History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
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TOWN HISTOEIES.
SCARSDALE. BY ALL.\>' M. BUTLER, M.D.
The town of Scarsdale is in its general outline rhomboidal, the long diameter running nearly due north and south and extending from a point about a mile south of the county court-house in White Plains in a southerly direction for two miles. The shorter diameter runs nearly due west from Scarsdale Station,
on the New York and Harlem Railroad, for about a mile and three-quarters, until it meets " Branch Brook," a small stream forming part of the western boundary of the township. The area of the town is about six thousand acres, and the general regularity of its outline is broken just west of the southern angle by a projecting portion of the town of New Rochelle, nearly a mile in lenoth and ranging from one-half to one-cjuarter of a mile in brea<lth. The town is bounded on the northeast by White Plains and a small part of Mamaroneck; on the southeast, by Mamaroneck and New Rochelle ; on the southwest by New Rochelle and East Chester and on its entire northwest border by Greenburgh. In the centre of the town rises the Hutchinson River, which flows in a southerly direction, and on the east, another stream, the " Shelldrake," -- or as it appears on the old records, " Branch Brook," -- both flowing into the Sound, the latter being a tributary of the Mamaroneck River.