🏘️ Croton Local History
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and early 20th centuries this was the site of a brickyard, so the pond shown here is most likely water filling in the excavation area. C. Ed Rondthaler's beloved "Picture Tunnel" under the railroad tracks. D. These railroad side-tracks across from
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the Duck Pond were removed to make way for Route 9, but what's even more interesting is that the area where the tracks were located was filled in. The curve of Riverside Avenue at this point most likely follows the original bank of the Hudson River.
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E. This curved bridge, which allowed some north-bound trains to loop back around, is still with us today. It's the bridge you drive across to go to Half Moon Bay, Senasqua Park, the Croton Yacht Club and Croton Landing. F. A round-house for trains,
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when Croton was an even bigger railroad facility than it is today. G. The bungalow colony that existed on Croton Point, shown in exquisite detail. If you're interested in learning more about the colony check out the new Facebook page, Croton Point
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Bungalows . If you’re interested in what existed in the same place hundreds of years earlier —the Lenape fort and cemetery, the Haunted Hollow, and Money Hill—where Capt. Kidd was said to have buried his treasure—stay tuned. From the USGS Historical
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File, Topographic Division ↩ 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) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new
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window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged bungalow colony Duck Pond Ed Rondthaler Picture Tunnel Route 9 Published June 13, 2013 June 13, 2013
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These aerial and ground photographs were taken by Jack Boucher in 1978 and are now part of the Historic American Engineering Record collection of the Library of Congress. The collection includes a large number of photographs and plans documenting the
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original Croton Dam, the New Croton Dam and the entire aqueduct system. 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) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new
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This post card, postmarked June 11, 1907, was published by William Terhune, Ossining on Hudson. The promenade across Ossining’s famous double arches is being rebuilt and is scheduled to be reopened in September, 2013. Above is a post card showing the
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location circa 1907 and below is a photo of the site under construction today. 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) Facebook Share on X (Opens in
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new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Post card William Terhune Published June 22, 2013
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Click the map to enlarge it. See the key to points of historic interest, below. This fascinating map of "Teller's Point or Croton Point" was drawn by Edward Hagaman Hall for an article published in the March, 1898 issue of the magazine The Spirit of
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'76 . In addition to recording the roads and buildings, Hall provided a numbered key (see below) to points of historic interest. Edward Hagaman Hall was a journalist who became involved in a variety of preservation organizations at the turn of the
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century. According to the New York Preservation Archive Project , Hall's "efforts in preservation can be attributed in large part to the City Beautiful movement in the early 1900s. . . . Hall was pivotal in the nascent efforts to pass legislation
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monitoring the aesthetic fabric in New York City." He was also an officer of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. The ASHPS was instrumental in advocating the preservation of
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Croton Point. The group held an option to purchase the land in 1917 and published an article in the first issue of their bulletin, likely written by Hall, that detailed the historic importance of the Point. "The Trustees of the American Scenic and
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Historic Preservation Society hope that the project for a public park on Croton Point . . . will receive the public support which it deserves." 1 Explanation of Map Place whence Peterson and Sherwood fired on the boat . . . the Vulture , September
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20th, 1780. Descendants of Peterson have the musket. Linden Cottage. Cannon ball found by Eugene Anderson, who now has it. It weighs five pounds. Old musket ram-rod found in clay. In possession of H. G Morehouse. Underhill Homestead. Old oak tree, a
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landmark. No one knows how old. Vine Cottage. Fish house. Cannon ball weighing nearly six pounds, plowed up in meadow. Squaw Point. Directly opposite, on the western bank, André landed from the Vulture and first met Arnold. Picnic Point, where Enoch
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Crosby, Cooper's Spy , once enticed ashore and helped capture a boat-load of British soldiers. Farm house 135 years old. Italian villa built by Dr. Robert T. Underhill, deceased. Cannon ball found lodged in a tree about eighty years ago, by Dr.
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Underhill. The ball is now in possession of S. W. Underhill and weighs about six pounds. The tree is not now standing, and the oldest inhabitant does not remember in which side of the tree the ball lodged. Place where earthworks were thrown up by
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Americans 2 when they brought the cannon down to the point. Vouched for by S. W. Underhill, who lived there for sixty years. Dotted shore is low and sandy. Where the shore has declivity marks it is high and rocky. Scenic and Historic America , volume
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1, issue 1, January 15, 1917. ↩ Hall added a footnote, "Livingston's cannon may have been shifted from one place to another, as the Vulture got under way." ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)
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Related Published June 25, 2013 June 25, 2013
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Two hundred and thirty seven years ago today, on July 2, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post published momentous news. The July 2, 1776 issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post contains the earliest known printed notice that independence had been
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declared. Four days later, it became the first newspaper to print the text of the Declaration of Independence. It wasn’t emblazzoned across the front page as it would be today, because in the 18th century newspapers were produced slowly —typeset
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letter-by-letter and printed one-by-one. “Each side of each sheet of each copy had to be pressed by hand, a complex task that involved (among many other procedures) wetting the paper, ‘beating’ the type with ink-soaked balls, and repeatedly pulling
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