🏘️ Croton Local History

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"Something New!" proclaimed this ad from the May 30, 1908 issue of the Peekskill Highland Democrat . "Right on the Beautiful Croton River, where Cool Breezes blow even on the warmest days." This ad must have been the beginning of a publicity

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campaign, because about a month later the New York Times 1 published a short article about the Nikko Tea House. "One of the novel features of the big development at Harmon, Westchester County," wrote the Times , “is the Nikko Tea House perched on the

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precipitous bank of the Croton River . . . The tea house is of rustic construction, and is surrounded by a dense grove of pines and cedars, in which are many picturesque summer houses. . . ." June 21, 1908 ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window)

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An advertisement from the 1865 Brooklyn Directory. "Among all the rich and luscious terrestrial fruits which gladden the heart of man and delight his taste and renovate his health," wrote the Eclectic Magazine in April, 1864, "none surpass in variety

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and value the fruit of the vine. . . . In all ages and in all countries, where the soil and climate admit, the grape . . . has been the favorite fruit, and often the food and drink of man. Among grape growers and vine dressers, Dr. Underhill has

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become a patriarch and a man of renown. The grapes of Croton Point have long ago become celebrated for their richness and lusciousness, as many tongues can testify which have tasted their sweetness. Dr. Underhill is a benefactor of his age and race,

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for he puts more pleasant fruits and wine also into the lips of his fellow men than any man we know of. His Croton Point vineyards will be a lasting monument to his fame so long as his grapes grow and flourish. Think of fifty acres of the choicest

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grapes and of floods of wine made from the juice thereof. Thousands of baskets of rich grapes find their way into the mansions of our citizens and into their mouths also every year, followed, when the grape season is over, by thousands of casks of

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wine, which in all its varieties and pureness is for sale and can be had at No. 7 Clinton Hall, Astor Place, New-York. For all medicinal purposes and communion occasions, as well as to renovate impaired health, Dr. Underhill's varieties of wine is

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unsurpassed. All this and more also is due to his enterprise and skill in planting and cultivating vineyards so extensive." Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in

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Published April 28, 2013 April 28, 2013

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These beautiful glass lantern slides show the gardens of Van Cortlandt Manor in 1930, when the property was still owned by Van Cortlandt descendents. 1 The photographs are from the Garden Club of America collection in the Archives of American Gardens

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at the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian's website states that "the Garden Club of America was established in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . . . Its purpose is to foster the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore and protect the

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quality of the environment through educational programs and gardening and conservation efforts. . . . The GCA's glass lantern slides were used by the GCA for presentations and lectures about notable gardens throughout the United States dating back to

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colonial times." The manor passed from the Van Cortlandt family in 1945. In 1953, John D. Rockefeller purchased it and began a restoration. The restored manor house was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1961. ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in

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New York Evening World, June 25, 1907 Another example of the innovative advertising Clifford B. Harmon used to sell land in Harmon, “the highest, healthiest, most beautiful, most accessible and most aristocratic part of Westchester County. . . .

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where the New York Central's million dollar electric terminal is located.” “Don't wait! HARMON is your golden opportunity. . . . $10 secures a beautiful villa site. . . . Every lot a river view.” See this post for more ads for the “Quickest and Most

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Successful Real Estate Development in the History of New York.” For all Harmon-related posts click here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

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As we noted in a previous post , the poet and social activist Lydia Maria Child recorded the unbridled joy New Yorkers felt when the Croton Aqueduct opened in 1842. The arrival of the “clean, sweet, abundant water” also inspired her to write a poem,

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“The New-York Boy’s Song,” which was published in 1854 in her book, Flowers for Children . Child was "renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society." 1 In this poem she

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celebrates the ways the "blessed" Croton—which "flows for man and beast, and gives its wealth out freely, to the greatest and the least,"—could cure several social ills plaguing New York City in the mid-1800s. The New-York Boy’s Song To Croton Water

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