Identifier: trolleyexploring00chil (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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er in thosedays. In the Livingston Mansion Washington met Rochambeauin 1781, and there planned the campaign of Yorktown. In May,1783, under this same roof, the papers were signed that re-nounced all claims of England to America. Two days later, outin the Hudson just opposite, a British sloop of war fired 17 gunsin honor of General Washington, the American commander. The old house is still in a fine state of preservation. ROUTE 41. Mount Vernon to Tuckathoe, throughBronxville. A short line from Movmt Vernon up in the hills to the north,through Bronxville, 17 minutes, 5 cents; connections to Yonkers,via Nepperharv, and to White Plains. (See Rovite 42A.) ROUTE 42. Mount Vernon to Ea^st Chester a^ndInverness. A short line that makes trolley entry possible into the very oldtown of East Chester. East Chester has its old church, built in 1764 to replace one erected1698 and destroyed by fire. When General Howe marched on toWhite Plains he left bis wounded in this church, 60 Trolley Exploring.
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OLD MILL, TARRYTOWN, N. Y,, DATING BACK TO COLONIAL TIMES. R.OUTE 42A. Mount Vernon and New R.ochelle toWhite Plains, through Nepperhan, ParsonsCorners, Tuckahoe, Scarsdale, Hartsdale. Ten miles up in the hills from each of the two first points, an hoursrun, fare 10 cents. The cars from New R-ochell© transfer atParsons Corners to the cars from White Plains. A fine newline, in process of construction for several years. It passes, afterabout five miles, into a region of the fashionables, and fine countryplaces—Scarsdale. The new short route to Tarry town. Upper Westchester. 61 R.OUTE 43. Mount Vernon to PelhaLm, to NewRochelle, to Larchmont, to Maimairo-neck. Here there is a. choice of tworoutes, one to Tatrrytown, the other tothe East on the way to Boston. Theformer leads over the Westchester hills,through White Plains and Elmsford, intoTarrytown, with connections by trainat the latter point to Irvington and DobbsFerry — train to Hastings and thencevia Yonkers to either Mount Vern

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