[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The annual dividends paid amounted to from twenty-five to forty cents per share. The last dividend was paid in 1849, and the stock of the Croton Turnpike Company was transferred to a non-resident, the gates removed and it became a free road, although still known as the "Turnpike." The last board oV directors were Thaddeus Crane, Ray Tompkins, John Titus, John J. June, Edwin Crosby, Jabez Jones, Silas Finch, Gerard Crane, Caleb S. Angevine; John Titus, president; Jabez Jones, secre-tary. The railroads touching the town are but two. A branch of the New York and Harlem, running from Golden's Bridge, a distance ofseven miles in a north-erly course, to Lake Mahopac, is the first railroad that ever 1y>uched this latter point. Nearly its whole length is within the borders of the town. It is said to have been the first really new road complete ever constructed by the late Commodore Vanderbilt. Pre-vious to its construction, parties seeking Mahopac as a summer resort were carried by stages from Croton Falls. A railroad project was broached for the western part of the town by which communica-tion could be established between New York, differ-ent points on the Hudson and the New England States. This scheme was unfolded to the authorities of the Harlem road and a plan was at once formed to run a branch road from the Harlem at Golden's Bridge, direct through Somers Centre to the L:ike.