History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 272 (part 9)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The headquarters of the bank-were at first in the Westchester County National ' Bank building, and were afterwards moved to the corner of Centre and Division Streets. April 21, 1869, the bank was moved to its present location on South Street. In 1884 the assets of the bank were $1,445,-904.19. Uriah Hill, Jr., was president; Nehemiah S. Jacobs and Jacob M. Shipley, vice-presidents; Coffin S. Brown, treasurer; Sanfbrd R. Knapp, secre-tary. The Peekskill Water Works was completed and put into operation in the year 1875. Most of the work of its construction was performed under the di-rection of a board of water commissioners, consisting of Reuben R. Finch, president; George W. Robert-son, secretary; C. F. Southard, treasurer and William S. Tompkins and Gilbert T. Sutton. On a point oc-cupied during the Revolutionary War by an encamp-ment of American soldiers and hence known as "The Campfield,''" is located the reservoir. It is three hun-dred and seventy-six feet above tide water, is five acres in extent and has a capacity of thirty-one mil-lion gallons. The water is pumped from the Peeks-