Word: ramapo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, titled 55 Minutes from Broadway, was an account of the life and death of Gilbert Pitt, recluse, who had lived for 81 years in a dirt-floored shack in the Ramapo Mountains of New York, 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. Together with his housekeeper, Maggie Gannon, he had passed much of his time avoiding the so-called conveniences of modern society. Last spring, suffering from a heart attack, he waited for the dogwood to bloom; then he died...
Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...
...Most ingenious solution was in Sloatsburg, N.Y., where little Ramapo Piece Dye Works rented an old Erie locomotive, rolled it on to a siding, piped it to the plant, hired a fireman to keep the engine at full steam...
...created the rocky crags, the woods, the Ramapo mountain wilderness, the lake which the Indians had named Ptuck-sepo, 40-odd miles northwest of blatant, roistering Manhattan. But it was Pierre Lorillard (snuff & tobacco) who foreclosed a mortgage in 1814 and began to make this wilderness into a 600,000-acre property for the Lorillards. The memory of Pierre "will be preserved in the annals of New York. ... He led people by the nose for the best part of a century and made his enormous fortune by giving them that to chew which they could not swallow...
...rainy day in September, 71 years later, Pierre Lorillard III got off a train and looked over his land. It was all his, by virtue of inheritance, purchase, and out-guessing his relatives at poker. Seven months from that fall day, he had built in the Ramapo hills 30 miles of roads, a sewage and water system, a park gatehouse "like a frontispiece to an English novel," 22 cottages, two blocks of stores, stables, a dam, an icehouse, clubhouse, swimming pool...