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minutes deliberation” in what newspaper accounts at the time called the first case to be tried in Westchester County for an alleged violation of the New York State liquor law. 11 Postcard of the entrance to the Mikado Inn. One Last Mystery In

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addition to the pilot’s identity and gender, the suspicious presence of a waiting car, and the possible Croton connection, there’s one last mystery. Two days after the crash an article in the New York Evening World reported details not found in other

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accounts. After describing the discovery of the map and “several articles of feminine attire” the article states that “information obtained today indicates an attempt was made to recover this map from the wreck. Among those who visited the scene

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yesterday was a young man in a naval aviation uniform. He said he heard the machine had been abandoned and he thought there might be parts he could salvage. According to Dr. Miller of Croton 12 a man in the uniform of a naval aviator reached the

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plane soon after it crashed and called to the pilot, naming him ‘Bill,’ to ask what had happened. The pilot replied that his engine had ‘gone back’ on him. Then the pilot and the naval aviator got into an automobile and drove away.” 13 Who was the

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man in the naval aviator’s uniform and why did George McCall not mention him in his account of the crash? Learn more about Croton in the Prohibition era: Rum-running Submarines off Croton Point? The Motorist’s Playground Oscar Levant Plays the Mikado

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A Delightful Place to Dine Roy Kojima, Busted and Boastful Our Multi-Talented Federal Prohibition Agents If You Follow the Road to Harmon, You Surely Can’t go Wrong Tumble Inn Mikado Inn “Real Photo” Postcard, circa 1920 This is Mikado Inn What’s

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Cookin’ at the Mikado? Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are from the New York Times article “Liquor Laden Plane from Canada Falls as it Nears City,” May 16, 1922. ↩︎ “Busy Liquor Route is Shown on Air Route Map,” The Journal & Republican ,

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Lowville, New York, June 1, 1922. ↩︎ Newspaper accounts differ on how many bottles were in the airplane and how many were broken in the crash. The headline of the New York Times article correctly said the plane had 250 quarts but the text had a typo

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and reported the quantity as 150 quarts. Many newspapers picked up the lower number. The Times reported that “about 100 bottles had been smashed.” ↩︎ The Journal & Republican , Lowville, New York, June 1, 1922. ↩︎ “Only Prices Aviate, Say

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Bootleggers, Who Surely Know,” Buffalo Courier , May 21, 1922. ↩︎ “Hooch Airplane Captured by State Troopers,” New York Evening World , May 16, 1922. ↩︎ The Evening World , New York, May 17, 1922. ↩︎ “Powder Puff Betrays Woman as Pilot of Wrecked Rum

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Plane,” New York Tribune , May 17, 1922. ↩︎ “Inn’s Wine List Gets Inn In Bad,” The New York Evening World , April 4, 1922. ↩︎ The New York Times , June 17, 1922. ↩︎ “Westchester Innkeeper Acquitted in Liquor Case,” New York Evening Telegram , July

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12, 1921. ↩︎ Additional research is needed, but articles in the Peekskill Highland Democrat in 1917, 1926 and 1927 refer to “Dr. Miller of Croton.” ↩︎ “Sky Runner Had Woman’s Aid Is Now Believed,” New York Evening World , May 17, 1922. ↩︎ Share this:

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On May 15, 1922, when the Rum Plane crashed in Croton with 250 quarts of Canadian Scotch, it attracted the attention of the police, the press and curious Crotonites. An article in the New York Times reported that when the Westchester County police

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reached the wrecked plane they found “country folk grouped about the battered remains of a once gallant craft, some of them looking quite cheerful over that which the air had provided, others shaking their heads in grief over . . . what had once been

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perfectly able-bodied whisky bottles.” Luckily, one of the “country folk” who hiked up the hill near the Tumble Inn brought along a camera and snapped a couple of photos of the plane before it was dismantled by the police and moved to White Plains.

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Years later, someone put the photos in a small envelope and wrote a note on the front that saved them from obscurity: About 1920 A Curtis Scout Plane crashed across road from our Oscawanna. Had a load of “Farm” whiskey aboard. Last year the envelope

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was discovered in the collection of the Manchester Historical Society in Manchester, Connecticut. When the curator did some research and realized that “Oscawanna” (properly spelled Oscawana) was in New York State, he sent them to the Peekskill Museum

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with a handwritten note. “I am sure there is an interesting story to go with them. Found them in our collection. No further information on them.” Who was the photographer? Was it the same person who wrote the note? And what did they mean by “our

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Oscawanna?” For the full story of the Rum Plane, see this post . 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

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Riverside Avenue in the early 1900s. Today marks the 120th anniversary of the incorporation of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, which took place on February 12, 1898. The Manual of Westchester County , published the same year, noted that a special

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election was held “on the question of incorporation” and “the electors of that locality . . . cast seventy-four (74) votes in favor of the proposition and twenty-one (21) votes against.” Croton’s population at the time of incorporation was 1,244

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people. Today, it is more than 8,000. Brickmaking was still a major industry in the village and the construction of New Croton Dam, which began in 1892, had finally reached the point where the Croton River had been diverted around the construction

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site, 1,821,400 cubic yards of earth and 400,250 cubic yards of rock had been excavated and the immense foundation was finally being laid. Photograph of the New Croton Dam construction site in 1898, the year the Village of Croton-on-Hudson was

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incorporated. Despite all the digging for clay along the Hudson River and the incessant construction of the dam, the Manual of Westchester County noted something about Croton that is still true today— “the village is attractive as a residence

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locality and its citizens are progressive.” 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

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