In September 1908 Marion Guerney, a recent convert to Catholicism, and four other women - Amelia Merceret, Margaret Coleman, Julia Foley, and Elizabeth Lemmers - began to work among the immigrant poor in the settlement houses in New York City....
Marydell campers sing around a campfire. The old farmhouse is on the slope above them. The Marydell children's camp closed in 1988 when the Sisters of Christian Doctrine refocused their ministry. In 1990 they reopened as the Marydell Faith and Life...
The mother house of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine was on the east side of Broadway from 1924 to 1960. The property was called Mary- to honor the Virgin Mary and -dell, a small vale. The house was surrounded by trees and had a small greenhouse...
Marydell Camp was first known as "Save a Life Farm." For the girls who attended the camp, it provided a respite from the squalor of their surroundings in lower New York City. The fresh air and bucolic setting along the Hudson River, in the shadow...
Larch trees once lined the road at the north end of Broadway, where the state park entrance is today. The area was called Larchdale. The lane that led uphill to the west in now called Larchdale Avenue. This is the property purchased by the Sisters...
