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Far Hills, New Jersey, Turned a Farmers' Thank-You Race Into America's Biggest Day of Steeplechase Society

An hour from Manhattan, Far Hills anchors New Jersey's old hunt country, where the Essex Fox Hounds and a steeplechase meeting founded in 1913 to thank local farmers still draw the East Coast's horse set every October.

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Harbor Springs Is the Midwest's Quietest Old-Money Summer Colony, and It's Kept It That Way for 150 Years

On Michigan's Little Traverse Bay, the private summer colonies of Wequetonsing and Harbor Point have kept a handful of Midwestern families returning to the same cottages since the 1870s and 1880s, largely away from public notice.

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Badminton Has Been the Duke of Beaufort's Estate for Over 300 Years, and Royalty Still Rides There

A 52,000-acre Gloucestershire estate that has belonged to the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century gave the sport of badminton its name and still hosts one of equestrian sport's grandest annual fixtures, drawing the British royal family among its regulars.

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Villars-sur-Ollon Has Been Quietly Educating Europe's Old Money for Over a Century

Less famous than Gstaad or Verbier, this Swiss Alpine resort in the canton of Vaud has built its reputation on two elite boarding schools rather than nightlife, drawing generations of well-off families to settle in for a term rather than a weekend.

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Telluride Turned a Dying Silver Town Into One of America's Most Private Ski Retreats

A box canyon so enclosed it only has one road in has kept Telluride, Colorado's former silver-mining town, one of American skiing's quietest and most expensive retreats.

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Camden, Maine, Has Been East Coast Old Money's Summer Harbour Since the 1880s

Wealthy families from Philadelphia, Boston and New York began building shingle-style summer cottages above Camden's harbour in the 1880s, and the same fleet of restored windjammer schooners that once carried Maine's cargo now carries their descendants' guests along the same coastline.

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Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Has Been Chicago's Old-Money Summer Retreat Since the Gilded Age

Long before Aspen or Michigan's lake towns entered the picture, Chicago's wealthiest families were building summer mansions on the shores of Geneva Lake, and a public footpath cut along their shoreline still lets anyone walk past all of them.

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Cap d'Antibes Has Been the French Riviera's Quiet Old-Money Corner Since the Jazz Age

Long before Saint-Tropez existed as a celebrity byword, Gerald and Sara Murphy were hosting Hemingway, Picasso and the Fitzgeralds on Cap d'Antibes, and the wooded peninsula's hedged villas have kept a lower profile than the Riviera resort towns around it ever since.

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Martha's Vineyard Has Been America's Quietest Old-Money Address for a Century

From decades of Kennedy family compounds to the Obamas' Edgartown-area estate, Martha's Vineyard has built its old-money reputation on low profiles and hard-to-reach shores rather than visible grandeur.

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St Moritz Has Been Alpine Old Money's Winter Address Since the 1860s

The Swiss resort that popularised winter tourism in the nineteenth century has kept its Cresta Run toboggan club, its grand belle-époque hotels and its old European aristocracy well into the present day.

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The Peak Has Been Hong Kong's Address of Choice Since the Colonial Era

Long the most sought-after residential ground in Hong Kong, the hillside neighbourhood known simply as The Peak has kept its cooler air, its harbour views and its status among the city's wealthiest households for well over a century.

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Deià Has Drawn Writers and Film Stars to Mallorca's Tramuntana Coast Since Robert Graves Settled There in 1929

A terraced stone village on Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana coast, Deià built its reputation as a writers' retreat around Robert Graves and has since drawn film-star residents and one of Richard Branson's former hotels.