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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. 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 ...

4. List of mountains of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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   Sugarloaf Mountain (Dutchess County, New York) Sugarloaf Hill (Putnam County, New York) Tom Jones Mountain. West Mountain. Joppenbergh Mountain. Marlboro Mountains.

5. Glen Tonche - Wikipedia

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   Glen Tonche. Glen Tonche is an estate atop Mount Tonche, in Ulster County, near Shokan, New York. The estate's house was built in 1928 as the summer family compound of American businessman Raymond Pitcairn, whose family founded PPG Industries. Since 1999 the property has been the location of Allaire Studios, a recording facility.

6. Santanoni Preserve - Wikipedia

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   Santanoni Preserve was established by Robert C. Pruyn (1847–1934), a prominent Albany banker and businessman. Acquiring about 12,900 acres (52.2 km 2) in the Town of Newcomb, just south of the Adirondack High Peaks, Pruyn employed the distinguished architect Robert H. Robertson (1849–1914) to design a summer residential complex.

7. Eagle Nest camp - Wikipedia

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   Eagle Nest is an Adirondack Great Camp built in 1938 for Kathrine and Walter Hochschild on the north shore of Eagle Lake, New York History [ edit ] The extensive grounds, surrounding both Eagle Lake and Utowana Lake , belonged to adventure writer Ned Buntline in 1867 and a 2000-acre parcel owned by William West Durant in 1888, [2] before being ...