History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 331
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Shrub Oak. — In the northern portion of the town, about one mile east of Lake Mohegan, is located the village of Shrub Oak, containing about one hundred and sixty people. It is situated on the road leading 454 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. to Peekskill, and six miles from that place. It is in the midst of an extensive plain, divided up into fine farms. Immediately to the north rise the Highlands of Putnam County. A number of dwellings are located in the village and its neighborhood, some of them being the resi-dences of New Yorkers. Mr. J..C. Nichols, a land-scape artist, and a prominent member of the Water-Color Association, has his summer residence in the western portion of the village. A handsome dwell-ing is that of Mrs. John C. Hart, whose husband was formerly a wholesale druggist in New York City.