HISTORY & MYSTERIES
Postcard showing the view from Sunshine Terrace. The land jutting out into the Hudson from the left is the northern tip of Croton Point. Text on the back reads: Ann Robinson's Sunshine Terrace Rest—Sunshine—Diet 120 Old Post North Croton-on-Hudson, New York Telephone Croton 1-3695
A postcard circa 1909 of the Old Post Road Inn in Croton.
A Map of Property of Phillip C. Van Wyck Esq., surveyed by Thomas C. Cornell in August 1850. Below is a detail showing the Quaker meeting house and cemetery that was along what is now Grand Street, between South Mt. Airy Road and Church Street. The land was purchased in 1797 by Robert Underhill and … Continue reading Van Wyck Property Map, 1850
"View down Hudson from Hessian Hills Farm, summer home F.A.P. Gardiner at Croton on Hudson."
This manuscript map (meaning a hand-drawn map, rather than one which is printed) was made when the French army was camped in northern Westchester in 1782. It records in exquisite detail the roads, bridges, settlements and more between Croton in the southwest, Peekskill in the north and Yorktown in the northeast. The map is in … Continue reading Position des Armées Amériquaine et Françoise, 1782
Detail from William Wade’s 1845 Panorama of the Hudson River. Courtesy of the Westchester Historical Society.
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