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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.
…Upon (he latter point his directions to Lee were unmistakable. He directed that the stores ami baggage be removed north
of the Croton River into General Heath's jurisdiction, and closed
with this injunction: " If the enemy should remove the…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…1,
south of the Croton, belonged to Philip van Cortlandt, from
whom it passed to the Hon. Pierre van Cortlandt. The following advertisement, dated March the 18th, 1762, relates to the sale
of the above lot. " Conditions of sale of…
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.
…is. --Creek near Yerplanck's Point. Delaware, Tummeu-esis,
Tanracken.-- A locality in Cortlandt. Tarackan, "the crane." The name was derived
from the loud and piercing cry peculiar to the genus, especially to the Grus americana or
Whooping Crane, which…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
The morning
of the 16'^'^ inst, General Wayne with a party of infantry attacked
the enemy's works at Stony Point -- the garrison consisted of
about six hundred men -- it being the dead of night they were
not discovered until…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Sackhoes was the site of Peekskill and Senasqua of
Croton Point meadow. Kitchawan signified a swift
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…The largest of these were upon
Croton Point, where considerable areas are still covered with them to the depth of two or three feet.
Bolton, Reginald Pelham. Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922.
…It thence passed the Cross
road to Burr's corners (on the Middle road
opposite the present Croton Reservoir) at 41st
street, and the road to Turtle bay on the East
River between 47th and 48th streets; thence
crossed the…
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.
…The most noteworthy of the streams emptying into the Sound is the
Bronx Eiver, whose outlet is between Hunt's Point and Cornell's
Neck. The Bronx lies wholly within Westchester County, having its
headwaters in the hills of the…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
…to the brick schoolhouse, thence southward to Gillet's grove, and from that point back to the South Cortland path, making a delightful runway of about five miles.
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Kingsbridge has always been a conspicuous point. Land was granted
there, in 1693, to Frederick Philipse, with power to erect a toll-bridge,
it being specified that it should be called Tlie King's Bridge. This was
3 B
THE…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…On Croton Point,
where the clay was favorable for this manufacture, a
trench has been discovered containing numerous
fragments of earthen vessels, along with charcoal,
indicating that here may have been a simple kiln for
burning pottery.
In the manufacture…
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.
…of Croton Point by the Tellers.
166; of Ryck's Patent. 107: of Oortlandt Manor.
168; of New Rochelle by the Huguenots. 174;
of Mamaroneck. 176; of Harrison by John
Harrison and others. 215: of White Flains by
Rye men…
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.
…Burr's capture of the West Farms
blockhouse, 4)\; storming of Stony Point, 452:
Tarleton's raid on ['oundridge, 456; British atompond, 458; Hopkins's fight with
(59: American descents on MorrisSastchester (17791. 459, 460; the
.use affair, 461; American…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Teller's Point, off which the
Vulture lay, and from which she received a cannonading that drove her
down the river ; King's Ferry, where Andre crossed the Hudson ; the
place of Pine's Bridge on the Croton, where he…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
…to the brick schoolhouse, thence southward to Gillet's grove, and from that point back to the South Cortland path, making a delightful runway of about five miles. In order to make the needed repairs and to extend the paths…
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.
They marked out a route from Macomb's
Dam to the Bronx River, which they declared to be the proper one
for the long desired supply, and added: "The Croton cannot be
brought in by this route, and cannot ever…
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.
…The highest point in Westchester County ( ac-
HISTORY
WESTCHESTER
COUNTY
cording to the figures of the United States Coast Survey) is Anthony's
Nose, 900 feet above half tide level.
PHYSICAL
DESCRIPTION
COUNTY
Of the streams of Westchester County the…
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.
…A former British party
came there from Verplanck's Point under Colonel Abercrombie,
guided by Caleb Morgan, a Tory of Yorktown, and burned a storehouse and the parsonage. In fact, the country above the Croton
River, which up to this…
The Evening World (New York, NY), May 16, 1922, Wall Street Final edition, p. 5. “Hooch Airplane Captured by State Troopers.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America: LCCN sn83030193.
…Thero are
many former army aviators who took
a lot of chances during tho war and
the little junket to Montreal, or some
other point on the Canadian border,
for about 150 bottles of real stuff
would appear to many…
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.
Port Chester; population, 1,695; a railroad station, containing five churches, several private seminaries, and ex> For,,, rrly callei 1 Mamarone ck Point, Great
Neck, :u id de Lan cry's Neck.
-' X.-U1H' (1 for .Ton I.ni L…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…Livingston had his quarters while watching
the Vulture, off Teller's (now Croton) Point, at the time of the treason
of Arnold. There Lafayette, and Rochambeau, and the Duke de Lauzun, were entertained; and the manor-house was always open…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Cortlandt.'^
Parson's Point is bounded on the West and South
by Hudson's River, and on the East and North by
Divided lands of said Manor of Cortlandt."
At the time of the first divisions of the Manor
there…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition.
…8TRi The flshingrtghts of the Van Cortlandt's are said to have extended two miles, i.e., from
Deer Island iu the river Croton to the marked rock on Crawbucky Point near Siug-Sing.
I IO
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY…
Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906.
…Y., xiii, 17.) The Kitchawan is now known as Croton river. It has no
connection whatever with Mamaroneck.
NAMES ON THE EAST FROM MANHATTAN NORTH. 35
as "Gravelly or Stony Brook," and "Beaver-meadow Brook," ^
'has been translated by Wm…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…The
Dutch, thereupon, burnt two of these strongholds, reserving the
third as a point to retreat to, in case of necessity. From this place
they next marched between thirty and forty miles further, but
discovered nothing save a few lir…
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.
…Most of the particulars
of the
sivcly, however, on the old aqueduct anil ante- aqueduct
in our text arc digested from
cedent conditions) is the " Memoir, etc., of (he King's " Memoir."
Croton Aqueduct," compiled by Charles King
first
Mr…
Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881.
…The site of an Indian
village is still pointed out, on the borders of the Great Pond, north of
cedar swamp, like\\"ise the remains of a cemetery on Cedar Point.^
Several roads intersect the town, running principally north and…
old_croton_aqueduct_raw.txt
…West Point-trained resident engi- neer Edmund French wrote to Jervis from Sing Sing, April 25, 1838, figure 37: Irish RIbbonmen, wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1859 Courtesy The Historical Society of the Tarrytowns. Photo: J. Kennedy…
croton_point_landfill_review_2019_raw.txt
water or obstructions were found. Cornerstone instruction on how to record data for well field. Proceeded to collect data for the month for CLF and RR1. Crew continued camera work on CLF headers. Greased blowers and exercised valves at Flare…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
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