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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 134 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] As stated elsewhere, it was formerly thought to be in Mount Pleasant, but a recent survey has shown it to be in Ossining. The County House. — At East Tarrytown, form-erly called Knapp's Corners, a short distance north of the Northern Railroad, which here bends to the west, and north of the Greenburgh line, within the township of Mount Pleasant, between the Unionville road on the west and the Nepperhan, or Saw-Mill River on the east, stands the '"County House," where the poor of Westchester County are provided for at the public expense. Adjacent to the buildings, but chiefly along the river to the north, lies the fertile farm of one hundred and seventeen acres, which fur-