Along Bethlehem’s historic waterfront, the Mohican Indians and their ancestors lived beside the Hudson River where ocean tides flowed, and the name Moh-He-Con-Nuck meant “People of the Waters That Are Never Still.” Small Mohican villages stood on the Hudson’s banks and shores. In the late 19th and early 20th century, ice was an important commodity harvested from the Hudson River and nearby ponds and streams, with huge ice houses on the riverbanks, including Tilly & Littlefield on Bear Island. Fish from the Hudson River long provided sustenance, from ancient Native Americans to Bethlehem’s early Dutch settlers to recreational fishermen today. Worthington Frothingham, a prominent Albany lawyer, lived in this area after graduating from Union College and Albany Law School; he married Harriet Shepard in 1860 and they had three children, Walter, Isadora, and Worthington. By about 1887, John Allan Terrell and Elizabeth Van Allen Terrell relaxed on the bridge at Frothingham Lake. Today the Hudson River and its adjacent lands and waters are an important recreational outlet for boating, fishing, walking, and hiking, and the river and its tributaries continue to enhance Bethlehem’s quality of life.