only surviving piece of the boom and chain is currently on display at Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh, New York. Several decades after independence, Thomas Cole started an artistic movement by painting America's wild and rugged landscapes— especially, at first, the Highlands— with the stark contrasts and shadows they offered, in a way that suggested raw nature, a world reborn. After the movement had faded, a critic derisively referred to the movement as the Hudson River School; the name stuck as the label for the new nation's first homegrown artistic movement. In the early 20th century, in response to damage caused by quarrymen and loggers in the Highlands, local conservationists began to press for public ownership of the area's woods and mountains. Their efforts paid off in the first of several state parks that now blanket the chain. Later that century, an ambitious power-generating plan that would have dug into Storm King Mountain led to a landmark lawsuit by environmental groups that made history when the judge ruled that aesthetic impacts of such large projects could be considered and that a coalition of citizen groups had legal standing. This landmark lawsuit formed the basis for a large body of case law concerning environmentalism. Mountains of the Hudson Highlands East (north to south) Bald Hill Lamb's Hill Lamb's Hill West Beacon Mountain (North and South) Scofield Ridge (highest point in Putnam County, in Philipstown) Sugarloaf Mountain Breakneck Ridge Bull Hill aka Mt. Taurus South Redoubt and North Redoubt aka Fort Hill Fort Defiance Hill Denning Hill Sunset Point Sugarloaf Hill White Rock Canada Hill Anthony's Nose Manitou Mountain West (north to south) Storm King Mountain Black Rock Crow's Nest Popolopen Torne Bear Mountain West Mountain Bald Mountain Spy Rock Eagles Cliff Dunderberg Mountain Long Mountain Sutherland Ridge Stillman Hill Arthur Hill Chatfield Hill Buckberg Protected areas of the Hudson Highlands Bear Mountain State Park Black Rock Forest Harriman State Park Hudson Highlands State Park Manitoga Sterling Forest State Park Storm King State Park Gallery References External links USGS - The Highlands Province NYS - Hudson Highlands State Park Hudson Valley Landforms of Orange County, New York Landforms of Rockland County, New York Landforms of Dutchess County, New York Landforms of Putnam County, New York Tourist attractions in Dutchess County, New York Mountain ranges of New York (state) Highlands