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unusual facts about Bear Mountain



Bids for the 1932 Winter Olympics

It saw Lake Placid, United States, be selected ahead of the US candidates Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Bear Mountain, Duluth, Minneapolis and Denver, and Oslo, Norway and Montreal, Canada.

Rushmore Memorial Library

His use of uncut stone was in keeping with both the principles of the American Arts and Crafts movement and other nearby rustic stone architecture, such as the gatehouse at the F.F. Proctor estate a few miles away and the structures built for Harriman and Bear Mountain state parks and the new gated community of Tuxedo Park.


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Julius Erasmus Hilgard

His first practical employment was in the preliminary surveys of the Bear Mountain railroad, then a new enterprise, hut his mental activity in a higher sphere soon manifested itself in a communication to Mr. Bache, made in January, 1844, in which he called attention to errors in the formulas used in the Coast Survey in the computation of geographical positions, and gave his own development of correct formulas.

Michelle Dumaresq

The first event Dumaresq entered was the Bear Mountain race held in Mission, BC in May 2001.

U.S. Route 9W

The Orange County line is crossed just before Bear Mountain Circle.