[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] have arrived in our general narra-tive, Yonkers, destined to a posi-tion of unquestioned supremacy among the municipalities ofWest-chester County, was just prepar-ing to emerge from a primitive condition of absolute insignifi-cance..Mount Vernon was still nn-tlionght of. The representative villages for local enterprise wore Sing Sing and Peekskill on the Hudson, and West Farms in tin southern section of the county. West Farms had by this time become the most progressive locality within tin1 ancient Township of Westchester. To its prominence in this regard it was indebted for the employment of the water power of the Bronx River for manufacturing uses. in 1836 an ambitions attempt was made by a syndicate of New York capitalists to create a new community in Westchester County, which it was fondly hoped would spring at once into a flourishing condition. Allen W. Hardy and nine associates, attracted by the beautiful situation of Verplanck's Point, and believing that a village founded there would speedily rival Peekskill, bought the property for |300,()00 from its proprietor, Philip Verplanck, to whom it had descended from the original Philip Verplanck, grandson of Stophanus Van Cortlandt. These £>entlemen laid oil the Point into streets and COKXEI.irS YAXm.RKILT. GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 563 avenues, reserving portions of it for parks; but lot purchasers did not appear, and after a year or two the undertaking was abandoned with heavy loss.