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History Underfoot
History Underfoot
A homeowner in Harmon showcased Croton Point bricks integrated into their porch flooring, many bearing the stamp "WAU" (William A. Underhill's initials). These well-preserved bricks, worn by over a century of use, represent the…
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depreciate. The county should act quickly to secure the tract for its park system.” Advertisement for weekend trip from Harlem to Croton Point. Westchester County Engineer Jay Downer. A week later Westchester County exercised the law of eminent
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Beacon Falls Naugatuck Waterbury Penn Station service (planned) Penn Station Sunnyside Hunts Point * Parkchester/Van Nest Morris Park Co-op City Pascack Valley Line ← ( NJ Transit -operated section to Hoboken ) Pearl River Nanuet Spring Valley Port
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navigation lights on the Tappan Zee Bridge rendered it obsolete. In the 1970s Westchester County acquired the building from the Federal Government. In 1979 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Croton Point Dry Dock and Ship
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.
On returning to the village across the flelds northward of Mount
Pleasant, I obtained a full view of Teller's or Croton Point, which divides
Tappan from Haverstraw Bay, It is almost two miles in length, and was
called Se…
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.
The British warship " Vulture " an- chored above Teller's ( now Croton ) Point , in plain view of this little hamlet . While the warship awaited Andre's arrival from New York ( he had come to Dobbs Ferry by horse and was being…
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…In the distance at the end of the road on the right you can see Croton Point, and the flat marshland that existed before it became a county dump. Between the trees along the left side of
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knew] the Point homestead. He was successful in the brick business and with the vineyard of Catawba and Isabella grapes Dr. Underhill had vineyards also, but never brickyards. Both vineyards and brickyards were profitable. Having an ample income they
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…No payment is to be made until the work is satisfactorily done.” Croton Point, circa 1868. But on August 14, 1848, the
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biggest fundraisers was its annual music and environmental festival, the Clearwater Festival , held at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson , New York, from the late 1960s to 2022. [ 29 ] The festival was America's oldest and largest annual festival
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…Croton, Harmon, and Croton Point.
The map was created in January 1935 "in the office of the County Engineer, with workers supplied by the Westchester County Emergency Work Bureau." This indicates the map was a product of Depression-era public…
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Bathhouse Interior 1928A
Photograph of the Croton Point bathhouse (1928). From the Westchester County Park Commission Photograph Collection.
Date: 1928
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Source: Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
License: Public domain (county government records)
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Bathhouse Interior 1928B
Photograph of the Croton Point bathhouse (1928). From the Westchester County Park Commission Photograph Collection.
Date: 1928
Location: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Source: Westchester County Archives, Park Commission Collection
License: Public domain (county government records)
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During World War I it appeared that the Point would become the site of enormous factories. Fortunately, it finally became the property of Westchester County and its development as a public recreation area began in 1924. Boarding House and store,
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.
…Nearly three hundred and thirty years ago, upon an October evening, a fantastic little ship floated with the tide into the deep bay that
lay south of what is now Croton Point. A few- sailors who spoke Holland Dutch slipped…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Croton, Chief, 295-296
Croton Manor-house, 317
Columbian Celebration, 1892, 50 Croton Point, 10, 301, 304
Columbiaville, 509 Croton River, 11, 206, 21)3, 2()4, 337
Columbus, 2, 5 Crown Point, 483
Commissioners of Emigration, 41 Cruger, General…
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Hudson River View from Croton
Black and white photograph showing a view of the Hudson River from a vantage point in Croton, with trees and a wooden fence in the foreground, and a landscape of trees and possibly a golf…
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during the war for independence; Haverstraw, where Arnold and André had their conference; 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 André crossed…
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…In the area of New Castle, where it comes to a point on the Croton River near Deer Island, there is a J. C. Horton, living along today’s Quaker Ridge Road—which we assume was the “Horton’s Road…
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…Underhill, to whom the land belonged at Teller’s Point, objected strongly to a lighthouse being placed there, alleging that his own dwelling was near the point, and all the land was cultivated as a vineyard and highly
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.
More than a
hundred years ago, the sprawling little village was designated as Collabergh Landing, but when Teller's Point was christened Croton Point,
the natives made it unanimous by changing Collabergh to Croton
Landing. Sloops and barges lay at…
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on the verge of purchasing a portion of Croton Point for the construction of large dry docks and a shipyard. A huge channel connecting the main beach with the Hudson River would be constructed, with the entire project employing 1…
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…Groundwater 5 Croton Point Sanitary Landfill Railroad 1 Landfill, NYSDEC Site #360001 Post Closure Monitoring and Sampling Report, Table 1(RFW-12S): Groundwater d 6 Croton Point Sanitary Landfill Railroad 1 Landfill, NYSDEC Site #360001 Post Closure Monitoring and Sampling…
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independence; Haverstraw, where Arnold and Andre had their conference; 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…
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…Underhill confined his energies to the northern section of the Point where a
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…One son raised grapes on the point, while others helped operate the flour mill. Son George founded a mercantile company bearing his name in New York. Robert Underhill’s success was due to a
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…From no point on the Hudson can be seen, at a glance, such a cluster of historic localities, as from this eminence. Here Washington was encamped in 1782, and made this pinnacle his chief
Various (1971)
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[Various (1971)] To document his case, Brennan reviews the development of man in the Old World and discusses the possible cultures that could have been ancestral to the early migrants of the
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…Croton, Harmon, and Croton Point.
The map was created in January 1935 "in the office of the County Engineer, with workers supplied by the Westchester County Emergency Work Bureau." This indicates the map was a product of Depression-era public…
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Carl Oechsner and Howie Meyers at the Croton Friends of History website . Coming next: A photograph of the tiny strip of land which once connected Croton Point to the mainland—long before landfill and the county dump altered the landscape…