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List of Residents of note

Most of those listed do not actually live in the Village of Millbrook, rather they live in the Town of Washington, or in the case of James Cagney, the Town of Stanford. Also, WP:not states that wikipedia is not a list, so it should be rewritten as prose or removed.Div60 (talk) 14:12, 11 November 2009 (UTC) Millbrook is what everybody calls the entire area —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.107.217 (talk) 04:57, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also of note Millbrook and a large portion of the area around it is filled with dedicated Huntsmen. Foxhunting is the one of the oldest and most misunderstood sports. At least misunderstood by those who don't understand the true nature of dog poop. Mr. Cagney I understand even sold some land there, a little further north. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Onetinsoilder (talk • contribs) 05:54, 3 August 2010 (UTC) opps forgot to sign and date. 08/03/2010 one tinsoilderOnetinsoilder (talk) 06:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I also think it should be noted that very few of these "Notable residents" actually live in the Town of Washington (in which the Village of Millbrook lies) as year-round residents. Most of them own homes in the Township but they are not primary residencies. That may be nitpicking , however, since as with many "bedroom communities" of Manhattan, wealthy "weekenders" register to Vote in their Weekend towns and villages to avoid having to pay the NYC Income Tax. I suppose that's hard to prove with reliable sourcing, however, there may be some angry comments in the minutes of Town and/or Village Council Meetings on Record since the "weekend" residents' willingness to pay hyper-inflated prices for houses with a Millbrook Zipcode created a fair amlount of hardship for actual residents whose own property tax assments then exploded. I'll see what I can find in that area.

I lived in the Village of Millbrook as a child and most of the listed "Notable residents" bought their way in as older native residents, descdents of the "Hill-Topper Families" (founding families who became people of means in the Gilded Age) with large parcels of land began passing away in the late 70's and throughout the 1980s. This, along with relaxed zoning and the massive downsizing of IBM created a favorable land and housing market. The sudden rush of "Millbrook Chic" resulted in a large influx of monied outsiders who use their Millbrook homes as weekend residences since it lies between the last stops on both Metro North Commuter Rail Lines: The Harlem Line & The Hudson Valley Line. Most of these issues were covered in detail by the local Gannet Newspapers and even The Millbrook Roundtable, a local weekly, since these trends caused considerable hardship to longtime Village residents of retirement age who found themselves forced to sell their modest homes because the new, vastly higher, tax assements quickly outpaced their means. I realize this is IR or the POV of a former resident but I promise to work on sourcing the issue and sandboxing a section for interested editors.

The Village of Millbrook has a long and interesting history that did not begin with the brief encampment of Timothy Leary, who was never an official resident. He shouldn't even be listed as a "resident" since he was evicted as an unlawful squatter from the Hitchcock Estate. Residency has a particular meaning that does not include having been a famous troublesome houseguest of a wealthy young man with a trust Fund. I would suggest that the Leary Episode is notable enough to deserve it's own minor subsection since it involved numerous other notable locals and tremendous damage to a local historic property. I don't suggest we rehash all the details but perhaps take him off the "Residents" list and merely add a descriptive paragraph with proper Sourcing of asserted facts.

All that aside - the founding of the Township and The Village and their role in a major Schism within the Quaker Church, The Hicksite Reformation or Conflict which is only briefly mentioned in the wikipedia article Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery. I'll do my best to help give this article some depth beyond it's present list out outsiders with fame who have bought homes in the Town of Washington. It would be nice to see actual residents of the Village itself and the TOW who earned fame and recognition listed in a "Natives" section.LiPollis (talk) 15:41, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]