1901 Map of West Point

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West Point dominates the western bank of the Hudson River in this turn-of-the-century topographic study, showing the military academy alongside its historic neighbor Ft. Putnam. The river corridor is a hive of industrial-era transport, with the West Shore Railroad and the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad hugging opposite banks. To the east, the landscape transitions into the steep highlands of Philipstown and Putnam Valley, where isolated hamlets like Mc Keel Corners and Dennytown dot the interior ridges. The eastern edge of the map reveals the industrial footprint of the Mahopac Mines and the Mahopac Mines Branch, highlighting the area's history of resource extraction before the expansion of the New York City watershed system. Numerous family-named corners, such as Nelson Corners and Adams Corners, provide a rich record of the rural population centers that defined the region before the rise of modern suburbanization.