More than a hundred years ago, the sprawling little village was designated as Collabergh Landing, but when Teller's Point was christened Croton Point, the natives made it unanimous by changing Collabergh to Croton Landing. Sloops and barges lay at anchor in Mother's Lap, waiting their turn to take on brick and ore for points up and down the Hudson. Steamboats from Peekskill and Poughkeepsie to down river villages churned into Croton Landing to take on freights. One of Croton's best known men sixty to seventy-five years ago was Harvey P. Farrington who operated sloops and then steamboats from Croton Landing and Ossining to New York. He became director of the Irving Savings Bank and the Irving National Bank of New York. His home was a palatial one in those days, with a view down the Hudson for more than twenty miles. The coming of the New York Central Railroad in 1849 effected the first change in the placid, rural life of the pretty village spread over the green hills above the Croton River. The second change came fifty years later, in the period between 1892 and 1905, as a result of the building of the great new Croton Dam to conserve all of the waters of the chain of Croton River lakes. Although the lowest bidder agreed to excavate the enormous pit down to bedrock, divert the river and build the great dam of masonry for a little over four million dollars, delays in acquiring the lands and farms New York City required, and the failures of the original bidders were such as to make the completed dam cost nearly seven million dollars. The contractors who were chosen finally to take up the