HISTORY & MYSTERIES
Nikko Inn (aka "The Japanese Tea House") back in the early days when real estate developer Clifford B. Harmon was modestly advertising his new community as “HARMON, the New City on the Hudson—the most important and extensive suburban development in the history of New York.”
An ad for the United States Brick & Enameling Company at Croton Point, from Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide (v. 34, no. 851: July 5, 1884)
A detail from Colton's driving & wheeling map of the country twenty-five miles north of the city of New York. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. 312 Broadway, New York, 1892. A note in red above the title says: "These maps are particularly intended for the use of Sportsmen, Wheelmen, and Driving Parties, and we respectfully … Continue reading Croton Area “Driving & Wheeling” Map, 1892
A detail from an early New York City regional transit map, made between 1887 and the 1890s. What's particularly interesting about this map is that it shows the "Quaker Bridge Dam," one of the possible locations for what became the New Croton Dam. In the late 19th century, when New York City was rapidly outgrowing … Continue reading Croton Area in an Early NYC Transit Map, 1887-1890s
Detail of the Croton area from Fowler's New Map of the Hudson River, 1845.
Details from a multi-page Map of the Hudson River, published by Rand McNally. This map may have been issued separately, but the copy used here was inserted in the book The Hudson River, from Ocean to Source by Edgar Mayhew Bacon, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. The Bacon book is available online from Open … Continue reading Croton Area, circa 1900
A wood engraving of Croton Point and the west bank of the Hudson River from Art Journal, 1875.
Details of the Croton Area from Julius Bien's Atlas of the Metropolitan District and adjacent country comprising the counties of New York, Kings, Richmond, Westchester . . . Published by Julius Bien & Co. New York. 1891.
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