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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 114 (part 5)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] A broad, velvety lawn appeared skirted by garden ter-races, horse chestnuts, and the old Albany and New York Post Load, above which rose Locust Hill. To the right and left were laid out gardens and grounds, in which flourished valuable trees and choice shrubs and flowers, and through which, in all directions, stretched graveled walks, bordered with box. To the west the green-