Editing Alpine, New Jersey (section)

==Points of interest==
Rio Vista is an upscale neighborhood in the southern section of Alpine. Rio Vista is home to Devil's Tower, a stone water tower that is claimed to be haunted. It was originally designed by [[Charles Rollinson Lamb]] for sugar baron [[Manuel Rionda]] (1854–1943) in order to allow his wife to see New York from the New Jersey side of the [[Hudson River]]. The legend has it that when his wife saw him with another woman, she committed suicide by jumping off the tower.<ref name="scripophily.net">[http://www.scripophily.net/riovistaland.html Riovista Land Corporation certificate], accessed January 30, 2007.</ref>

After becoming upset over his wife's death, Rionda stopped all work on the tower.<ref name="scripophily.net"/> In reality Harriet Rionda died of natural causes in 1922 and was interred nearby for approximately 20 years. Her coffin was moved to [[Brookside Cemetery, Englewood]]. The estate was later sub-divided into 197 housing sites consisting of miles of roadway, infrastructure, and related facilities in the mid-1980s.<ref name=Thinking1997>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-alpine-nj-lavish-homes-millionaire-s-borough.html "If You're Thinking of Living In/ Alpine, N.J.; Lavish Homes in a Millionaire's Borough"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 14, 1997. Accessed August 26, 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.riovista.net/projects/completed/alpine.html Rio Vista, Alpine-Cresskill, NJ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106204828/http://www.riovista.net/projects/completed/alpine.html |date=2009-01-06 }}, Rio Vista. Accessed June 30, 2011.</ref>

The New Jersey Section of the [[Palisades Interstate Park]] runs the length of Alpine along the top of the [[New Jersey Palisades]] and along the [[Hudson River]]. The Alpine Boat Basin serves as both a public picnic area and small marina for private boats. The area is a scenic riverfront picnic area and boat basin, plus beach for car-top boat launches (canoe and kayak), with fishing, access to hiking trails and Henry Hudson Drive, restrooms, water, vending machines, and public phones. Alpine Pavilion, an open-air stone picnic pavilion built in 1934 by the [[Civil Works Administration]] and available for rental is located here, as well as the historic [[Blackledge-Kearney]] House, said to be the site where [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]] and his troops landed on November 20, 1776, in their pursuit of the [[Continental Army]] following the rout of [[George Washington]]'s forces in the [[New York and New Jersey campaign|Battle of New York]].<ref name=Thinking1997/><ref>[http://www.njpalisades.org/alpinePicnic.html Alpine Picnic Area], [[Palisades Interstate Park]]. Accessed September 5, 2017.</ref>