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…Situated in the northwest portion of the Village, off Scenic Drive and Albany Post Road, the property was subdivided in the mid-1990s to build 36 single-family Half Moon Bay condominiums River Landing Development Arrowcrest Development 9 Source: Croton…
Hogue, O. Wendell, and Veronica Gilbert Agne. “A Brief Historical Sketch of Croton-on-Hudson.” In Croton on Hudson Golden Jubilee, 1898-1948, September Nineteenth to Twenty-Sixth. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Croton Golden Jubilee Committee, 1948. Seq 14 only — additional pages not yet extracted from HathiTrust htid nyp.33433062496793.
…Bethel Chapel The land , on which Bethel Chapel stands , consisting of four acres , was ceded to Croton Landing by Pierre Van Cortlandt in 1777. It was origi- nally used as a burial ground . This chapel , built in 1780 , is one…
Higgins, Alvin McCaslin. The Story of Croton. Paper read before the Ossining Historical Society, 1938. Published posthumously in The Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1940), pp. 49-63.
…The cavalcade of wagons and trucks that had rolled and rattled down to Croton
Landing every morning to receive the blocks of granite and tons of
cement which kept pouring into Croton in endless profusion, ceased
to operate.
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Slaughterer's Landing
The Terrace Bridge and Mall
RockhuKl Lake
A Squatter Village
Mouth of the Croton
Provoost's Tomb -Jones's Woods
Croton Dam
View near Hell-Gate
Ventilators
The Beekman Mansion
High Bridge over the Croton
Turtle Bay…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Slaughterer's Landing
The Terrace Bridge and Mall
RockhuKl Lake
A Squatter Village
Mouth of the Croton
Provoost's Tomb -Jones's Woods
Croton Dam
View near Hell-Gate
Ventilators
The Beekman Mansion
High Bridge over the Croton
Turtle Bay…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Order of the Fire Department Procession, on the occasion of the Croton Celebration,
October Uth, 1842.
At the head of the procession was a Band of Music, brought from Philadelphia, by
the Neptune Hose Company of that city. Immediately after…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
Italian Universal Benevolent Society, with an
elegant banner of the landing of Columbus
on the discovery of America. St. David's Society, preceded by a stage on which were seated three bards with long
beards, playing on their Cambrian harps…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
The landing [of Andre, from the V';(/////-r] was made at
a dock used as a shipping place for wood and stone. A portion
of this dock still remains. There is an old stone house three
hundred feet north of…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…Hence for convenience sake the
Dutch traders sought the landing place of the Indians, in the sheltered North side of the Estuary of
the Croton, then an open bay without the sedge
flats which now nearly fill it. Here too…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…Near the village landing are situated the nursery gardens of
Mr. James Lock, a well known Horticulturist. Jn the vicinity of
Sing Sing the sliores of the Croton bay are decked with numerous
country seats. The first property south of…
Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848.
…The apparitions have been
named, in consequence, "The Walking Sachems of Teller's
Point." The road from the Manor House to Croton Landing
passes along the edge of Haunted Hollow.
In connection wUh the above, another tradition deserves to be…
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania, NY: (privately printed by the author), 1886.
…make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere. 6
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have dropped down the river, still further,' probably
to the mouth of the Croton-river ; 8 and it is very…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Situated just where the road from Sing Sing to Croton Landing crosses
the wide mouth of the Croton River, where that stream empties into
the Hudson, it commands a magnificent view of the broad Tappan
Sea. In former times the…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere.*
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have drop[)ed down the river, still further," probably
to the mouth of the Croton-ri ver ; * and it is very…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…These two Companies arrived by
rail road from Philadelphia on the day previous, and were received at the landing in Jersey City, by a Committee appointed by the New York Fire Department. On their arrival in the city, they were…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
…Paired charcoal and shell dates 4500 to 5000 years old are in agreement from the Piping Rock, Croton Point, and Twombly Landing sites (Brennan 1974:Table 1). With the recovery of a Neville point, there are now artifacts older than…
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html
…CROTON LANDING, April 20,--Yesterday was by far the liveliest day in and around the Croton valley since the strike began 18 days ago. The civil and military authorities played a very prominent part in the day's proceedings, and…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
Before the deputy sheriffs about the works knew of the arrival of troops in Croton valley the strikers were aware of it. There was a blowing of horns, and while the troops were resting at the station waiting for the…
King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843.
