The views from Floyd Keeler's residence are, indeed, charming ; embracing hills and woods, and a fine panoramic landscape of the Mutighticoos valley looking north-west with the distant mountains bordering on Putnam County and Hudson River. On the north is the mansion of Mr. Walter Keeler, beautifully surrounded with evergreens and other shubbery. This gentleman has done much to improve the neighboring village of North Salem, having erected a fine store in the upper portion

Abvjah Gilbert, clerk.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

of which is occupied as Union Hall a large room for assemblies and public occasions while adjoining is Floral Hall for fairs and horticultural exhibitions.

In the midland section of the town are some fine grazing farms; among which may be mentioned the Lobdell estate. This property originally consisting of nearly two hundred acres was formerly included in the manor of Cortlandt, and leased by Ebenezer Lobdell of Stephen James De Lancey before the Revolution, and subsequently purchased by him at a sheriff's sale. Ebenezer Lobdell at his death divided the farm between his two sons, Ebenezer and Jacob ; the latter had four sons -- Anson, Nathan, Joshua and Samuel. Nathan was the father of the present Mr. Henry Lobdell, who resides on a portion of the old estate.

This parish, which appears to have been formerly united with Ridgefield and Ridgebury, was first organized under the ministry of the Rev. Ebenezer Dibblee, D.D., of Stamford, Conn., about the year 1749." At that period, there was no minister of the Church in the county nearer than Rye, between thirty and forty miles distant from Salem.