For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Connie Tedesco, Otsego Land Trust, Inc.
Cooperstown, N.Y. (607) 547-2366
DATE:
13 September 2010
Hike the “Green Mile”
On September 21st, Otsego Land Trust, in partnership with the Adirondack
Mountain Club (ADK)—Susquehanna Chapter, will be sponsoring a public hike
along the “Green Mile”, a mile of protected shoreline at the confluence of Oaks
Creek and the Susquehanna River. Besides its natural beauty and ecological
importance, history abounds in Phoenix Mills, named for the cotton mill and saw
mill that once stood there. In William Cooper's Town, author Alan Taylor
identifies the Susquehanna River and Oaks Creek confluence as the home of
David Shipman, the early settler who inspired James Fenimore Cooper’s fictional
character Leatherstocking in The Pioneers and related novels. Prior to Shipman
the confluence area was inhabited by local tribes, according to David Staley,
archaeologist with New York State’s Cultural Resource Survey Program.
A carpool from Oneonta will meet at the Price Chopper parking lot at 9:30 a.m.
In northern Otsego County, meet at the east end of Phoenix Mills Cross Road,
past the Otsego Manor. The 2 hour walk will begin at 10:00 a.m. Bring a bag
lunch. For additional information, contact Otsego Land Trust (607) 547-2366,
connie@otsegolandtrust.org, or Mary Dunkle of the ADK Susquehanna Chapter,
(607) 547-2162.