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Tag: Motor Parkway Survey Atlas

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  Mar 23 2020

  Mystery Foto #12 Solved: A View Along the 10-Mile Curve in Dix Hills & the “View” Postcard Series

  To promote the restaurant/inn Petit Trianon and the Motor Parkway in 1912, Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. hired a photographer to develop the "View Along the Long Island Motor Parkway" series. These postcards were sold at Petit Trianon. My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify this postcard.

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  Mar 21 2020

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The 1910 Motor Parkway Survey Bookmap

  In 2009 I purchased 572 original Motor Parkway surveys and maps from the firm of Barrett, Bonacci and Van Weele. One of the treasures of this purchase was a 1910 "Bookmap" documenting the right-of way, the original property owners, and the corresponding survey plan #s.

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  Jun 22 2009

  Original Survey Maps of the Long Island Motor Parkway Discovered!

  Over the last 80 years, the survey firm of Barrett, Bonacci and Van Weele has acquired many Nassau and Suffolk survey firms, including several which conducted work for the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. Within their historical files were 572 survey maps of the Motor Parkway dating from 1907…