
Stop 12: "Site of the Coddington House"
In 1874, George Coddington acquired land from a member of another old-time Trapps family, the Burgers, and built a house here. The depressio...
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Bob Larsen's audio tour for the Trapps Mountain Hamlet Path to the Van Leuven Cabin. Explore the traces of a 19th century mountaintop community by visiting the Mohonk Preserve. Once home to...

In 1874, George Coddington acquired land from a member of another old-time Trapps family, the Burgers, and built a house here. The depressio...

The family of Eli Van Leuven evidently never dug a well. Instead, they depended for their drinking water on a spring located down slope from...

Here is one of the few remaining homes of the nearly vanished Trapps Mountain Hamlet. Its small size and simple, unadorned lines were typica...

Look up the Old Van Leuven Road, now cutting through dense forest, and try to imagine the scene a century ago when the area was open to the...

Here is one of the several family burying grounds established by the people of the Trapps Mountain Hamlet as an alternative to public cemete...

Here you can see the Coxing Kill flowing over conglomerate outcrops amid large boulders. The Coxing is a major stream flowing down from Lake...

Shortly after crossing the auto road, you turn left and enter onto an old dirt road. This road was an early track leading to the pioneer Van...

Just ahead is Trapps Road, an automobile road that was laid down on top of a much older road called the Wawarsing-New Paltz Turnpike. The tu...

Here the trail crosses over an old stone fence, leaving one property and entering onto another. The lands ahead belonged to Ben Fowler who o...

Here, the trail crosses a brook located at a point where a farm wagon road once crossed the stream. Its existence is indicated by a number o...

Here you will see a large, rounded piece of Shawangunk Conglomerate (sometimes called Shawangunk Grit) that a millstone cutter abandoned lon...

Even when cleared of trees, the relatively thin soil, with many rocks and boulders jutting up, provided only marginal pastureland able to su...