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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 348 (part 3)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In order to prevent contamination of the water by any settlement on the banks, it is proposed to pur-chase all the land within a quarter of a mile of the reservoir on all sides. 1 Communication from Commissioner of Public Works (Hubert O. Thompson) to the Mayor of New York, February 23, 1882.