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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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nts. Here are the leastknown of New Yorks newparks, those of the water-front, and a shore line thatis yet rural and untouched.Gradually the old countryhomes have gone from thisregion, but much that isquaint remains. City Isl-and, reached by a horserailroad line all its own from Bartow, running to Belden Point onCity Islands furthest end (3 miles, 10 cents, making no connectionswith other lines), is probably farther back in the past in its lifeand character than any other district in or about New York. Almost every inch of this ground has its story of Americanhistory. This is truly Revolutionary and Historic Westchester.Here, during the Revolution, was a hotbed of Tories, organizedunder the name of the Tory Westchester Light Horse.1 ColonelDe Lancey headed this troop. Westchester Creek was the centreof many a conflict. These were the the Cowboys of history. Thomas Pell was the first lord of the manor for all this region.He bought, in 1634, 10,000 acres (extending up to the New Rochelle
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LIGHTHOUSE ON NORTH SHORE OF LONGISLAND SOUND. 56 Trolley Exploring. boundary) from the Siwanoy Indians, paying trinkets for them.Later English from Connecticut settled about here, and were atcoustant odds with the Dutch of New Amsterdam. Fort Schuyler, one of the chief of the Sound fortificationsinto New York, with always an interesting garrison on its reser-vation, lies at the very end of Throgs Neck (named by theIndians Quinshung11). Quinshung was settled in 1642 by JohnThrogmorton who came here with thirty-five Baptist familiesunder the leadership of Roger Williams, from Rhode Island andthe Providence Plantations. The Westchester Country Club, oneof the most beautiful about New York, has its location just tothe north at Schuylerville. Out in the Sound from here areHa^rt and City Islands. City Island is said to have been the place where oyster culturein America first commenced. It is also where for years nowmany of the Cup Defenders of international yachting have beenlaid up high a

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