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destination the Nikko Inn must have been in those days—and the “sharp and palpable difference” we would have “felt in the riding quality” of our car “shod with Goodyear Cord Tires.” For more on the Nikko, the Mikado and Harmon’s rich history, see

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Pinterest Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Harmon Harmon-on-Hudson Mikado Inn Nikko Inn prohibition speakeasys Transportation Published August 25, 2014

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October 12, 2014

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Croton’s first train station, circa 1849. Croton filmmaker, journalist and history-buff Ken Sargeant has shared with us a disk of images he acquired many years ago when he was doing some work with the late Roberta Arminio at the the Ossining

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Historical Society. Ms. Arminio was a long-time director of the OHS, as well as the Ossining town and village historian. We’ve selected a few rare 19th century images of Croton from Ken’s cache and are pleased to present the first in the series,

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courtesy of the Ossining Historical Society . Croton’s First Train Station, circa 1849 This is a very early photograph—possibly the earliest—of the first train station in what was then called Croton Landing. The station was built in 1849 and was

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located on the river side of the tracks, across from the intersection of today’s North Riverside Avenue and Grand Street (then called River Street and Lower Landing Road, respectively). There is a different photograph of this station in the Croton

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Historical Society’s Images of America book—which you can order here or purchase at the CHS office in the Municipal Building—but it was taken from the opposite side of the building and appears to be a later image. What’s significant about this

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photograph is that it shows the shore of the Hudson River before it was greatly extended with landfill and also nicely juxtaposes the old and new modes of transportation. Below is a detail of the area from a map of the property of Phillip G. Van

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Wyck. 1 The map helps approximate the age of the photo because it shows landfill and buildings on the river side of the station which don’t appear in the photograph. The map is dated 1850, making it likely that the photograph dates from 1849, the

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year the station was constructed. Detail from an 1850 map of the property of Phillip G. Van Wyck in Croton. The road on the right is today’s Grand Street, then called Lower Landing Road. Coming next: A photograph of the ornamental wooden arch and

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gate that once greeted worshippers and mourners visiting Bethel Cemetery. For more on the Van Wyck map, see this previous post . ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook

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Landing Hudson River Railroad Ossining Historical Society Phillip G. Van Wyck Published August 28, 2014 August 29, 2014

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The gateway to Bethel Chapel and Cemetery, circa 1860-1870. This image has been manipulated in Photoshop to make it lighter. The unretouched image is below. This is the second in a series of rare 19th century images of Croton, selected from a

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collection that Croton filmmaker, journalist and history-buff Ken Sargeant photographed many years ago at the Ossining Historical Society . To see the first installment click here . Bethel Cemetery Gateway, circa 1860-1870 Although you’d never guess

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it from looking at the driveway on Old Albany Post Road, during the time of the Civil War worshippers and mourners visiting Bethel Cemetery and Chapel would have entered the property through this quaint wooden gateway. The dirt road in the photograph

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follows the same path up the hill as the driveway does today and a number of the gravestones, particularly the two obelisks, are easily spotted. The photograph was most likely taken circa 1860 to 1870, but the property (which was smaller then than it

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is today) had a fence around it since at least 1831. In the Codicil to the Will of Philip Van Cortlandt wherein he bequeathed, “all that piece or parcel of Land . . . whereas the Methodist Meeting House now stands . . . to be used for a burying place

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for the Inhabitants of the Neighborhood, and the Meeting House for a Place of Public Worship under the direction of the Methodist Congregation . . .” he did so with the stipulation that the “Meeting House and the Fences are kept in good Order and

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Repair.” (emphasis added). 1 If you’d like to see the interior of the historic chapel 2 you can attend Sunday service tomorrow, August 31, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. For a fascinating look at the gravestones see The Graven Images of Bethel Cemetery by

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Carl Oechsner and Howie Meyers at the Croton Friends of History website . Coming next: A photograph of the tiny strip of land which once connected Croton Point to the mainland—long before landfill and the county dump altered the landscape forever.

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See the Codicil dated January 18, 1831 to the Will of Philip Van Cortlandt in Correspondence of the Van Cortlandt Family , volume III, pages 213-214. ↩ Both Bethel Chapel and Cemetery and the nearby Asbury United Methodist Church are on the National

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Register of Historic Places. ↩ Detail adjusted to bring out the lettering on the wooden arch. Unretouched image of the entrance gate to Bethel Cemetery. Although we have not seen the original photograph at the Ossining Historical Society, the image

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provided by Ken Sargeant appears to be a tintype, which enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s. 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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