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New Rochelle (rōshĕl`), city (1990 pop. 67,625), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on Long Island Sound; settled by Huguenots 1688, inc. as a village 1858, as a city 1899. Although mainly a residential suburb of New York City, it has some light industry. The house where Thomas Paine Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer, b. Thetford, Norfolk, England. The son of a working-class Quaker, he became an excise officer and was dismissed from the service after leading (1772) agitation for higher salaries. ..... Click the link for more information. lived has been preserved. Iona College and the College of New Rochelle are in the city. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Susan Doban Architect, PC, has taken a former auto repair shop in New Rochelle, New York, and transformed it into a sleek, state-of-the-art culinary arts facility for Monroe College. Cavadini's "Ignorant Catholics" (April 9): Last fall I taught a course titled "Contemporary Peacemakers" at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. Some of the tournament's past sites include the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough, New York, and the Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle, New York. |
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