Pelton Pond is a former iron ore shaft that was dammed in 1930. It is noted as early as 1788. Most of the ore raised in these mines was taken by horse and cart on the Cold Spring Turnpike, now Route 301, to Cold Spring to be smelted at the West Point Iron Company’s blast furnace, located on what is now Dockside Park on Cold Spring’s riverfront.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and some kind of legacy lens (I don’t remember which one).