Research

Scope and Content Note

One loose-leaf binder contains an original copy of the first meeting's minutes, March 10, 1919, and copies of typed transcripts extending from March 3, 1919 - December 6, 1920.

The Board of Commissioners of the Mohansic Lake Reservation was created by a law of 1918 as part of the New York State Legislative Investigating Committee (Strong Committee) and was empowered to investigate all "records, plans and documents of the Mohansic Lake Hospital and Training School pertaining to its building contracts, operation and appropriations."