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Conveniently
located 50 miles north of New York City, and just 5 miles north of
the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, in scenic
Eastern Orange County, Cornwall is situated in the valley formed by
Schunemunk Mountain and the Hudson Highland ridges along the Hudson
River. Cornwall encompasses the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, as
well as the historic hamlets of Bethlehem, Mountainville, Salisbury
Mills, Canterbury and Idlewild. In 1609, the English navigator Henry
Hudson, thinking he was in a straight leading to the Pacific, sailed
up the Hudson and, reaching shallow water, anchored off what is now
Cornwall, recording in his ship's log: "This is a very pleasant
place to build a town on."
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