Arden is a

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around the town line of the

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towns of

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and Monroe in the "boot" of New York, United States, west of the

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. It is roughly coterminous with the 10910 ZIP Code. The area was originally known as Greenwood, and was noted for the

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belonging to Robert and Peter P. Parrott, of

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fame. The Greenwood Furnace was established in 1810; during the

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, the furnace produced the iron for the famous Parrott Gun, which was built in Cold Spring by the Parrott brothers. The Parrotts built St. John's Episcopal Church in Arden in 1863. By the 1890s, the iron industry in New York was in decline due to the discovery of surface beds of iron in

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. The hamlet takes its current name from the Arden estate built in the area by railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman in the late 19th century. It is today a

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, but not open to the public. The

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acquired the building and 540 surrounding acres from

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for $4.5 million in 2007. In 2011, the Open Space Institute sold the Arden Estate property to another nonprofit organization for $4.5 million.

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*Myles, William J., ''Harriman Trails, A Guide and History'', The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, New York, N.Y., 1999. {{Authority control Hamlets in New York (state) Hamlets in Orange County, New York Ramapos Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area

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