An outdoor industrial archaeology site featuring preserved ironworks ruins, interpretive exhibits, scenic trails, and restored natural habitats that reveal the history of a major nineteenth-century manufacturing complex.
Free and open year-round
How to Get There
From Cold Spring: Head east from Main Street to Kemble Avenue and follow signs to the preserve entrance at 68 Kemble Avenue, just a short distance from the village center and Metro-North station.
Overview
West Point Foundry Preserve in Cold Spring is an open-air museum in the Hudson Highlands on the site of a major ironworks that made steam engines, locomotives, water pipes, and the Parrott rifles used in the Civil War. Preserved ruins, reconstructed features, and interpretive displays cover machine shops, furnaces, and casting facilities, with observation areas over wetlands and woodlands. It is part of a National Historic Landmark.
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