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Wiawaka is a holiday house for women. It has lake front property on Lake George, New York.It is one of the few remaining fully operational vacation/retreat centers which arose out of the women's rights movement in the early part of the twentieth century.
Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) [1] was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building.
The earliest extant building in the district is the 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story home of Henry White Belcher, owner of the Garrison and West Point Ferry Company.His home, sided in brick on the first story but shiplap above, dates to 1800 and occupied by the Belcher family until late in the 20th century.
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Bayview consisted of one large building and did not have grounds and a fenced perimeter, although an annex was later added. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and it began its life as housing for sailors before being converted in the 1970s into a jail which held a maximum of 323 women, which represented approximately half of New York State's female prison population.
The Garrison train wreck took place near Garrison on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad on October 24, 1897, killing 20 people. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] For the 1969 film Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand , Garrison was the filming location for the Yonkers scenes. [ 5 ]
The Methodist Church was organized in 1823 and a church building constructed ten years later. St. Mark's Episcopal Church was founded in 1865 by John A. Taplin and thirteen other residents of Carthage Landing, now known as Chelsea, in the Town of Wappinger. In June 1869, Horatio Potter, Bishop of New York, dedicated the new church building.
Sneden was born Mary Dobbs in Westchester County, New York, in 1709. [2] Her parents, John and Abigail Dobbs, baptized her in Tarrytown, New York. [1] Sneden grew up with two half-brothers by her father's first wife and four siblings by her mother, his second wife. [3] [4] The Dobbs Family operated a ferry across the Hudson River. Ferry ...