…Italian Universal Benevolent Society, with an
elegant banner of the landing of Columbus
on the discovery of America. St. David's Society, preceded by a stage on which were seated three bards with long
beards, playing on their Cambrian harps…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
…Before the deputy sheriffs about the works knew of the arrival of troops in Croton valley the strikers were aware of it. There was a blowing of horns, and while the troops were resting at the station waiting for the…
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, April 17, 1900: "SERGEANT MURDERED. First Bloodshed in Croton Landing Strike. SOLDIER SHOT BY ASSASSIN. Member of Mount Vernon Militia, While Relieving Guard, Suddenly Falls, Pierced With Bullet Fired By Unknown—Excitement Runs Wild Over Affair." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the first death at Camp Roosevelt during the 1900 New Croton Dam strike — Sergeant Robert Douglass of the Eleventh Separate Company, New York National Guard, shot at 9:50 p.m. April 16, 1900. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-bloodshed-during-croton-dam.html
…Abrahams left the armory for Croton Dam. STATE LAWS. Some Important Measures Which Have Received Governor's Signature. ALBANY. April 17.-- Governor Roosevelt has signed the following laws: Mr. Apgar, appropriating $50,344 for rebuilding and refinishing the buildings recently…
Various (1971)
…Brennan's finds at the Twombly Landing site, on the lower Hudson, in Palisades Park, New Jersey, if confirmed by additional discoveries, suggest the presence of "small stemmed point" users in that area around 2800 B.C. (Brennan 1967: 10…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…Ezra Cornell was, moreover, a
native of this county, having been born at Westchester Landing. He
was the father of Governor Alonzo B. Cornell. The beginning of the gigantic Croton Aqueduct enterprise dates
from about the same time as the…
Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886.
…make any attempt to
effect a landing, anywhere.*
On the twenty-sixth of July, the ships were said to
have drop[)ed down the river, still further," probably
to the mouth of the Croton-ri ver ; * and it is very…
Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard.
…Williams, pointing to a small oval table near her, " is the very
table at which that good man asked a blessing."
From the little village of Croton, or Collaberg Landing, I rode to the
dwelling of a friend (James Cockroft…
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…The Village of Croton-on-Hudson thus evolved as an enclave of the Van Cortlandt Manor. Originally known as Croton Landing, its early Dutch residents were involved with agriculture and trade. A 1718 census counted 91 inhabitants in the Manor…
comprehensive_plan_2003_raw.txt
…The Village of Croton-on-Hudson thus evolved as an enclave of the Van Cortlandt Manor. Originally known as Croton Landing, its early Dutch residents were involved with agriculture and trade. A 1718 census counted 91 inhabitants in the Manor…
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 20, 1900: "TWENTY-SIX ARRESTS. Military Authorities Busy in Vicinity of Strike. CROTON VALLEY'S LIVELY DAY. Sheriff Molloy Secures Thirty-Two Warrants—Houses Searched For Ammunition—Italians Quieter and Many Leaving Their Homes to Avoid Trouble." Public-domain newspaper dispatch from Croton Landing covering the mass-arrest operation that broke the 1900 New Croton Dam strike. Transcribed verbatim by Jeff Paine at https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2023/01/twenty-six-striking-dam-workers.html
The other 19 were marched into the Croton Landing depot, where they boarded a special train for Tarrytown, whence they were taken by trolley and lodged in the jail at White Plains, where they will have an examination today. They…
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903.
…Fishkill Landing 283
Under cliff -- TJu^ Home of the Poet .]h->rris . From an old print. The River Road, near Coldeuham
Where the Brooks }h^t -Pilewild . 299
View South from Sing Sing, about iS4(S 2gi
Croton and Verplanck…
Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900.
…On the
11th of October, he says, fourteen British seamen were taken prisonTeller's (Croton) Point by Captain Hallet's company of New
Yorkers atmilitia. From the time of the landing of the British expedition below Verplanck's Point on…