Copake Iron Works Historic District
Copake Iron Works Historic District is a national historic district located at Copake Falls in Columbia County, New York. The district includes 11 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, eight contributing structures, and three contributing objects.Photo: IlyaSukhanov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic district in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Copake Iron Works Museum”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bash Bish Falls and Washburn Mountain.
Bash Bish Falls
Waterfall
Photo: HP R817, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bash Bish Falls, a waterfall in Bash Bish Falls State Park in the Taconic Mountains of southwestern Massachusetts, is the highest waterfall in the state.
Washburn Mountain
Peak
Washburn Mountain is a 1,496-foot-tall mountain in New York. It is located south-southeast Copake Falls in Columbia County. From 1932 to 1964, the mountain was the location of a 60-foot-tall steel fire lookout tower now located on Beebe Hill. Alander Mountain is located southeast of Washburn Mountain.
Alander Mountain
Peak
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alander Mountain is a 2,241-foot-tall part of the south Taconic Mountains in southwest Massachusetts and adjacent to New York. The summit is grassy and covered with scrub oak and shrubs; the sides of the mountain are heavily forested. Alander Mountain is situated 2 miles south of Copake Iron Works Historic District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Copake Falls and Taconic Shores.
Copake Falls
Village
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Copake Falls is a hamlet and census-designated place in Columbia County, New York, United States. The hamlet, once known as Copake Iron Works, is in the eastern part of the town of Copake, 1.5 miles west of the Massachusetts state line.
Taconic Shores
Hamlet
Taconic Shores is a residential development and census-designated place in Columbia County, New York, United States. The hamlet is near the geographic center of the town of Copake and surrounds Robinson Pond, a water body on the Roeliff Jansen Kill. Taconic Shores is situated 2 miles west of Copake Iron Works Historic District.
Mount Washington
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Washington is a tiny town in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. It is at the southwest corner of the state, the only Massachusetts town to border both New York and Connecticut.
Copake Iron Works Historic District
- Categories: historic district, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Columbia County, Mid-Hudson and Catskills, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.11926° or 42° 7′ 9″ northLongitude
-73.51377° or 73° 30′ 50″ westOpen location code
87J84F9P+PFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1550002485OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q5168285
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Copake Iron Furnace and Day Pond.
Nearby Places
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