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Walter (left), Otway (right), and Ursula Burns play in a fountain on Inwood Hill overlooking the Hudson River on the grounds of Ursulian Terrace, the family home. (Photo courtesy: Peter Landry)

Paranormal Inwood: The Strange Case of Walter Francis Burns

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Inwood Featured in 1968 Documentary: “Goodbye to Glocamorra”

Beekeeper Mike Fesslian in Inwood Hill Park, 1932, photo by Percy Loomis Sperr

The Beekeeper of Inwood Hill

Ulysses Grant family in 1870. Jesse Root Grant wearing white coat in center.

The General’s Son: A Scandal on Inwood Hill

1917 map by Reginald Bolton with location of slave cemetery marked. (Source: American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

Inwood’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

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A Buried City: The Blizzard of 1888

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Turn-of-the-century-postcard

Happy 150th Birthday "Inwood"

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Hurst home on Park Terrace East in Inwood.

Inwood’s Hurst House: Then and Now

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Robert Veitch postcard.

The Veitch Collection: Inwood Photographs Rediscovered

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The Story of Mount Washington: AKA Inwood Hill

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Happy Halloween

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House of Mercy, Inwood Hill, 1932. (Designed by Henry Martyn Congdon)

Asylums on Inwood Hill

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Film Studio on Dyckman Street, 1909

From Dyckman Street to Treasure Island

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Texas Jim Baker Inwood Serial Killer

Inwood Serial Killer: "Texas Jim" Baker

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Joan Cuneo Circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society.

The Fort George Hill Climb

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