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http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/New%20York%20NY%20World/New%20York%20NY%20World%201896%20c/New%20York%20NY%20World%201896%20c%20-%206457.pdf Society Weddings in the Country, page 30, October 18, 1896, The World

To-morrow night at Woodlea a family bridal dinner will be given the eve of the wedding of Miss Shepard and Ernesto G. Fabbri. "As Mrs. Shepard's period of mourning has been somewhat protracted only 300 guests will attend the wedding."

on the road which, under different names, leads from Battery Park in New York city all the way to Albany p60

Bedrock
The bedrock underlying parts of Dutchess County is a dolomite known as Briarcliff Dolomite. It is a strong, competent metamorphic rock created when Pangaea formed. It is well suited for the foundations of tall buildings. In Central Park, outcrops of Manhattan Schist occur and Rat Rock is one rather large example.

Geologically, a predominant feature of the substrata of Manhattan is that the underlying bedrock base of the island rises considerably closer to the surface near Midtown Manhattan, dips down lower between 29th Street and Canal Street, then rises toward the surface again in Lower Manhattan. It has been widely believed that the depth to bedrock was the primary underlying reason for the clustering of skyscrapers in the Midtown and Financial District areas, and their absence over the intervening territory between these two areas, as skyscrapers must have their foundations sunk into solid bedrock. However, new research has shown that economic factors played a bigger part in the locations of these skyscrapers.

Wappinger Group - Upper Cambrian
Medium-dark- to light-gray, fine-grained, massive to poorly layered, generally fissile, mottled dolostone lacking phyllitic or quartzose layers. Outcrops are commonly highly jointed and poorly layered except for indistinct laminations consisting of light- and dark-gray dolostone. Beds or nodules of punky, silceous dolomite and dark-gray to black chert common near top and locally form fairly continuous beds.

The Wappinger Group underlies most of --- and consists of limestone and dark-gray to gray-black dolomite units. One of the formations in the group is Briarcliff Dolostone, a dolomite.