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Creedmoor Rifle Range

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was presented to the Amateur Rifle Club by Major Arthur Blennerhassett Leech, Captain of the visiting Irish Rifle Team and is thus the oldest trophy offered today in competitive target shooting in the United States. It was presented to the NRA in 1901 and was then annually awarded for long distance
212:, New Jersey under the auspices of the New Jersey State Rifle Association. The Creedmoor site reverted to the State of New York in 1907 and in 1912 became the Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital. Today it is the site of the 740: 1290: 207:
International competitions, organized by the NRA, were held annually at the range until 1891, after which a decline in interest and support caused them to be moved to the range at the National Guard Camp,
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In 1873, the NRA and the Creedmoor range benefitted greatly from the substantial publicity created when the Irish Rifle team, in that year the British champions having won the
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The grand international rifle-match at Creedmoor - second day shooting at a thousand yards / drawn by A.B Frost
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was presented to the NRA by the British team on the occasion of the Americans shooting at
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The range was established after the New York Legislature and the newly formed
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established a railway station nearby, with trains running from
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Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York
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appropriated $ 25,000 to purchase the Creedmoor rifle range."
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At the urging of Gen. Selden Erastus Marvin (1835–1892) (
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Long Island, New York
Coordinates
40°44′29″N 73°43′54″W / 40.74139°N 73.73167°W / 40.74139; -73.73167
Rifle range
Acreage
Long Island
Queens Village, Queens
National Rifle Association of America
Central Railroad of Long Island
Hunter's Point
34th Street
East River
Elcho Shield
Leech Cup
Wimbledon Cup
Wimbledon
Sea Girt
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
"Creedmoor Grand March". Op. 19
Brooklyn
Google Books
University of Michigan
cite book
link
OCLC
1029112286 (all editions)
"The Story of Creedmoor"
The Galaxy
Google Books

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