Ingram Woods: Westerleigh, Staten Island
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The Staten Island neighborhood of Westerleigh became a popular place a couple of decades after the formation of the Prohibition Party in 1869. Around the late 1880s, twenty-five acres of the current Westerleigh neighborhood became home to the National Prohibition Campground Association, also known as Prohibition Park. Prohibition Park started off as a campground with some recreational facilities for its visitors. Soon, people began to settle there instead of having to visit.
In the early twentieth century, the neighborhood of Westerleigh started to become more a residential area. As a result, the National Prohibition Campground Association started building homes and transferred some of their land to the City of New York. By the mid-1900s,…
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