BGuthrie Photos: NY -- Grant Cottage State Historic Site -- Views from Mt McGregor

NY -- Grant Cottage State Historic Site -- Views from Mt McGregor:

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Description of Pictures: These are views of the valley from Mt McGregor. There's a monument indicating where Grant sat when he last saw the valley.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GCABVW_080605_010.JPG: This stone marks the spot where General U.S. Grant had his last view of the valley July 20, 1885
2. GCABVW_080605_027.JPG: Grant's Last Trip to the Eastern Outlook: On July 20, 1886, three days before his death, General Grant, unable to speak, passed a note to his doctor requesting to be taken to the Eastern Outlook. Because of his weakened state, Grant was carried there in his bath chair by his son, Colonel Fred Grant; his valet, Harrison Tyrell; and Dr. John Douglas. "What do you think of my taking the bath wagon and going down to overlook the south rim?" "... old photographs show the General seated in small rustic building on the edge of the Mountain. This building has given place to the monument." -- Excerpt from "The Passing of the Pine," by J.F. O'Neill, in the Mount McGregor Optimist, January 1923. "After the last page of his book was finished, General Grant determined to make the most of his now rapidly failing strength, in visiting, before he should die, the Easter Outlook of the mountain, that he might gaze upon the wondrous scene there spread before him..." -- Excerpt from The Historic Muse of Mount McGregor, One of the Adirondacks Near Saratoga, by Nathaniel B. Sylvester, 1886. "There is a spot here known as the Eastern Lookout, which few visitors fail to see and which is a delight to all. It commands a broad sweep of valley, with the Green Mountains banking the eastern horizon, the Adirondacks looming up in the north, and the outlines of the Catskills traced against the southern sky. One may rest there in rustic chairs under a pavilion ingeniously built of tree limbs and branches yet in the bark, and look out upon a scene that has no equal for pastoral repose in this region." -- New York Times, July 21, 1885.
3. GCABVW_080605_034.JPG: Target Northwest Distribution Center
4. GCABVW_080605_037.JPG: The Ace Hardware Retail Support Center is beyond the monument
5. GCABVW_080605_045.JPG: The Ballard School is on the left. The Ace Hardware Retail Support Center would be located off the edge on the right.
6. GCABVW_080605_054.JPG: Target Northwest Distribution Center next to Exit 18 of the highway
7. GCABVW_080605_061.JPG: The Saratoga Monument is in the distance. You'll see it a few more times.
8. GCABVW_080605_072.JPG: The Saratoga Monument is in the center of the picture
9. GCABVW_080605_085.JPG: The Hotel and Ulysses S. Grant at Mt. McGregor: Mt. McGregor developed as a resort after a road with a small hotel (now Grant Cottage) were built by Duncan McGregor in the 1870s. A group of investors recognized the site's potential and, in 1882, built a railroad line here from Saratoga Springs. Two years later, the luxurious Hotel Balmoral opened to guests advertising "No Dew, No Malaria, No Mosquitoes, Certain Relief from Hay Fever." As many as seven trains a day traveled to and from the mountains. The Balmoral provided accommodations for Grant's friends and visitors, and for the reporters who kept a constant vigil on Grant. The hotel burned in 1897, and the railroad was dismantled in 1899. In the summer of 1885 while trying to complete his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant was dying of throat cancer. His doctors recommended that Grant leave the heat and humidity of New York City. Joseph W. Drezel offered the Grants use of his cottage on Mt. McGregor. They accepted, arriving here on June 16.
10. GCABVW_080605_089.JPG: Before arriving at Mt. McGregor, Grant had begun writing his memoirs. Grant's friend, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) had agreed to publish the book through his firm, Charles L. Webster & Co. It was hoped that public demand for the book would insure financial security for Grant's wife Julia. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and Commanding General of the Union Army during the Civil War, died the morning of July 23, 1885, just days after completing his Personal Memoirs.
11. GCABVW_080605_091.JPG: Preserving the Cottage and the Monument: After the hotel burned, the cottage and the outlook were preserved, first by the Grant Army of the Republic, and then by New York State. Today, the Friends of Ulysses S. Grant Cottage manage the site in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the New York State Department of Corrections. "The monument is built upon a concrete base and has a protective railing placed there by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to prevent visitors from taking chips off the monument which some years ago had to be recut because of that reason." -- Excerpt from "The Passing of the Pine," by J.F. O'Neill in the Mount McGregor Optimist, Jan, 1923.
12. GCABVW_080605_101.JPG: Glens Falls would be on the left. The South Glens Falls Water Rower is visible just to left of exit 17 from the interstate highway. The Taconic Mountains are in the background.
13. GCABVW_080605_102.JPG: The South Glens Falls Water Rower on the left with Exit 17 to the right of it.
14. GCABVW_080605_119.JPG: The Catskills Mountains would be in distant left
15. GCABVW_080605_133.JPG: Target Northwest Distribution Center
16. GCABVW_080605_135.JPG: Again, the Saratoga Monument is in the distance
Wikipedia Description: Grant Cottage State Historic Site
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Grant Cottage State Historic Site, on the slope of Mount McGregor in Wilton, New York is an Adirondack mountain cottage owned by banker Joseph W. Drexel. It was the site where Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885, and is a New York State Historic Site.

Visitors can tour the historic house museum which has been furnished to reflect the Grant family's stay for six weeks in 1885. Some of the original floral arrangements from the funeral are on display, the bed in which he died is shown in the bedroom. The clock that was at the cottage when he died was stopped on July 23, 1885 by Julia Grant, and can be seen in the home. A marker is located outside the cottage on the spot where Grant had his last look of the valley, it had to be gated off because many people would chip off pieces as souveniers. A visitor center and gift shop are also located there. A plaque is located a short distance away from the cottage and memorializes the fact that Grant died there. A New York historic marker is located a few yards from the cottage.
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