tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post5235714808504244387..comments2024-03-28T14:37:17.081-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: A Hundred-Year-Old LawsuitCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-21196747432373560522013-03-06T17:27:05.972-05:002013-03-06T17:27:05.972-05:00Thanks for the clarification Gossips. I guess I ju...Thanks for the clarification Gossips. I guess I just see red when I think of conveyor systems.unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-62118669785758065612013-03-06T17:05:47.009-05:002013-03-06T17:05:47.009-05:00No. The stone house belonged to Stephen Heermance:...No. The stone house belonged to Stephen Heermance: http://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2010/03/footnote-to-history-stephen-t-b.html. <br /><br />I didn't take the time to go to the History Room to try to find out where exactly the Peter Van Deusen homestead was before publishing this, but I will. Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-6977584809546823822013-03-06T16:49:47.192-05:002013-03-06T16:49:47.192-05:00What an interesting find! Thanks for transcribing ...What an interesting find! Thanks for transcribing it.<br /><br />Is the Van Deusen homestead - later the Fred Jones and then the Shults residence - the same stone house that still stands beneath the remains of the conveyor on Route 9?<br /><br />If so, then it was that conveyor that was "daily showering the Shults property."<br /><br />I love the antiquated geology that believed that the Palisades (ca. late Triassic) and Becraft Mountain (ca. late Silurian) were each "uplifted by volcanic eruption centuries ago." Neither were uplifted by volcanism, but by deposition above and by the lateral tectonic folding of the earth's accordion crust, an idea that pretty much only existed in one man's mind in 1916.<br /><br />Also, I doubt that there were any other limestone outcroppings east of the Hudson River to be mined out, so it's possible that the claim Becraft was "the last outcropping" was just rhetoric, a lawyer's trick.<br /><br />In any event, who doesn't love a court case where "miniature machines will probably be introduced"? <br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.com