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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 202 (part 6)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This is not the only example which history furnishes of a narrow and short-sighted policy, resulting in the ruin of one town and the building up of another. The river-transportation of a half-century ago was vastly more important than it is at present. That was before the days of railroads. Then the pro-duce of the entire agri-