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Man on Beach at Croton Point 1898
A black and white photograph showing a man in a suit and hat standing on a beach, with a crowd of people in old-fashioned clothing sitting and standing behind him. In the…
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these cuts the Point almost in two. At half tide, by portaging a couple of hundred feet, one can pass through the Point down to the mouth of the Croton River without going outside into the Hudson." This detail is…
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As summer comes to a close, let’s take a look at this nice postcard of swimming at Croton Point, circa 1915. The card was published for “W.H. Noll, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.” by Commercialchrome, a printer located…
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| HOME A BRIEF HISTORY of CROTON-ON-HUDSON from the perspective of the Great Hudson River Brick Industry at Croton Landing and Croton Point. TALES FROM CROTON POINT Sarah Gibbs Underhill, Kerhonkson, NY The first time I came to a…
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Croton Point, 1868
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Croton Point, 1775
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Historic Preservation Society hope that the project for a public park on Croton Point . . . will receive the public support which it deserves." 1 Explanation of Map Place whence Peterson and Sherwood fired on the boat . . . the Vulture , September
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Playland at Croton Point
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These photos are from the 1924 Report of the Westchester County Park Commission, published a year after the county acquired the land. The history of recreational use of Croton Point is described on the Westchester.gov website : Organized recreational
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and woman fishing in Croton Point Park After the New York Central Railroad folded into Penn Central in 1968, Croton-on-Hudson's economy slowly stagnated. Although Croton-Harmon station still served as the main transfer point northbound between local
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West Point on the British sloop Vulture laying at anchor off Croton Point. But members of the Westchester Militia spotted the ship. The Militia members brought a cannon in from Verplanck's Point and were able to damage the ship…
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unusual books in a variety of fields, is offering this map for sale on their website and they were kind enough to provide this image of the Croton Point section. Their detailed catalog description says these “were working river charts…
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the lower Hudson Valley on the rivers eastern short, Croton Point (earlier names for it were Senasqua, Tellers Point, and Sarahs Point) has been owned by Westchester County since 1924. Happily, it is no longer being used…
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Detail of the Hudson Highlands from a 1775 map, showing Croton Point when it was called “Enock Pt.” From A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the…
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…The Underhill family succeeded the Tellers in the ownership of
Teller's Point; and then the modern world demanded that its identity be linked with the river and the village, so called it Croton Point. In its day, Croton Point…
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Croton Point, 1875
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Croton Point, 1930
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This detailed Civil War period map of Croton Point is but a small detail of a magnificent 4 sheet, hand-colored map of the Hudson River, produced by the United States Coast Survey from 1861 to 1865. Kaaterskill Books, which…
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Smugglers, Bootleggers and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City by Ellen NicKenzie Lawson, contains an amazing 1924 aerial photo, purporting to show rum-smuggling submarines in the Hudson River near Croton Point. The photo appears in the chapter
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…Croton Point, from Sing Sing Teller’s or Croton Point divides Tappan from Haverstraw Bay. It is almost two miles in length and was called Se-nas-qua by the Indians, and by the English, Sarah’s Point, in honour…
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Photo of a woman and four girls posing while dancing on a lawn at the southern tip of Croton Point Park. The photograph was taken by Westchester resident John Gass, whose collection of over 1,000 images of Westchester’s…
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An aerial photograph, taken by a Manhattan map-making firm June 11, 1924, near Croton Point, purports to document two submarines (possibly rumrunners), each about 250 feet long and 600 feet apart, below the surface. A recently published book,
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Three Women at Croton Point
Three women in early 20th-century clothing sitting on a dirt path or beach. The woman on the right wears a distinctive feathered hat. Trees and a field are visible in the background.
Date: 1898…
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A wood engraving of Croton Point and the west bank of the Hudson River from Art Journal, 1875 . 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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On July 2, 1923 the Westchester Board of Supervisors purchased Croton Point and opened a limited area to the public. One of the plans for the land was to create a second amusement park, similar to Playland, which opened in…
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…Clarke , shows what the amusement park at Croton Point would have looked like. The top of the drawing is the Hudson River and the large circular building in the center is where the main parking lot is
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Croton Point Park Shore
Black and white photograph of a serene lake shore with trees in the foreground, rocks in the water, and mountains in the background. A boat is visible on the lake in the distance.
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Croton Point, circa 1957
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Playland at Croton Point
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