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County: Greene

Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge

(1831-1905) Writer, novelist. Mary Mapes Dodge was born in New York City. She was editor of St. Nicholas Magazine, a magazine for children. She lived in Onteora Park, New York, in Yarrow Cottage, which she purchased in 1888; she died in Tannersville, New York, and the children of the community processed at her funereal.

Hamlin Garland

(1860-1940) Writer, poet. Hamlin Garland spent his summers in Onteora Park from 1917 to the 1930s. He was born near West Salem, Wisconsin; lived in Manhattan. He grew up in the middle western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography. His tales, collected as “Main-travelled Roads” (1891), “Prairie Folks” (1893), … Continued