Orange County, NY
Black Dirt Country
Outside of Florida in Orange County. A late April photograph.
Wurstboro Curve
The old Wurstboro Curve was known to be very taxing on the old fashioned cars brakes. The Quickway with its large sweeping curve is less steep and more gentle but it's hardly a flat road.Β
Thruway Newburgh Interchange (1995 vs 2018)
For many years there was no direct connection between interstate 84 and 87 in Newburgh.
Lake Washington
Lake Washington was expanded and put into service as a reservoir in 1907, although it had been providing water to its predecessor, Monell's Pond, since 1852. The dam has been raised many times since then to increase capacity.
In 2016 the city briefly declared a water emergency and started using Browns Pond, its backup supply, when levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) near the federal Environmental Protection Agency guidelines of 200 parts per trillion (ppt) were found in the lake. A pond on the Stewart Air Guard Base from which Silver Stream, one of Lake Washington's tributaries, rises, had levels of 5,900 ppt.
Downtown Newburgh
A look at Newburgh, looking up from the waterfront with Broadway in the center of the photo.
City of Newburgh – 1995, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2021
Looking at the City of Newburgh through the years.