Ok, since Patrick seems to be hiding the evidence...
By popular demand, here's his supposed "Smoking Gun" that "demolishes" Tillinghast's contemporaneous account of his close friend's George Crump's story on how he found the land.
Remember that Shelly, 1) Never met Crump, 2) Apparently never spoke to Tillinghast, 3) Wasn't a member until 10 years after Crump's death, 3) Wrote his book in 1982, a full 64 years after Crump's death.
And here's what he said, directly from the book in question. You'll recognize the first part of the paragraph.
Patrick chose to hide the last two sentences because he didn't want everyone here to know that his supposed moking gun was a water pistol, which even Shelly conceded was only a theory on his part;
And...here's the proof that Crump found the property hunting in the woods. There is no text that explains anything about the photo than what is offered;
And, here's the pre-construction photos that Patrick originally told us included 40-70 foot tall trees, impenetrable underbrush making the property invisible from the elevated train rails.
Here's one of the clearing of the third hole...as you can see in the second photo after the hole was built, no trees were touched in the area behind the green, so in the winter one can clearly see from ground level all of the sandy undulations beyond through the mostly deciduous trees.