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Letchworth Park pamphlets

Collection — manuscript box: 30 - folder 1

Identifier: 1021m

Scope and content

Three pamphlets published by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. One of them is titled "Letchworth Park in Danger," 1907; and the other two pamphlets consist of minutes of the Society's Letchworth Park Committee from May and November, 1912.

Dates

1907-1912.

Creator

American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The land for Letchworth Park was given to the State of New York by William Pryor Letchworth at the end of 1906. In January 1907, a bill was introduced in the New York state legislature to amend the charter of the Genesee River Company in a way that would have allowed the company to build a dam robbing the park of its waterfalls.