oak Tree Road and Route 9 - W.
Traveling northbound on these routes provides small-town service to locations throughout easterly Rockland County, including Nyack, Piermont, and New City. Chris Day, 2014 candidate for New York's 17th Congressional District Mollie Sneden - Ferry Mistress - See Places of Interest above.
Mary Lawrence [Tonetti] (1868 1945) - American sculptor and creative developer of "Snedens Landing Artists' Colony".
Katharine Cornell (1893 1974), American actress who rented the Log Cabin in Snedens Landing in the 1930s and 40s.
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing.
New York, NY: The Historical Society of Rockland County.
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing.
New York City: The Historical Society of Rockland County.
The Tonetti Years at Snedens Landing.
The New York Times.
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