Watchtower sells more property / land

[Jack Ryan]

River-to-River Trail to Provide a Pedestrian Route to Gunks

The Open Space Institute (OSI), a New York environmental conservation group dedicated to protecting and enhancing recreational access to local landscapes... purchased the plot of land between New Paltz and the mountains from Watchtower Society of New York, a Jehovah’s Witnesses group, for $2.1 million. The westernmost part of the trail will be inland owned by Mohonk Preserve.

http://oracle.newpaltz.edu/river-to-river-trail-to-provide-a-pedestrian-route-to-gunks/

From the Open Space Institute's website:

River-to-Ridge Trail to Feature Local Agrarian Culture: http://www.osiny.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9339

Map of Trail: http://www.osiny.org/site/DocServer/River_to_Ridge_Trail_overview_7.27.pdf?docID=15461

[JW Insider]

This is a beautiful area. There are still places where you can get good land for just several hundred dollars an acre in upstate New York, but this area is gorgeous. I've stayed in the Mohonk Mountain House (resort hotel) for business conferences, and even went back up there once on my own to do research for an author at New Paltz. An elderly woman at the Historical Society up there is probably no longer alive, but was a walking, talking database of everything anyone wanted to know about genealogies of hundreds, maybe thousands of people from the 1600's through the 1800's in NY and environs. I asked her about an obscure name and she pulled out an old Bible that belonged to that family with the particular person's name in it. I was just amazed at her knowledge and her helpfulness.

[TrueTomHarley]

On 5/8/2017 at 7:14 PM, Jay Witness said:

purchased the plot of land between New Paltz and the mountains from Watchtower Society of New York, a Jehovah’s Witnesses group, for $2.1 million. The westernmost part of the trail will be inland owned by Mohonk Preserve.

Shortly after construction of the Henrietta Assembly Hall, Kodak purchased adjacent land. The brothers were delighted. It probably meant the land would be rural forever. There was already a high-tech Kodak facility nearby and there apparently just wanted bigger buffers. (there was a rumor that they also wanted to buy the Hall itself)

We all know what happened to the K. The land was resold long ago and there is now a housing tract abutting the Assembly Hall.