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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 377 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] On the south part of the turnpike road, and front-ing the north extremity of Croton Lake, is a substan-tial farm-house, which was evidently built in the best possible manner in the days of its erection. Large, commodious and possessing some degree of ornamen-tation, its appearance betokens the liberal means of its owner. It is the homestead of the Nelson family. It has, however, long since been given up by the members of the family as a residence and their home is over a mile farther north, in a residence equally substantial and commodious and nearer the centre of the town and their estates. Absalom Nelson came to this section at an early day and purchased proper-ty. His son William continued the life of a farmer*