You are looking for a small cache at Hudson Highland State Park - Little Stony Point, along the Cornish Trail. For details regarding the Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge, please see HH #1 Washburn Trail.
*** Please note – the area is full of poison ivy, please dress accordingly ***
As you walk north along the Cornich Trail, think back to those who were here before. The property was first developed by diamond merchant Sigmund Stern, who built an estate for himself on 650 acres of Breakneck Brook's watershed. The mansion and outbuildings were made of stone quarried from the southwest corner of nearby Breakneck Ridge. Within a few years of its completion, Stern's wife died, and he no longer wished to keep the estate. He sold it to Edward G. Cornish, then chairman of the board of the National Lead Company, one of the group of 30 companies whose share prices comprised the initial Dow Jones Industrial Average. Cornish and his wife moved in during 1916 and named the estate Northgate. Edward Cornish established a large dairy farm on the property, and ruins of structures built for that purpose, including a large cistern, are still visible along the stream.