Miscellaneous local history materials, 1891-1988.

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Miscellaneous local history materials, 1891-1988.

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Pamphlets, reports, typescript articles, and other printed items concerning the local history of Tuxedo Park and neighboring areas in Orange and Rockland Counties including newsletters of the Tuxedo Park League of Women Voters, 1978-1988, and of the Laurel Ridge-Clinton Woods Residents Association of Tuxedo, Inc., 1975-1987; typescript report on labor, housing, education, business, and government in Rockland County, 1978; typescript history by Edward Franklin Pierson on "The Ramapo Pass including the Village of Ramapo Works," written in 1915 and edited by H. Pierson Mapes, 1955; dissertation on Bruce Price, architect who designed many of the homes in Tuxedo Park, 1971; 1926 yearbook from Tuxedo Park with a map; yearbooks of the Tuxedo Club, 1896-1953; Colton's booklet road maps for Ulster County and Rockland/Orange County, 1891; copies of the survey forms from an historic building survey of Tuxedo Park, 1977-1978; and pamphlets on local history subjects such as Claudius Smith, Medical Society of Orange County, life in Wallkill, N.Y., Orange County settlements, Civil War iron industry, reminiscences of Samuel W. Eager, lawyer and judge, Sterling Forest, and the Delaware and Hudson Canal.

ca. 4 linear ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Tuxedo Park Library (Tuxedo Park, N.Y.)

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Collecting area: History of the Town of Tuxedo and Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and neighboring area. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155527166 ...

Tuxedo Park League of Women Voters (Tuxedo Park, N.Y.)

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Price, Bruce, 1845-1903

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Bruce Price was born Dec. 12, 1845 in Cumberland, MD . He studied at Princeton University and did an internship with Baltimore architects Niernsee & Neilson from 1864–68. Afterwords, he began his professional work in Baltimore with Ephraim Francis Baldwin and then opened an office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where he practiced from 1873-1876. In 1877 he settled in New York City. Prince is well known for the design and layout of the exclusive 7,000-acre planned community of Tuxedo Park, New Yo...

Eager, Samuel W. (Samuel Watkins), 1789-1860

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Medical Society of Orange County (N.Y.)

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Tuxedo Club (Tuxedo Park, N.Y.)

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Smith, Claudius F. (Claudius Ferdinand), 1860-

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Pierson, Edward Franklin.

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Laurel Ridge-Clinton Woods Residents' Association of Tuxedo (Tuxedo Park, N.Y.)

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