🏘️ Croton Local History

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Albert Harker. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. All quotes from the minutes of the July 9 meeting are from Peter Force’s American Archives , volume 1, fifth series, pages 1385-1392. ↩ Abbott, Wilbur Cortez. New York in the American Revolution .

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New York, London: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1929. ↩ Holt also printed the Declaration as a full-page in the July 11 issue of his newspaper, the New-York Journal . The opposite page had a note which read “ The Declaration of the United States of America, is

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inserted in this paper . . . to oblige a number of our Customers, who intend to separate it from the rest of the paper, and fix it up, in open view, in the Houses, as a mark of their approbation of the INDEPENDENT SPIRIT of their Representatives .” ↩

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Three other copies are at the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library and the Cincinnati History Library and Archives. An additional copy is in private hands. ↩ It was not signed on July 4th and some signatures were not added until years

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later. ↩ 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 window) Pinterest Share

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on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Declaration of Independence Pierre Van Cortlandt Published July 5, 2013 July 2, 2019

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In September 1859, The Gardener’s Monthly published an account of a trip to Croton Point, which the author says was “visited through the summer by numerous travellers, who are permitted to drive through the grounds.” We’re lucky that Dr. Underhill

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allowed such free access to his property because this brief article gives us tantalizing details about the scope of his business—the fruit he grew in addition to grapes, the “deer-park and fish-pond” on Croton Point and his “near at hand . . . Mount

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Green farm,” which suggests that Underhill also owned land along Mount Green Road in Croton. 1 “Croton Point, where Dr. Underhill has . . . been engaged in the formation of one of the largest vineyards in this country . . . to see how well he has

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succeeded it is only necessary take the boat . . . to Sing-Sing, whence you readily reach the vineyards. They are daily visited through the summer by numerous travellers, who are permitted to drive through the grounds. . . . the northwest and

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southeast slopes are covered with vines so arranged, that a perfect draught of air is kept up between the rows. The land for these has been prepared at a cost of over four hundred dollars per acre; and from a soil apparently poor, you see thousands

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and thousands of grape-vines springing forth with luxuriant growth and full of green, white, pink, and purple fruit. The odor these vineyards, when the vines are in bloom, is exceedingly fragrant . . . At the end of the Point is situated the house, a

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beautiful Italian villa, from the tower of which is the most charming view perhaps on the whole Hudson. Immediately around the villa, you see a large and choice variety of pear trees, whose luscious fruit might tempt a sated Sybarite. As shown at the

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end of this ad—published the same year as the Gardener’s Monthly article—Apple-Qunice was another fruit grown on Croton Point. A little farther up the Point are the deer-park and fish-pond. In the former are some beautiful deer, that seem free to

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wander where they will. Over the whole of the farm there is scarcely a fence, and these deer are shut in by wires stretched from tree to tree, so that the view is in no way interrupted . . . Around the bounds of the fish-pond (through which the

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Doctor has ingeniously contrived that the tide shall so ebb and flow as to permit the fish to enter, and having entered, not go forth again) he has a most select variety of plum trees, whose and golden fruit hangs out over the water . . . In addition

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to his vineyards at Croton Point, the Doctor has near at hand his Mount Green farm, which he contemplates covering with vines. You need not go to the Rhine to see vineyards and enjoy scenery. . . .” Mount Green Road is off Old Post Road North, near

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Lounsbury Road. ↩ 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 window)

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Detail from John Rink’s “Plan of the Central Park, New York: Entry no. 4 in the Competition,” March 20, 1858. New-York Historical Society Library. Rink’s plan included a monumental museum structure, along the south and east sides of the Croton

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Reservoir. In 1857 the Central Park Commission held a contest to improve the landscape design of the newly opened park. Thirty three entries were submitted, only five of which have survived today. The “Star Ground” section of Rink’s design. Two of

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the rejected designs are currently on display at the New-York Historical Society, giving us a look at the Central Park that might have been. One is a spectacular design by John Rink, filled with formal gardens in elaborate decorative patterns and

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shapes. Rink was an engineer who had been employed in the initial years of the park’s creation. In a publication celebrating the 150th anniversary of Central Park in 2003, the Rink design was aptly described at “a folk-art fantasy of Versailles . . .

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indifferent to topography, filled with ornate symmetries, and crammed with ornamental features.” 1 To learn more about Rink’s work and the other rejected design on display, see this post on the New-York Historical Society website. Viewpoints , Garden

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History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center, vol. 1, num. 1, Fall/Winter, 2003/2004. Available online here . ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens

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