[5] The area of Rifle Camp Park served as a location where Washington’s troops could observe British movements during the Revolutionary War in 1780.

[6] Parr and his riflemen (the rifle corps originally commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan) previously achieved notice in the Sullivan Expedition in 1779.

[7] In October, 1780, Parr and his rifle corps had been assigned to protect the strategic pass at the Great Notch from British incursion, but ultimately stayed for just one week.

It is at Ryder’s farm that Joshua Hett Smith, a lawyer from Haverstraw, New York who aided the treasonous Benedict Arnold and British Major John André, was supposedly granted hospitality during his escape from American imprisonment.

The eastern limit of the parkland consists of nearly vertical basalt cliffs that provide panoramic views of the surrounding area.