New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park
By E. Emory Davis and Eric Nelsen
Part of Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" Series
New Jersey’s Palisades Interstate Park was created in 1900 to preserve the majestic Palisades of the Hudson River from being defaced by massive stone quarries. In the generations since its creation, it has served as an oasis of beauty, recreation, and tranquility in the midst of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. The park has an archive of over 3,000 images of the Palisades. Photographs show the area decades before the park’s creation and through the 1930s and 1940s, when thousands sought recreation as an escape from hard times during the Great Depression and World War II and hundreds of men worked in the park for New Deal agencies.
E. Emory Davis began working for the park as a volunteer in high school and has continued to work there during her summers while earning a degree in linguistic anthropology at Barnard College. Eric Nelsen has served as a historical interpreter for the park since 1992 and as the director of the park’s historic Kearney House since 1998. In 2001, he served as project coordinator for a video documentary, A New Deal for the Palisades.
New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park is available for purchase at State Line Lookout, Park Headquarters, the Kearney House, Fort Lee Historic Park, at area booksellers, and through online merchants.
To order by mail: please send check for $22 per book (includes $2 shipping/handling) to Palisades Interstate Park Commission, P.O. Box 155, Alpine, NJ 07620-0155, attn: Kearney House. Please remember to include shipping instructions and daytime phone number.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One
Rocks that Look Like TreesChapter Two
Along America's Main StreetChapter Three
The Gilded EdgeChapter Four
The Push for PreservationChapter Five
The Great Playground Next DoorChapter Six
A New Deal for the PalisadesChapter Seven
An Oasis in the Modern World
