Historical Marker
Purgatory Hill
Historical marker location:
Pawling, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Quaker Hill Road (County Road 67) and Akindale Road, on the left when traveling east on Quaker Hill Road.)
The Hudson River School of painting, which was a 19th-century art movement that focused on landscapes and the natural world, was founded in New York State. Some of its most famous artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley.