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The training center, c. 1950s. Edith Macy was the chair of the Girl Scout National Board of Directors from 1919 to 1925 and dreamed of a permanent Girl Scout training center. In 1925, V. Everit Macy donated land to be used as a national training school in memory of his wife, who had died on February 1 that year.
The main residence, a two-story brick building set on an English basement, replaced an earlier structure that was the home of Van Rensselaer's father, General Robert Van Rensselaer (a brother of Lt. Gov. of New York Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Catherine Van Rensselaer, who married Gen. Philip Schuyler, later a U.S. Senator).
The modernization project completed in 2014 created a new 450,000-square-foot state-of-the-art health care center; [6] and 85 new nursing home beds (increasing the total to 295) for The Residence at Gouverneur Court, a modern skilled nursing facility with rehabilitative medicine, long-term care, wound management, and hospice services. [2]
Camp Smith is a military installation of the New York Army National Guard in Cortlandt Manor, [1] in the Town of Cortlandt, [2] near Peekskill, New York, about 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City, at the northern border of Westchester County, and consists of 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2).
The Clermont State Historic Site, also known as the Clermont estate, the Clermont Manor or just Clermont, is a New York State Historic Site in southwestern Columbia County, New York, United States. It protects the former estate of the Livingston family , seven generations of whom lived on the site over more than two centuries.
The Crailo State Historic Site (also known as Fort Crailo and Yankee Doodle House) is a historic, fortified brick manor house in Rensselaer, New York which was built in 1707. The word Crailo is derived from kraaien bos (Dutch for "crow's woods") and refers to Kiliaen van Rensselaer 's estate in Huizen , Holland, which is also named "Crailo". [ 3 ]
The Wadsworth Center, originally the New York State's Antitoxin Laboratory, was established in 1901. Its mission was to standardize and manufacture antitoxin, which was for the treatment of communicable diseases such as diphtheria and anthrax. In 1914, the Antitoxin Laboratory was designated the Division of Laboratories and Research.
The property was transferred to the State in 1878, greatly expanded, and rededicated in 1879 as the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Bath. It initially housed disabled New York veterans of the American Civil War, but, as the men aged, it became largely a geriatric facility. The number of residents peaked at 2,143 in 1907. By 1928 ...