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  2. Camp Topridge - Wikipedia

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    Camp Topridge is an Adirondack Park Great Camp bought in 1920 and substantially expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, former owner of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post. The "camp", near Keese Mill, in the U.S. state of New York, was considered by Post to be a "rustic retreat"; it consisted of 68 buildings ...

  3. Ausable Club - Wikipedia

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    Ausable Club. The Ausable Club, in St. Huberts, New York, is the name of a club and the clubhouse of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve (AMR), which upon the initiative of William George Neilson, formed in 1887 to save the lands around Beede's Hotel from the lumber industry. The Reserve once owned most of the Adirondack High Peaks.

  4. Forest Preserve (New York) - Wikipedia

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    Sign at bounds of New York State Forest Preserve land. New York 's Forest Preserve, comprises almost all the lands owned by the state of New York within the Adirondack and Catskill parks. It is managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). As of 2022, the Forest Preserve covers nearly 3 million acres (12,000 km 2), about ...

  5. Great Sacandaga Lake - Wikipedia

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    The Great Sacandaga Lake (formerly the Sacandaga Reservoir) is a large lake situated in the Adirondack Park in northern New York in the United States. The lake has a surface area of about 41.7 square miles (108 km 2) at capacity, and the length is about 29 miles (47 km). The word Sacandaga means "Land of the Waving Grass" in the native Mohawk ...

  6. Macomb's Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Macomb, William Constable, and Daniel McCormick agreed to purchase nearly 4,000,000 acres (1,600,000 ha) from the state at the extremely low price of 8 pence (New York state money) per acre. [1][2] This was an enormous amount of land, about one-eighth of the entire state of New York. Convinced something illegal must have occurred, the ...

  7. Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia

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    Townhouse (1896) at 12 East 77th Street in Manhattan, New York. Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873–1942) Townhouse (1882) [7] part of the Triple Palace at 640 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York. The house was completely renovated in 1914 by Grace Vanderbilt at a cost of $500,000. Demolished c. 1945.

  8. High Peaks Wilderness Area - Wikipedia

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    The area contains 42 of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, including the tallest, Mount Marcy. The topography ranges from small areas of low-lying swampland (e.g., along the Raquette and Saranac Rivers) to the highest point in New York State at the top of Mount Marcy. Although there is a considerable variety of topography, it is predominantly high ...

  9. William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - Wikipedia

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    The William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County.It is bounded on the east by Hamilton County Route 10, on the south by lands of Whitney Industries, on the west by private lands owned by The Nature Conservancy and the Brandreth Park Association, on the northwest by the Remsen to Lake Placid ...

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