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Fox Meadows History and the Butler Legacy in Scarsdale
The article recounts Fox Meadows during the Revolutionary era with Varian and Tompkins families and later the Butler family transforming the estate. It covers the Varian tavern era, Tompkins county roles, the Butler purchase, lavish country life, hospitality, Sunday School gatherings, and public-spirited donations that saved much of the woodland and helped create Butler Park and parkway lands.
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Fox Meadows
James Varian
New York City
Haddon
Scarsdale
Wayside Cottage
White Plains Post Road
Jonathan Tompkins
Varians
Tompkinses
Westchester County
Tompkins
Jonathan Griffin
Jonathan G. Tompkins
John Berker
John Cornell
Caleb
Fox Meadow School House
Tompkins Road
Post Road
Caleb Tompkins
Enoch
County Court of Common Pleas
University of the State of New York
Jonathan
Ohio
New York
Griffin-Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins
Bronx
Charles Butler
Travis
Varian
Hemlock Woods
Yonkers
Mr. Butler
Fox Meadows Chapel
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin
Opera House
Butler Park
Parkway
Parkway Commission
Hermann W. Mer