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Hudson landing from the "Half Moon." Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, while searching for a short passage to China and India, sailed by chance into what is now New York Bay; he started up the river...
At Rockland Lake, workmen sculpt huge blocks of ice into the boards, masts, and sails of explorer Henry Hudson's ship, the 'Half-Moon.' Hudson sailed up the river named for him in the fall of 1609. The event at Rockland Lake was the first of the...