| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5303 |  | Details | Colvin, Verplanck | 1873 |
| First map Hudson River headwater Lake Tear of The Clouds |
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Colvin, Verplanck |
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| 1873 |
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| $350.00 | Colvin--Verplanck | First-map-Hudson-River-headwater-Lake-Tear-of-The-Clouds | This gem is the first published map of the ultimate headwater for the Hudson River- <b>Lake Tear of the Clouds</b> (near Keene, NY) by Verplanck Colvin. A fine topographic map with 100 foot contour intervals from Colvin's 1873 Adirondacks Survey Report. Plate 6. Lithographed by Weed, Parsons and Company, Albany, N. Y. Scarce.
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One thousand feet below the summit of Mt. Marcy on the southwest slope, Lake Tear of the Clouds is the highest pond in the state of New York. Verplanck Colvin and William Nye were the first white men to discover Lake Tear of the Clouds and to take the time to explore and document its flow to the south to the Hudson River.
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Verplanck Colvin (1847–1920) was a lawyer and topographical engineer whose understanding and appreciation for the environment of the Adirondack Mountains was born exploring the Adirondack wilderness as a teenager. Colvin saw first hand how over-logging of the Adirondack wilderness reduced the water supply for downstream rivers, streams, and canals. He realized that the effects of this ecological mismanagement threatened the water supply of the Erie Canal, important to the economy of New York State.
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Colvin's observations and relentless enthusiasm led the legislature to name him Superintendent of the New York state land survey and later to the establishment of Adirondack Forest Preserve in 1885.
Contour interval 100 feet. |