page_title: Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Col. Beverley Robinson's house, opposite West Point, which was occupied by American Revolutionary War turncoat Benedict Arnold as his headquarters. At one time it was the property of Hamilton Fish.
context_page_description: Sugarloaf Hill is a 785 ft peak along the Hudson River in Putnam County, New York, part of the Hudson Highlands. It was named by the Dutch for its resemblance in outline to a sugarloaf when sailing up the river towards it.
context_section_description: Beverley, the house of Col. Beverley Robinson, was built at the foot of the peak in 1758. Robinson, a Tory, lost his house and estates there to confiscation in 1777. It was used as a headquarters by several American generals during the Revolution, and Benedict Arnold chose to dwell there when he took command of West Point in 1780. It was at Beverley that Arnold learned of the capture of John André and the failure of his treason, and fled thence to HMS Vulture.
  Beverley later passed into the hands of Hamilton Fish, and was destroyed by a fire in 1892. The hill was donated by the Osborn family to the Taconic State Park Commission in 1974, and now forms part of the Osborn Preserve of Hudson Highlands State Park.
caption: Col. Beverley Robinson's house, occupied by Benedict Arnold as his headquarters
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