[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On the top of the hill is the district school, a two-story brick building, in which (in ISS:!) the average number of pupils in attendance, daily, was seventy-two and the number of teachers employed two. The house of Miss Susan McCord, a short distance south of the school-house, on the opposite side of the street, was formerly an inn and the stopping-place of the New York and Albany stages. North of the village is locate 1 Hessian Hill, so called from the fact that a Hessian encampment was lo-cated there in Revolutionary times. CORTLANDT. 421 The Croton Military Institute is a large building in the southern part of the village. 'Die number of stu-dents in 1884 was twenty-eight. Frank S. Roberts has been principal since September, 1880. Jle is as-sisted by a corps of five teachers. The institute has a classical course of four years, which educates schol-ars for college, a " liberal course " of four years fur-nishing instruction in the English branches, the nat-ural sciences, etc., and a commercial course of one year. There are in the village rive churches, — two Meth-odist Episcopal (one unused), one Protestant Episco-pal, one of the Society of Friends and one Catholic, their histories are appended. Methodist Episcopal Church? — The history of Meth-odism at Croton and its neighborhood dates back beyond one hundred years.