Proclaimed by royal decree almost three centuries ago this onetime Indian trail wound its way northward through Long Clove to the Hudson River below. Kings Highway's original purpose was military as the English Crown feared invasion by the French and Indians. Then sides changed. During the Revolutionary War when the British fleet often controlled the Hudson, this pass through the South Mountain or Verdrietege Hook enabled the American military to transport troops and supplies to the strategic forts at Stony Point and West Point and Forts Clinton and Montgomery. General Washington frequently came this way when visiting the forts or crossing the Hudson at the Stony Point Kings Ferry to communicate with the New England colonies. By the 19th century wagons, heavily loaded with enormous quantities of farm produce, wood, sandstone and granite, passed through the clove to the docks at Snedekers Landing (later Waldberg Landing) and Haverstraw where ships vied to carry the cargo to the New York markets. In the 1800s the fledgling Jersey City and Albany Railroad Company (later the N. Y. Central and West Shore R. R.) decided to extend their tracks from Congers to Haverstraw and the north. Prior to tunneling under the mountain the temporary rail line was constructed through the pass. From this point it then descended more than 100 feet to the riverfront by a series of three switchbacks, each almost a mile long.

Town of Clarktown 1997

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Snedekers Landing
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Congers School
Kings Highway
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