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Owned by New York state and maintained by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Bannerman’s Island is quite a sight for anyone riding the train past Beacon. There, on a 6.5-acre rocky island, stand the ruins of a Scottish castle in the Hudson Highlands.
Stepping off onto Bannerman’s Island, just yards from the dock, are towering castle walls.
“So all of this Scottish design – thistles and brick, mortar, stucco to look like a Scottish castle even though built in the early 1900s – has a look from Middle Ages. And he loved that being of Scottish descent and very proud.”
That’s Sheldon Stowe, a member of the Bannerman Castle Trust. The “he” Stowe is referring to is Francis Bannerman. Bannerman was in the family business of buying and selling scrap and surplus military equipment. Pollepel Island its actual name was also of historical military significance in the Revolutionary War.
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