THE LANDMARKS ;ft 



Europe by the Dufours. This tree, which bears a 

 Summer Bel] pear, still gives an annua] crop of 

 its indifferent fruit. Jusl beyond is the hillside 

 where the plantings were made, and the remnant of 

 a stone wall marks one of the boundaries of the 

 vineyard. The hillsides are covered with red cedars, 

 with now and theu a 

 honey locust, and the 

 open places support a 

 bountiful crop of mul- 

 leins and teasels. The 

 slopes are very rocky, 



the OUtcrop in lower H*.4. Site of the house at "First 



l ,. l l m Vineyard." 



levels being rrentou 



limestone, and in the higher courses the lower and 

 middle Hudson sandstones. This hillside, where once 

 tli'- vine was planted with prophetic hope, is now a 

 sheep pasture; and only tradition remains to recall 

 the struggles and the disappointments of a noble 

 ••and of pioneers whose labor, though fruitiest 

 themselves, was fraught with blessings for the years 

 to come. 



'/'//- Second Experiment of th Dufourt 



Although wine had been made in the Kentucky 

 vineyard for two or three years, it was evidenl to the 

 colonists that the enterprise was doomed t<. failure, 

 tal Bickness had overtaken th.- vines. In 1802, 

 certain of the colon) Bought a aew location. Going 

 down th.- Kentucky River t«. its month, the} ascended 

 , ' 1 *' <),li " for a few miles, and chose th.- bottom of the 

 n.-h .-uid gentlj rising vallej of what is now the 

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