This and the next shot show additional panorama along the river front. From the previously cited web site: "Just south of downtown Cold Spring is a placid wooded area that was once the site of the "deep breathing..furnaces, and the sullen, monotonous pulsations of trip hammers"* of the well-known West Point Foundry. The foundry, which began operations in 1817 and continued through the 1880s, was the "most extensive and complete of the iron works of the United States."*

This and the next shot show additional panorama along the river front. From the previously cited web site: "Just south of downtown Cold Spring is a placid wooded area that was once the site of the "deep breathing..furnaces, and the sullen, monotonous pulsations of trip hammers"* of the well-known West Point Foundry. The foundry, which began operations in 1817 and continued through the 1880s, was the "most extensive and complete of the iron works of the United States."*