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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 238

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] pal owner. 592 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY tensive manufactories, which included a foundry, edge tool factory, tide gristmill, and a last and shoe factory. 5. King Street; "a fine agricultural district, extending nearly seven miles north of Port Chester." 0. Glenville; a hamlet on the Byram River. Scarsdale. — Population, 548. Local particulars: — 1. Scarsdale; contained a church and a few houses. 2. Scarsdale Station; a station on the Harlem Railroad. Somers. — Population, 2,012. Local particulars: — 1. Somers; contained two churches, a bank, and twenty houses. 2 Croton Falls; on the line of North Salem; a small village and station on the Harlem Railroad; had a good water power. 3. West Somers; a hamlet. Westchester. — Population, 4,250. Local particulars:— 1. Westchester; population, about 1,000. 2. Bronxdale; population, about 400; had an extensive tape factory and a dye and bleach works. 3. Sclmylerville; population, about 300; a scattered village on Throgg's Neck. 4. Integrity; near Bronxdale; had a tape factory. 5. Connersville, 6. Wakefield,°7. Centreville, and 8. Unionport, were "modern villages." Fort Schuyler, at the extremity of Throgg's Neck, was begun by the United States government in 1833, and was built to ac-commodate 1,250 men and to mount 318 cannon. West Farms. — Population, 7,098. Local particulars: — 1. West Farms; a "large village," containing four churches, a carpet factory, molding mill, and gristmill. 2. Fordham; a rail-