…Colonel Hammond, of local celebrity, was actively engaged in organising the militia for defence; Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, of the Croton manor of that name, was an active and efficient guard- ian of the east shore of the Tappan Zee…

…To the west is Route 9 and to the south is the Van Cortlandt Manor property, a five-acre historic estate. The Harmon commercial area includes a mix of smaller-scale shops along South Riverside and a large (30-acre…

…The name ther eastward into the Neversink-Rondout Aqueduct flow south first appeared as Neperan in the September 11, 1666, Indian con- through the lower course of the Neversink River as it tumbles firmation of the since-lost Van der…

…At the Battle of Kingsbridge (August 31, 1778) in present-day Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Nimham, his son Abraham, and approximately forty warriors were killed while serving in the Stockbridge Militia — "an irrevocable blow to the tribe." Following…

…serv't., PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT. From the Justices of the Marine Court. To the Honorable CLARKSON CROLIUS, E. D. WEST, WM. DODGE. The Justices of the Marine Court, Hammond, Sherman, and Randall, have the honor 65 258 CELEBRATION OF THE…

…Old Paulus Hook Ferry, at the foot of Cortlandt Street, was often spelled Powles Hook on old maps. In 1780 the Hudson froze from shore to shore, and was measured over the ice at this point, proving to be two…

…The Cortlandt Street Ferry still crosses the same water, but the multitude that it transports each day would populate a good- sized city; the several railroads making this their ter- minal station forming one of the principal arteries of New…

…That staunch patriot, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Chairman of the Com- mittee of Safety, addressed a letter to General Lee, protesting that the city was not capable of acting Digitized by Microsoft® 1 64 The Hudson River hostilely against the British…

…Van Cortlandt and others were busy at this time in organising the river guard, a fleet of whale-boats, manned by patriotic rivermen, and stationed in the bays and coves of the Tappan Zee and Haverstraw. This organisation afterwards did…

…A water purification and filtration plant currently being constructed in Van Cortlandt Park beneath the Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx to filter water coming through the aqueduct tunnel from the New Croton Reservoir. Croton Watershed: Consists of twelve culvert…

…It also joins historic Van Cortlandt Manor to the south. • Municipal Place Shopping Area, consisting of lots on the north and south sides of Municipal Place between Route 9 and Maple Street, and the commercially-zoned portion of the block…

…In the year 1697 the northern boundary of Van Cortlandt's manor was defined as running unto the north side of a high hill called Anthony's Nose, to a cedar tree which marks the southernmost bound of the land…

…as of this writing it is completely shut down pending the completion of the Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Section 1: Introduction of the land, the New Croton Aqueduct was buried deep underground. The…

…The buyers were Francis Rombout and Gulian VerPlanck, and the date of the transfer of their property from the Wappinger Indians was August, 1683. "Gulian Ver- Planck died before the English patent was granted by Governor Dongan ; Stephanus Van Cortlandt…

…The left, that included Livingston's, Van Cortlandt's, Hale's, Scannel's, and Cilley's regiments, the Connecticut militia, and Morgan's famous sharp- shooters, was on the heights three quarters of a mile from the river, under command…

…31, 1778, while on a scouting expedition in what is today Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Daniel Nimham and the Stockbridge were ambushed by not one but two of the British army’s most notorious units, the Queens Rangers…

…A linear park that runs from Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to the Croton Dam in Croton -on-Hudson. Old Croton Dam: Completed by John B. Jervis in 1842, but later submerged underwater after the construction of the New…

…These areas had previously been served by the Town of Cortlandt’s system. The sloped topography of the Village makes regulation of water pressure very important. The Village has invested in new pressure reducing valves to improve regulation of water…

…We would take them from Croton all the way down to Van Cortlandt Park in Yonkers, using buses; we would do, oh, five to six miles each trip. Lunch was planned; I had chaperones of course going with us, etc…

…s Nose at a marked Red Seader Tree, and along said River Northerly to the Land belonging to Stephanus Van Cortlandt and the Heirs of Francis Rhombout and G. Verplanck, and Eastwards in the Woods as far along the said…

…Local tradition credits Pierre Van Cortlandt with donating land for the church and cemetery to the Methodist Society. Freeborn Garretson's journal documents the first recorded service on March 10, 1793. Francis Asbury, the first bishop of the American Methodist…

…The Department of Environmental Protection is a governmental agency that now oversees all aspects of the Croton waterworks, including maintenance, protection, conservation, and construction of new infrastructure (i.e., the Water Treatment Plant in Van Cortlandt Park) related to the…

…Island) 526.0 Nature Preserves 133.2 Institutional Space (includes schools, libraries, Municipal Building, Temple Israel, Bethel Cemetery, and Van Cortlandt Manor) 109.0 Private recreational space (includes Hudson National Golf Course, and common open space within private residential developments…

…The New York City Parks Department gave the name Sackerah Woods to a playground in Van Cortlandt Park at the junction of Jerome Avenue and East Gun Hill Road completed in 2010. Thought to have been the name of an…

…Friends of Van Cortlandt Park 5. Federated Conservationists of Westchester County Funding Federal Grants Many federal grants are available to non-profit projects focused on parks and transportation. The National Park Service offers the Save America’s Treasures Grant Program…