Map Showing Bridle Paths Maintained By The Country Lanes Commitee

Publication date: 1915

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Map Sz: 22 3/4"H x 22 3/4"W Frame Sz: 29"H x 29"W Publisher: The Country Lanes Committee Map Showing Approximate Location & General Direction of Bridle Paths Maintained by the Country Lanes Committee in District Bounded by Glen Cove, Oyster Bay, Cold Spring, Woodbury, Jericho & East Williston Including Locust Valley, East Norwich, Roslyn, Brookville, Wheatley, Old Westbury, Westbury and Syosset: June 1924. The Country Lanes Committee that produced this map formed around a core of equestrian hunt enthusiasts from Piping Rock Club, annoyed by the automobile’s increasing encroachment on open fields. But even worse than the automobile was the real estate boom in the years before the First World War, as agriculture made way for “estates”—garish, private and hostile to horseback riding. Beginning with a two-square-mile tract of property under the ownership of several Piping Rock members, the Committee developed a network of paths over two hundred miles long through a district nearly ten miles square, avoiding wherever possible the motorized traffic of macadam roads. Trails were marked with green enamel signs bearing the initials “P.R.C.” – originally standing for “Piping Rock Club” but easily broadened to mean “Private Road Committee.” Still, to ensure that newcomers to the trails didn’t get hopelessly lost, the Committee printed maps of the district, as evidenced by the Society’s 1924 edition.…

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Map Showing Bridle Paths Maintained By The Country Lanes Commitee
Publication year
1915
Condition
Very good
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Maps & Charts, Piping Rock Club

The Cary Collection

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