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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900. 274 words

Mount Kisco, a station on the Harlem Railroad; contained 200 5. Whitlockville, « a station on the Harlem Railroad near the north border." inhabitants. Cortlandt.-- Population, 10,074. Local particulars :-- 1 . Peekskill ; an incorporated village ; population, 3,538; contained ten churches, the Peekskill Academy, four boarding schools, a bank, newspaper office, six iron foundries (chiefly engaged in the manufacture of stoves and plows, and giving employment to 300 men), two machine shops, two tobacco factories, a pistol lty

and gun factory, tannery, and gin distillery; connected by a steam ferry with Caldwell's ring Landing and by a daily steamer and line of sloops with New York. 2. Verplanck's Point; population, 1,456; contained a church, steamboat landing, and important brick manufactories, anout turning and men 1,350 to employment giving i't: thirty-four, was i Id in number whose a conve ntion. h ; in t S ?nt 'los( selecting State delegates to the national con1PP lov Weste lorn ventions nf tin' two parties in the historic yeai en--' hester Kidd, < of ;>ril. F. si ites: ]•Edward CI; 1. .1. 0 f Yonkers, •he1m;o. The Westchester County delegates to the ih, m w Od Democratic Stale convention were Thomas larve\ Torter, the ml Jo] of Smith, Gilherl S. Lyon, and Abraham Hyatt. ,', fro -embly Iw; m .it li in esti J. v distil. and William Radford, of Yonkers, was a contesting Roche lie. )ssi yra the Ml of if cle ( , fro district delegate from the nth congressional district the : ai i.sembly and (embracing Westchester County) to the Charleston national convention. To the Republican J.district. H. I' la it . c