42. Thacher: Escarpment Rim 🧗
830 Thacher Park Rd, Voorheesville, NY 12186
Got my steps 👣 and views 🔭 in today along with many other folks with the same wonderful idea 🍂, as I visited the Escarpment Rim 🧗 (this pictorial), Indian Ladder 🪜 (next pictorial), and Paint Mine 🎨 (3rd in this series) in the epic Thacher State Park.
The Park is named after John Boyd Thacher (1847 – 1909), a former Albany mayor and New York State senator. His widow, Emma Treadwell Thacher, donated the original land for the park in his memory.
Please remember 📢: “PEOPLE WALKING BELOW / DO NOT THROW ANYTHING OFF CLIFF!!!” Safety first ⛑️.
The Tory Cave: During the American Revolution, a British loyalist, or Tory, named Jacob Salisbury, led raids on patriot farms in the valley below. After burning and looting, the raiders escaped to this well-hidden cave. Smoke rising through the cave’s natural chimney eventually drew a search party here. The story is told that Salisbury was captured, tried, and hanged in this hideout, which then became known as the “Tory House.”
In vain they search!
From out a hidden cave,
The entrance like to
many others more
Of crevices among the
placid rocks,
The spy looked down and
grimly watched secure
Their every act as
fearlessly they moved;
Nor knew their danger.
Dearly would he sell
His life if found, this
strange and silent foe!
—Excerpt from Magdalene Merritt’s “The Tory Spy,” Helderberg Harmonies, 1909.
12 pics:
1 - landscape painting in visitor center 🖼️
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12 - a notice 🪧 atop a waterfall
