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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…
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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
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41.20417°N 73.88611°W / 41.20417; -73.88611 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Village in New York, United States Croton-on-Hudson, New York Village Village of Croton-on-Hudson View from Croton Point Park Flag Seal Location…
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…Croton Dam on the Croton River overlooks the New Croton Reservoir that it creates (outside the village limits in the Town of Cortlandt). Croton Point Park is a 508-acre county park on a large peninsula in the Tappan
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…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…
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Richmond, Westchester . . . Published by Julius Bien & Co. New York. 1891 ↩ Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X…
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These two prints, from U.P. Hedrick’s, The Grapes of New York , published in 1908, show the grapes that made Richard T. Underhill famous as the “Grape King.” Underhill began his vineyard by planting European varieties of grapes he…
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Isabella & Catawba grapes.” The Grape King of Croton Point As readers of this blog know, Richard T. Underhill was the “Grape King,” who built the first commercial winery in the United States on Croton Point. He began his vineyard by…
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Croton Point in 1868 from the “ Atlas of New York and vicinity from actual surveys by and under the direction of F.W. Beers ,” showing the R. D. Tallcot Steam Brickyards on the northern tip. We can walk along the…
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a submarine emerge on the Row with a German captain and a French crew. Newspapers in 1924 reported that submarines were smuggling liquor to New Jersey and Cape Cod. An aerial photo, taken by a commercial Manhattan map-making firm…
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bore its first fruit 1865. See Underhill vineyard trade cards and magazine ads here and here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in…
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"Camping at the City's Doors" was the title of an article in the June, 1905, issue of Country Life in America magazine, which described places where "one can feel as far away from civilization as upon an Adirondack lake…
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operated from 1910-1920 and the white border on the front and divided back (with separate space for the message and address) means it was probably printed circa 1915. 1 “W.H. Noll” is likely William H. Noll, proprietor of…
Hogue, O. Wendell, and Veronica Gilbert Agne. “A Brief Historical Sketch of Croton-on-Hudson.” In Croton on Hudson Golden Jubilee, 1898-1948, September Nineteenth to Twenty-Sixth. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Croton Golden Jubilee Committee, 1948. Seq 14 only — additional pages not yet extracted from HathiTrust htid nyp.33433062496793.
…90B . ** Alvin McCaslin Higgins , The Story of Croton , Quarterly Bulletin , Westches- ter County Historical Society , Vol . 16 , No. 3 , July 1940 , pp . 55-57 . mentary School commemorates this event . The point of land which we call Croton Point was known…
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below the surface of the Hudson River, each 250 feet long and 600 feet apart. The aerial firm sent the photograph to the U.S. Navy, which had no submarines in the area, and the startling image was given to…
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…Croton-on-Hudson, Hudson River, Croton Bay, Croton Point Park, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
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“Rum Row”—the name of the smuggling area of the Atlantic coast from Nantucket to New York City and New Jersey. Lawson writes, “News of a submarine being used on Rum Row appears to have some substance to it. One…
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walkways to Croton Point and Croton Landing Park. [ 23 ] Silver Lake Park is a 13.5-acre park with a beach along the Croton River with trails to Carrie E. Tompkins elementary school (CET) and the north tip of Cleveland…
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Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, which includes the Rum Row chapter. Thanks to the New York History Blog, which alerted us to this book with their recent review . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print…
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a lot of resentment in the village over the loss of a big part of Croton history. 1972 -- some 40 million gallons of toxic waster were running into the Hudson River from the landfill at Croton Point. 2003 Croton is…