How about some senic shots?

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[quote name='jmp883' date='20 October 2009 - 10:02 AM' timestamp='1256046152' post='343687']

Next I crossed Ringwood to Ringwood State Park. Ringwood State Park consists of 3 separate areas: Ringwood Manor, Skylands Manor, and Sheperd Lake. This is Ringwood Manor. Ringwood Manor was one of George Washington's HQs during the Revolutionary War. Ringwood was a major iron mining area and iron from Ringwood mines was used for the chain drawn across the Hudson River just south of West Point, NY. Over the years Ringwood Manor was home to Robert Erskine, Martin Ryerson, Peter Cooper, and Abram Hewitt, all prominent names in Revolutionary, as well as Ringwood, history.



Here is the Manor

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Very nice series Joe. I know that I'm commenting almost 9 months after you posted and at first thought I might have already but after checking can't find anything. Believe it or not I've only been to Ringwood Manor House once about ten years ago, despite the fact that one of my great-grandfathers was a foreman at the house for Mr Hewitt back in the late 19th century with my grandmother born in a house that was across from the school on what became reservoir property.



Anyway getting back to fire, about 30 years ago one day I was out for a little spin at about noon on a Saturday going past the entrance when I heard the unmistakable sound of a Gamewell diaphone air honr blowing twice. I asked my friends in the Ringwood companies and PD but nobody knew what it could be. When the family went through the house I noticed two Gamewell horns atop the back part of the roof of the main house. A park ranger told me that in years past before cellphones, pagers and even hand held radios the horns had been used for a number of reasons such as calling the park staff in the event of a fire or emergency on the grounds with box signals for various sections of the park.