Garrison, New York

Garrison
hamlet
The Garrison Art Center and other structures within the Garrison Landing Historic District.
Coordinates: 41°23′02″N73°56′44″W / 41.38389°N 73.94556°W / 41.38389; -73.94556
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Putnam
Town	Philipstown

Constitution Marsh in winter

Boscobel, a historic house museum in Garrison

The Garrison train wreck, 1897

Garrison is a hamlet in Putnam County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Philipstown, on the east side of the Hudson River, across from the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Garrison Metro-North Railroad station serves the town. Garrison, which is also known as Garrison's Landing, was named after 2nd Lieutenant Isaac Garrison, who held a property lot on the Hudson River across from West Point and conducted a ferry service across the Hudson River between the two hamlets. Isaac and his son Beverly Garrison fought in the Battle of Fort Montgomery in 1777, were captured by the British and later set free. ^[1]

The Garrison train wreck took place near Garrison on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad on October 24, 1897, killing 20 people. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Places of interest

• Manitoga is the extensive woodland gardens estate of modernist designer Russel Wright, and the location of his modern-style house Dragon Rock, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located 2.5 miles south of Garrison station and is operated by the non-profit Russel Wright Design Center, with tours and hiking trails.

• Boscobel, located 3.3 miles north of Garrison station, is a Federal-style mansion built 1804–1808 for States Dyckman and Elizabeth Dyckman, was originally located in Montrose, New York but was moved to Garrison and restored in the mid-20th century. ^[5] The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, founded in 1987 with its first performances at Manitoga, is now located at Boscobel.

• Constitution Marsh is an Audubon sanctuary 3.5 miles north of Garrison station with walking trails and canoe tours on the Hudson River. The Hudson Highlands Land Trust promotes and assists in local conservation efforts.

• The Philipstown Depot Theater is at the former train station at Garrison's Landing, next to today's Metro-North Garrison station, and was the Yonkers Train Station in Hello, Dolly!. ^[6]

• Graymoor, a Catholic monastery which serves as the headquarters of the Society of the Atonement, is located in Garrison. ^[7]

• The Garrison Institute is a progressive interfaith organization and retreat center.
• The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an internationally recognized bioethics think tank and research center.
• The Garrison Art Center promotes local and regional artists.
• The national corporate headquarters of Outward Bound USA, the worldwide premier outdoor adventure and educational organization is also located in Garrison.

Media

Garrison is served by two weekly newspapers: The Highlands Current , ^[8] founded in 2010 and published on Friday, and the Putnam County News & Recorder, founded in 1868 and published on Wednesday.

Schools

Garrisons students are served by the Garrison Union Free School, ^[9] a K–8 school. Graduating students have the choice of going to Haldane High School in Cold Spring or across the river to James O'Neill High School in Highland Falls for high school. ^[10]

Haldane High School is located in Cold Spring and was awarded a Blue Ribbon school in 2016. ^[11]

The Manitou Learning Center is a private Garrison school that emphasizes bilingual education, experiential learning and purposeful play.

Notable people

• Roger Ailes, Fox News CEO
• Thomas Harlan Ellett, architect
• Hamilton Fish, US Secretary of State
• Sergeant Hamilton Fish II, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Park Avenue Contingent", and the first of the Rough Riders to die, was killed near Sevilla, Cuba on June 23, 1898, and is buried in the St. Phillips Church Cemetery in Garrison, NY.
• Hamilton Fish III, US Congressman
• Isaac Garrison, 2nd Lieut. Revolutionary War, Captured by the British with 14 year old son, Beverly Garrison, Battle of Ft. Montgomery 1777. Founder of Garrison's Landing.
• James Gleick, writer
• Jim Hall, jazz musician, composer, and arranger lived in Garrison
• Patty Hearst, newspaper heiress and convicted bank robber, lives in Garrison
• Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook ^[12]
• Don McLean, singer-songwriter and guitarist ^[13]
• Juan Montoya, architect and interior designer, lives in Garrison
• George Pataki, New York State Governor, lives in Garrison
• John Pielmeier, playwright, screenwriter and novelis, lives in Garrison with his wife, writer Irene O'Garden.
• Edwards Pierrepont, prominent attorney, jurist, and orator. Built 1867 Hurst-Pierrepont Estate in Garrison.
• Andrew Revkin, New York Times environmental writer, lives in Garrison
• Duncan Sheik, songwriter, movie score contributor and Broadway composer, lives in Garrison.
• Julie Taymor, theater, film and opera director, lives in Garrison.
• Rhinelander Waldo, New York City fire commissioner and police commissioner
• Matt Williams, television producer, lives in Garrison.

In popular culture

For the 1969 film Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand, Garrison was the filming location for the Yonkers scenes. ^[14] The Saint Basil Academy in the town served as the finish line of The Amazing Race 10 in 2006.

References

1. Isaac Garrison Family Association (1980). The Family of Isaac Garrison, 1732-1836: Frontiersman and Soldier of the American Revolution. Schoonmaker Publishers.
2. "Harrison, NY Train Wreck". September 19, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2024– via Flickr.
3. "Harrison, NY Train Wreck". September 19, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2024– via Flickr.
4. Victims of 1897 Garrison train wreck, New York Public Library
5. Faber, Harold (March 3, 1991). "Sunday Outing; Worth $35 to a Wrecker, Boscobel Is Now a Gem". The New York Times . Retrieved March 8, 2024.
6. Cronin, Brian PJ (2019-03-01). "Getting to Know Garrison". Upstate House. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
7. "Graymoor: The Holy Mountain". Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
8. "The Current". The Highlands Currentaccessdate=December 30, 2024. December 16, 2023.
9. "Garrison Union Free School website". Archived from the original on 2008-02-15. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
10. Prentice, Anita (2004). "Garrison Union Free School District: A History Primer". Archived from the original on 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2008-01-24. When children graduate [...] and GUFSD pays tuition to those districts.
11. "National Blue Ribbon Schools Program" . Retrieved 2021-10-07.
12. Ellison, Sarah (July 2015). "The Complex Power Coupledom of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge". The Hive. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
13. "Don McLean". Archived from the original on 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
14. "Hello Dolly! Filming & Production". IMDB. February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 13, 2024.

External links

Media related to Garrison, New York at Wikimedia Commons