The total population of the township in the same year was 1,709. There was also a settlement of some size at Tuckahoe, resulting from the opening of marble quarries there about 1823. and Tuckahoe was consequently one of the original stations of the Harlem Railroad. In 1850 there was organized in New York City an association called the " New York Industrial Home Association No. 1," composed mostly of tradesmen, employees, and other persons of small means. Its announced object was to see what could be done by co-operative action toward securing homes for its members where they could be relieved from the exorbitant rentals then exacted by landlords in the city; to which end it was proposed to purchase land and build a village within convenient distance of New York. One of the fundamental conditions on which the association was based was that a thousand members should be secured, and this object was accomplished in six months' time. Various men of influence in the city lent their hearty support to the project -- among them Horace Oreeley, the editor of the Trihime. The most active man in the enterprise was Mr. John Stevens, who was appointed purchasing agent.

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It is said that the selection of the site for the desired village was determined by a suggestion from Gouverneur Morris (son of the statesman of the same name), who, commenting on the extensive growth attained by Morrisania, observed that the next large settlement should naturally be at a point near the intersection of the New York and Harlem and the Now York and New Haven Railroads. Some one hundred farms in different parts of Westchester County were offered to the association, but the location pointed out by Mr. Morris was chosen by unanimous agreement. The land bought consisted of five farms, owned by Colonel John R.