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From: "RMH" <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] Dominican nuns/Sparkill, NY
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:35:17 -0500
References: <20020309.190456.-540011.3.twigs3@juno.com>


Oh, wow, McCreery's! I remember liking the store - wasn't it on 5th Ave not
far from 34th? We used to walk up 5th, stopping at McCreery's, Arnold
Constable's, Altman's, Lord & Taylor's, and ending at Best's, shopping for
school clothes - having taken the West Shore railroad to Weehawken from
Rockland County, and then a ferry across the Hudson. Long time ago! So
interesting to me to learn that one of the founders of McCreery's was a
'local' person.

Land records are kept at the county clerk's office, and things have just
changed in Rockland. There is a new office, but they only have the more
recent Grantor/Grantee books there, from 1930-1980. I presume the older
books have been moved to the archives, and as soon as I can I will check
there to see if I can find a sale of property by the Lakes.

Regina Haring
Nanuet, NY
http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Wood" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: [NY IRISH] Dominican nuns


> First of all, thank you to all who have responded. Much appreciated!
>
> James Steers Lake and wife, Jennie Woods, owned what the family referred
> to as Sparkhill.
> Jennie was my g'father's sister.
>
> The photo that I have must have been taken ca 1903-06. Jim, Jennie, my
> g'parents, and young uncle are sitting on the lawn with the house in the
> background. My dad and his much older brothers summered at the Lakes.
> We have a collection of the boys playing in the fields there.
>
> Jim Lake was one of the founders of Lake and McCreery's dept. store,
> which later became McCreery's.
>
> Would like to reconstruct some of the stories surrounding Dad's boyhood
> memories. Learning more about this estate would be quite helpful.
>
> Again, thanks very much!
> Pat Wood
> Fircrest, WA
>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:07:31 -0500 "RMH" <>
> writes:
> > Greetings from Rockland County, NY!
> >
> > Yes, Sparkill is still here - south of Piermont, but not on the
> > Hudson
> > River, on the west side of the high palisades, and yes, south of the
> > Tappan
> > Zee Bridge. Tappan is the next town to the west. Incidentally
> > it's
> > "Sparkill" not Sparkhill, "kill" being the Dutch word for stream or
> > creek.
> >
> > The phone book says Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, Route 340,
> > Sparkill,
> > 845-359-6400. Now there is senior housing on what I believe is
> > their
> > property as well, Thorpe Senior Housing. The area is level and I
> > would
> > think it would have been desirable for farming - it's quite lovely
> > the way
> > it's been developed. St. Thomas Aquinas College is nearby as well.
> >
> > What were the names of the grandparents who lived there, and did
> > they own a
> > lot of property? Today what the Dominicans have covers some acres.
> >
> > Regina Haring
> > Nanuet, NY
> > http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com
> >


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