Robert Havell (1793-1878) View of Croton Point from Sing Sing, New York oil on canvas 38 x 50 in. (96.5 x 127 cm.) Painted circa 1845. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to…

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following years it obtained prizes at the New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Horticultural Societies and other grape exhibitions, attracting marked attention. The late H. E. Hooker, of New York, said: “The Croton succeeds very well indeed in

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Americans 2 when they brought the cannon down to the point. Vouched for by S. W. Underhill, who lived there for sixty years. Dotted shore is low and sandy. Where the shore has declivity marks it is high and rocky…

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…This was the first large vineyard in the country.” Underhill’s hybrid grapes. “Croton” (above) and “Senasqua” (below) were described in

…According to his 1941 obituary in the Ossining Citizen-Register , he had lived in Croton for 29 years and had operated the restaurant for 25 years. His wife, Ella Munson Noll,

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when Croton was an even bigger railroad facility than it is today. G. The bungalow colony that existed on Croton Point, shown in exquisite detail. If you're interested in learning more about the colony check out the new Facebook…

Hudson River Railroad, crossing the mouth of the Croton River and Croton Point in 1868, from F.W. Beers’ Atlas of New York and vicinity . Just there, near the south shore of Croton Point, and about a quarter of a…

…At the time of his death he lived at 8 Hamilton Avenue in Croton. 2 A great resource for identifying postcard printers is metropostcard.com . ↩︎ Ossining Citizen-Register, May 23, 1941, page 2 column 4. See here . ↩︎ Share this: Print

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southeastern Westchester; Volume 2: south central Westchester; Volume 3: southwestern Westchester and along the Hudson River to North Tarrytown; and Volume 4: northern Westchester.) The entire atlas is available online at Westchester.gov . Share

and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships The whole composed from Actual Survey and its Situation adjusted by Astronomical Observations by Thomas Jeffreys. Augsburg, Germany: Tobias Conrad Lotter, 1775. Share this: Print (Opens in new

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and surveyor who established the first magnetic observatory and served as the first president of the National Academy of Sciences. For more information on the history of this innovative organization, see this NOAA website . One fascinating tidbit:

century. According to the New York Preservation Archive Project , Hall's "efforts in preservation can be attributed in large part to the City Beautiful movement in the early 1900s. . . . Hall was pivotal in the nascent efforts to pass legislation

monitoring the aesthetic fabric in New York City." He was also an officer of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. The ASHPS was instrumental in advocating the preservation of

bordered with cloth and hanging loops, hand colored, red borders. Though the U.S. Coast Survey rarely produced charts on rivers, the Hudson was one exception given its position as a major thoroughfare. Interesting, unusual, and quite uncommon as a

complete run of the river from one user.” The map was produced from “a Trigonometrical Survey Under the Direction of A.D. Bache” the second Coast Survey Superintendent, who was great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was a physicist, scientist,