About the shooting range
http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Society/Creedmoor.html"After a protracted search for a suitable piece of land at a reasonable price, the
NRA was able to purchase a plot owned by the Central and North Side Railroad of
Long Island. Seeing that the Association's plans were likely to stimulate rail travel,
the railroad company had agreed to sell the seventy acre plot at low cost. This
farmland had formerly been owned by the Creed family.
The gentleman credited with naming the new range was Colonel Henry SHAW, a member
of the range committee of the NRA. On arriving at Creed's Farm and observing the open,
desolate field, with coarse scanty grass and brambles he declared it a veritable moor,
Creed's Moor. Hence by a happy inspiration and coincidence "Creedmoor" became the name
of the new range. )
Much effort went in to the search for a suitable site for the new range in the vicinity
of New York to no avail. Finally the search turned to the plains of Long Island. Here the
NRA bought a 70 acre site, at one time owned by a farmer named Creed. Colonel Henry G. SHAW,
a member of the NRA range committee, is credited with coining the word "Creed-moor" having
observed the similarities of the site with the moorland of Great Britain."
