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Salcombe Has No Train Station, and Its Wealthiest Visitors Prefer It That Way
A sailing town on a drowned river valley in South Devon, Salcombe has long drawn well-off second-homeowners from London who value its lack of a railway as…
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Jupiter Island Is So Private It Still Doesn't Have a Public Beach Entrance
A narrow barrier island on Florida's Treasure Coast, Jupiter Island and its village of Hobe Sound have kept a low profile for generations of old-money…
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Lake Forest Has Been Chicago's Old-Money Address Since the Meatpacking Fortunes Moved North
A wooded North Shore suburb on Lake Michigan, Lake Forest became Chicago's quiet retreat for meatpacking and industrial fortunes in the late 19th century and…
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Northeast Harbor Is the Side of Mount Desert Island That Never Wanted Visitors
While Bar Harbor absorbs Mount Desert Island's cruise-ship crowds, Northeast Harbor on the same island's southern shore has spent more than a century as a…
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Watch Hill Is the Rhode Island Enclave That Never Tried to Be Newport
Watch Hill, a small village within the town of Westerly at Rhode Island's southwestern tip, has built its old-money reputation around a Gilded Age yacht club…
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Litchfield County, Connecticut Has Been New York's Quiet Country Retreat Since the Republic Was Young
Litchfield County, a stretch of rolling hills and small towns in Connecticut's northwest corner, has drawn wealthy weekenders out of New York for well over a…
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Fishers Island Belongs to New York, but You Can Only Reach It From Connecticut, and Its Old Money Likes It That Way
Fishers Island, a bridgeless summer colony in Long Island Sound reachable only by ferry from Connecticut or private plane, has quietly hosted an East Coast…
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Tuxedo Park, New York Was Built as a Gated Retreat for the Gilded Age Elite, and It Gave Formal Menswear Its Name
Tuxedo Park, a private, gated village about 65 kilometres from Manhattan founded in 1886 by tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard IV, remains one of the old-money…
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Aiken, South Carolina Has Been America's Old-Money Polo Colony Since the 1890s
Vanderbilts, Whitneys and Astors began wintering in Aiken, South Carolina in the 1890s for its sandy, mud-free polo grounds, and the town's Winter Colony…
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Woodstock, Vermont Has Been New England Old Money's Quiet Retreat Since the Gilded Age
A picture-postcard Vermont village with a working dairy farm and a conservation estate once owned by the Rockefeller family, Woodstock has drawn old New…
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Grosse Pointe Has Quietly Housed Detroit's Old Money for Over a Century
A cluster of lakefront communities just east of Detroit, Grosse Pointe became the residential address of the city's automotive dynasties in the early…
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Belgium's Old Money Has Summered at Knokke-Heist Since the Belle Époque
Knokke-Heist, the northernmost stretch of the Belgian coast, has drawn Brussels and Antwerp's wealthiest families as a discreet seaside retreat since the late…
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