History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 180
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Mt. Pleasant Academy. — This institution was founded in 1814, through the liberality of the citizens of' the town; it was incorporated in 1820, and soon alter chartered by the Board of Regents. The present main building — a large' marble edifice, whs erecte d in 1830-32, at a cost of eighteen thousand dollars, under the supervision of Rev. N. S. Prime, OSSINING. the principal of the academy. In 1864 a three-story brick building, 75x45, was built and connected with the stone structure by a covered passage-way. A well-selected circulating library, organized near the beginning of the preseut century, became the prop-erty of the academy, and with the additions made from time to time, embraced in 1878 some two thou-sand volumes. At this time the trustees purchased the library of the late Mr. E. Porter Belden, contain-