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'76 . In addition to recording the roads and buildings, Hall provided a numbered key (see below) to points of historic interest. Edward Hagaman Hall was a journalist who became involved in a variety of preservation organizations at the turn of…

This is a detail from the Atlas of Westchester County, a color atlas created by the G. M. Hopkins Company between 1929 and 1931. It shows landmarks, land features, businesses, and some property ownership. The atlas is in four volumes…

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this engraving was 1872, the copyright was 1869—the same year attributed to his sister’s painting. Perhaps they climbed the hill together, each recording the beautiful vistas they saw below. This image is courtesy of The Old Print Gallery…

overlooking the Hudson River at Squaw Cove. During the 1930s an emergency airplane landing strip with a 214-foot runway was built in the ball field area. Thanks to the Oechsner Archive for these vintage photos. Share this: Print (Opens…

20th, 1780. Descendants of Peterson have the musket. Linden Cottage. Cannon ball found by Eugene Anderson, who now has it. It weighs five pounds. Old musket ram-rod found in clay. In possession of H. G Morehouse. Underhill Homestead. Old…

Crosby, Cooper's Spy , once enticed ashore and helped capture a boat-load of British soldiers. Farm house 135 years old. Italian villa built by Dr. Robert T. Underhill, deceased. Cannon ball found lodged in a tree about eighty years…

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today. Clarke designed many parks and public spaces in New York City and Westchester. This image, along with other works by Clarke, is available online at Cornell University Library . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link…

July 2, 1923 the Westchester Board of Supervisors purchased the park and opened a limited area to the public. They replaced a group of shacks known as “tent city” with baseball fields, and the dance hall with a camp for…

James McNeill Whistler, who went on to paint the iconic “Whistler’s Mother,” was a Coast Survey engraver. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook…

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Detail from the Town of Cortlandt map from Atlas of New York and vicinity … by F.W. Beers, published by Beers, Ellis & Soule, New York, 1868. The entire atlas is available online at David Rumsey . Share this: Print (Opens in…

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This hand-colored engraving, after a painting by William Hart, is from the portfolio Gallery of Landscape Painters—American Scenery published in New York by G.P. Putnam & Sons in 1872. The view is looking southwest from what we know…

Brooklyn from André Parmentier, a wealthy, educated Belgian who came to America to escape the French Revolution. Parmentier started a nursery that included a vineyard. At first he sold only European grapes but, according to Hedrick, he later added

Underhill. The ball is now in possession of S. W. Underhill and weighs about six pounds. The tree is not now standing, and the oldest inhabitant does not remember in which side of the tree the ball lodged. Place where…

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“the two American varieties, Catawba and Isabella, which were then becoming popular.” Underhill’s first batch of European varieties died, but he “had been fired with a consuming desire to grow grapes. In 1827 he began planting Catawbas and Isabellas.

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1, issue 1, January 15, 1917. ↩ Hall added a footnote, "Livingston's cannon may have been shifted from one place to another, as the Vulture got under way." ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to…

postcard, printed during the period when postal regulations prohibited any writing on the back except the address—hence the note to “Dear Peter” on the front. This card was published in Ossining by William Terhune—one of several local postcard

…The bridge crossing the lower Croton River appears to be where Quaker Bridge is today, but there was no bridge over the lower Croton in 1776. The bridge is actually Pine’s Bridge, which was several miles east of where…

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1891 1 , but it is probably the most accurate depiction of the water courses in the marsh area as it was in 1905 when this article was written. Atlas of the Metropolitan District and adjacent country comprising the counties of…