Tate , Rachel Williams and Catherine Ackerly . Many of the descendants of these people reside in Croton - on - Hudson and vicinity today . Some time after 1903 the Meeting House was razed and the bodies interred in the Quaker Burying Ground were re- moved to other cemeteries . This Page Donated By ALFRED BLAZER , M.D. QUAKER MEETING HOUSE Early Industry The earliest settlers in the ham- let were the Dutch . They were fol- lowed by the English . Easy water transportation , the proximity to thriving New York and cheap labor were factors conducive to trade and industry in the early days of Cro- ton history . The chief industries in the early history of our village were flour milling and brick making . Croton Point for years was known for its grapes , apples , and culti- vated hot house roses . Croton Point Park Many years prior to World War I , Croton Point had ceased to be of any particular economic value . The clay had been exhausted for brickmaking , the vineyards and or- chards were no more and the hot houses were gone . When considera- tion was being given to making the peninsula a factory site the County of Westchester in 1924 purchased the Point and converted it into a recreation park . The Iron Horse The first great change in the quiet rural life of Croton ( called Collabergh Landing when the Point was Teller's Point ) came with the advent of the steam engine in 1849 . Men employed by the New York Central Railroad Company made their homes in Croton . Transporta- tion facilties made it possible for people to work in New York and reside in a small rural community . Soon the railroad made Croton a commuting residential village .