Kellinger, called the Mansion house. This well known spot affords excellent accommodation to parties and strangers visiting the town.

The village itself, is pleasantly situated in a picturesque hollow on the banks of the Saw mill river, which here discharges its waters into the lordly Hudson. The dams of the various grist, saw mills and woollen manufactories, form a beautiful series of cascades ; while the wooded banks and surrounding hills add increased loveliness to the scene.

This place was called by its aboriginal possessors, Nappecka-mak, a name derived as before stated from its situation at

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the mouth of the Neperah ; or in other words it was the Rapid water settlement.

The Dutch afterwards conferred upon it the name of the Little Jonkers Plantation. This word was sometimes pronounced Yonkers, which gives us the present name of the village. During- the occupancy of the Phihpvs, it was called Philipshorough, after the Manor.

The Dutch termed the Saw Mill, the Saeg kil (stream.) After the Patroon's settlement, it was named in compliment to him, the Jonkers or Yonkers kill and Colendoncks kill. " Several fine creeks enter into the north river, says Van der Donck, such as the Colendonck's kil or Saw kil."^

Yonkers is now one of the most opulent villages in the county of Westchester. From its desirable situation on the Saw Mill and close vicinity to the Hudson, it has greatly improved m trade, of late years : many beautiful houses have been built, streets laid out, and a number of thriving manufactories erected and in full operation ; among these, are the two large sawing mills of Messrs Paddock, two mahogany mills of T. Copcutt, Norton and Moore, a large factory for the extraction of dye woods. Embossing fl\ctory of Dykes and Co., Carpet factory of Mitchell and Co., Hat body manufactory of Waring & Baldwin, and the glove skin dressing manufactory of T.