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briar + cliff (ancestral home of early settler)

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Briarcliff Manor

  1. A village in Westchester County, New York, on the Hudson River.
    • 1921, Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York:
      Plans were approved on February 21, 1920, for proposed extensions io the temporary sewage disposal plant serving the village of Briarcliff Manor.

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