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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 237

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] southwest of the village, on a small island connected with the main land by a stone cause-way." 2. West New Rochelle, 3. Petersville,5 and 4. Upper New Rochelle were scattered villages, mostly inhabited by Germans. North Castle. — Population, 2,487. Local particulars: — 1. North Castle; contained a church and a few houses. 2. Armonk; 6 contained three churches, a woolen factory, and twenty houses. 3. Kensico; 7 population, 103; contained several manufactories. 4. Quarter Station; in the extreme southern part of the town, on the Harlem Railroad. North Salem. — Population, 1,497. Local particulars: — 1. North Salem; contained two churches, a paper mill, and thirty houses. 2. Salem Center; a hamlet, the seat of the North Salem Academy. 3. Purdy's Station; a station on the Harlem Railroad; contained two churches and a small woolen factory. 4. Croton Falls; a station on the Harlem Railroad. Ossining. — Population, (5,760. Local particulars: — 1. Sing Sing; an incorporated village; population, about 5,300; contained four churches, the Mount Pleasant Academy, a female seminary, and several other popular female schools. 2. Prospect Hill;8 a scattered settle-ment on the southern border. 3. Spring Valley and 4. Sparta were hamlets. Pelham. — Population, 1,025. Local particulars: — 1. Pelhamville; a newly surveyed village and station on the New Haven Railroad. 2. Prospect Hill; a locality near the center of the town. 3.