Westerleigh - The Town That Temperance Built

Take one of two tours of Westerleigh, Staten Island, former National Prohibition Park.  Learn of the temperance movement and how it affected this planned community that was created in 1887. Learn of the role women played in the town's development, including, Francis WIllard, Ella Boole and Amy Vanderbilt.   Mary Lathrap , William and Catherine Booth, Robert Peary, Neal Dow, and others who spoke in the 5,000 seat auditorium.   Notable literary giants lived here, like IK Funk of Funk and Wagnalls, poet Edwin Markham and Fiction writer Florence Kingsley

Tour A - This 2 hour tour focusses on the Temperance origins of Westerleigh, the earliest Victorian homes streets names for women and nominees for president of the United States on the Prohibition ticket.

Tour B - This 2 hour tour focusses on upper Westerleigh, where streets are named for states that were dry in the 1800's, and focusses on homes designed by local architect, James Whitford II.

Mark is a fourth generation resident, the civic group president of the Westerleigh Improvement Society and has been leading tours of Westerleigh for two decades.