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www.thejournalnews.com Rockland The Journal News Sunday, November 3, 2002 7B ROCKLAND HISTORY Boy Scout founder's estate becomes Brooklands Park 'JDHUB'll'l r- A i 1 4,1 i 4. ting in a butterfly garden." Other projects will include moving Beard's monument from the ball field to the park, restoring the gate to the estate and establishing a tree farm on part of the park site. "Well be seeking additional grant money for plantings," Glinsky said. "I'd like to see a botanical garden there. And we're working with the Boy Scouts to create pavilions and other Eagle Scout projects." Ramapo Town Historian Craig Long said the property that became Brooklands was once apple orchards owned by the Wana-maker family.

Several owners occupied a more modest home there until New York City sugar merchant Frederick Howell transformed the late 19th-century colonial into a grand estate, with walnut paneling, servants quarters, a greenhouse and a garage with a turntable. Village Historian Gardner Watts remembered that when he was 14 he met Beard after the Boy Scouts' founder moved to Suffern from Queens in 1928. "My father was the minister of the Suffern Presbyterian Church and founder of Boy Scout Troop One, and invited Dan to be the speaker at a father and son supper," Watts said. "It was very thrilling to have him speak to me. I remember he put his arm around me and said, 'Once a Scout, always a Scout'" Watts also recalled a Boy Scout parade to Brooklands.

"Dan was there at his house, and he came out in his buckskin Suffern site intended to honor the spirit of Daniel Carter Beard Nancy Cacioppo The Journal News SUFFERN Daniel Carter Beard, a founder and first commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, was often described as "a man of the woods and the fields." In a secluded valley below the Ramapo Mountains, just yards from the New York State Thruway, part of Beard's former estate is being transformed into an 8.8-acre sylvan oasis known as Brooklands Park. Several features will preserve the naturalist's woodland legacy for visitors. A recently completed footbridge over the Mahwah River, paid for with a $25,000 matching state grant, now allows pedestrians a clear walking path from the Knolls of Ramapo on Montebello Road to the Suffern municipal pool and Little League ball field on Memorial Drive, village officials said. The grant also paid for benches, picnic tables and a parking area. "Cooperative Extension walked the site and will identify tree species and wildlife, so visitors will know what's there," said Suffern Mayor Howard Glinsky.

"We're keeping the park as natural as possible. And we're talking about put R1 M- life Historical photo of Brooklands in Suffern, the former estate of Daniel Carter Beard, a founder and first commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. An 8.8-acre parcel of the original estate will become Brooklands Park, preserving the naturalist's legacy for visitors. Boy Scout hat he wore. Other items, including furniture from Beard's study at Brooklands, are part of an exhibit in the history museum at Bear Mountain's Trailside Museums and Wildlife Center.

Reach Nancy Cacioppo at ncacioppthejournalnews.com or 845-578-2439. costume and gave an ax-throwing demonstration," Watts said. "Pathe newsreels took pictures of him that day he was 78." Beard lived at the 13-acre Brooklands estate until his death in 1941, just 10 days short of his 91st birthday. He is buried at Brick Church Cemetery in New Hempstead. Brooklands was eventually di vided into apartments.

Tom Mc-Taggart of Sloatsburg, a history teacher at Suffern High School, remembers living there as a child with his family from 1954 to 1956. "Our apartment was on the third floor, where the servants had once lived," McTaggart said. "I remember the lush lawns and the apple orchards. It was paradise for a child. What was great was to pick the apples there." Long said Brooklands eventually fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1978.

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