Steel and Grit

A History of the Lower Hudson Valley and the Bear Mountain Bridge

Barbara Hansen Cali (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2025
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-1197-4 (ISBN)

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Straddling the Hudson where the river begins to narrow and twist in its journey, Bear Mountain Bridge stands as an elegant memorial to the shifting industrial culture of the United States between the two world wars. Once the longest suspension bridge in the world and meant to serve as a necessary industrial connector while preserving the region’s scenic beauty, the Bear Mountain Bridge was a titanic undertaking that dramatically reshaped the Hudson Valley. Steel and Grit tells the story of the valley at a moment of great change.

Drawing on a trove of archival materials, Cali traces the Bear Mountain Bridge’s construction, from the selection of the land to the role of Gilded Age icons such as E. H. Harriman and financier J. P. Morgan, to the formation of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and the New Jersey women’s clubs that were pivotal to the fundraising efforts. Steel and Grit examines the importance of Bear Mountain Bridge, both as a symbol of twentieth-century American ingenuity and as an enduring steel symbol of the Hudson Valley.

Barbara Hansen Cali is a Brooklyn-born amateur historian and retired management executive in commercial real estate and commercial construction industries. She was vice president of property management for the New Jersey Division of Reckson Associates. She is a member of the Orange County Historical Society and has published several articles in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society and The Westchester Historian.

Introduction
1. You are Cordially Invited to Join Us at the Opening Ceremonies for the Bear Mountain Bridge
2. The Valley
3. Wall Street and Railroads
4. The Right Man for the Job
5. The Original Jersey Girls
6. A Perfect Candidate
7. A Partnership Is Formed
8. Progress and Development
9. The Devil's Horse Race
10. The Chief Engineer
11. Like Father, Like Son
12. We Must Not Forget
13. A Man With a Plan
14. Baird
15. Bear Mountain Hudson River Bridge Company
16. Terry and Tench
17. A Difference of Opinion
18. Construction Begins
19. Innovations
20. The Bond
21. Remembering
22. Update - 1927 Through Present
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	New York State Series
Zusatzinfo	34 black and white - 1 Maps
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-8156-1197-8 / 0815611978
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-1197-4 / 9780815611974
Zustand	Neuware