Talk:Bear Mountain (Hudson Highlands)

Ghost stories?

When I was growing up, Bear Mountain was THE locus for every ghost story I ever heard. I didn't grow up all that close to it, so it became a mythical location where boy scouts and recently-married hikers went to get hacked to death. Does anyone else recall this location being a similar focal point for scary stories? Even better, can anyone find a source that confirms it wasn't just my family and friends? --Dmz5 07:21, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Whereabouts, roughly, did you grow up? Being an imported Pennsylvanian, I'm not really competent to answer the question — I'd look to see if the WeirdNJ folks have published anything about it, as they seem to spend a great deal of time collecting those kinds of stories. Choess 03:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Apropos of the above, the book "Weird New York" doesn't say anything about Bear Mountain, I'm afraid. Choess 20:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I grew up in NJ. Thanks for doing some research though!--Dmz5 10:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Class III Hike?

Having bushwacked up the east side of Bear Mountain on a number of occassions, I'm going to remove this comment as it's not verifiable and furthermore, in essence, it's wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calamitybrook (talk • contribs) 02:02, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Child endangerment case

I changed this heading from "murder case" for the sake of accuracy. I'd propose deleting the entire section because, although it might have some intrinsic interest, it's not particularly relevant. I moved it to the bottom of the article for now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calamitybrook (talk • contribs) 02:24, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This area has been inhabited for hundreds of years and various events have occurred during this period, a number of which are more significant than this case. I'm going to delete the section. If this is a problem, you can revert. Calamitybrook (talk) 23:52, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Iron mines

I just removed some unsourced and inaccurate material on iron-mining in the area.

It's a good topic to include, but only when sourced and accurate material is located.

Calamitybrook (talk) 15:43, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The Silvermine near Lake Tiorati was at one time an important metals source but I can't find anything specifically mentioning it in any source material. For people my age, Silvermine was just a nearby snow-skiing area which has long since been shut down. The closest to a relevant reference I've found so far is in a book called "Chaining the Hudson" by an author named Diamant. It spends two pages on sources of iron and other metals during the American Revolution. I would call that a source but I'm not so savvy on the wikipedia yet.

and again I forgot to sign my post: 68.115.35.110 (talk) 21:50, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Have you ever read Ed Lenik's "Iron Mine Trails"? I doubt the "silver mine" per se was a major operation, but there are lots of mine holes in the area, some of which were significant producers. (Forest of Dean Mine, now under a reservoir at West Point, was probably the closest major one, but I may be forgetting some...there are many small ones of course.) Choess (talk) 18:25, 25 December 2011 (UTC)