![]() He also had a cider mill and made some of the best cider in the county. John Brown had a boatyard and built fine yachts in 1890 near the Main Street Landings. The Cooper Flour Mill opened a five story building in 1886 and refined 300 barrels of flour a day. moved his silk factory from New Jersey and began manufacturing silk braids and other goods at the corner of Main Street and Depot Plaza in 1881. They produced "high end" footwear and employed 150 workers. An early leading industry was the Silver Shoe Factory on Washington Street opened by the Silver brothers in 1871. ![]() ![]() In 1868 a wagon and carriage factory was opened on Orchard Street. Gradually a few industries began to appear. However, there were a small number of farms in Tarrytown that grew mostly wheat, and there were a few taverns and shops. Throughout the 18th century most of life continued to revolve around the mill. The main home and gristmill have been restored to appear as it did in the mid-18th century and is currently a historic restoration that may be visited, and is under the auspices of Historic Hudson Valley. He doubled the size of the original home and increased the capacity of the mill by adding a third set of millstones so that he could grind barley and corn as well as his wheat. When Frederick died in 1702, his son Adolph became "Lord of the Manor". Frederick Philipse was also responsible for building The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in 1685. This was his main distribution center for grain on the Hudson. He acquired 90,000 acres and built his main home and gristmill in our sister town of Sleepy Hollow. He controlled 22 miles of land from the Croton River, south to Spuyten Duyvil, and from the Hudson, east to the Bronx River. Our local high school is named Sleepy Hollow High School, and our local team is named the Horsemen.Ī great deal of our history began when Frederick Philipse, a wealthy businessman, began buying land in 1681 and became the largest land- owner in the Tarrytown area. There have been countless references, and movies made about his famous story. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent county, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days." Washington Irving has had the distinction of being the first American writer who was recognized by the British and European community. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port which by some is called Greenburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. Irving began his story, "In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators of the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. However, I prefer Washington Irving's interpretation of the origin of Tarrytown's name, in "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" which was published in the Sketch Book in 1820. This led to the area being known as Wheat Town, or Terve Town, which later became mispronounced as Tarrytown. Tarrytown soil was light and loamy which was ideal for growing cereals especially wheat. The first white settlers were Dutch and that they were farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen. Records show that the first residence in Tarrytown was built in 1645 however, the exact location is not known. Their principle settlement was at the foot of Church Street at place they called Alipconk,or the Place of Elms. ![]() They also trapped for fur and hides for clothing, and later traded these with the Dutch. They hunted the area for deer and black bear. They fished the Hudson for shad, oysters and other shellfish. ![]() They raised corn, squash, beans, and tobacco. The Weckquasgeeks were a friendly tribe that were closely related to the Wappinger Confederacy and further related to the Mohicans. The first residents of what eventually became Tarrytown were the Weckquaesgeeks Indians. It is a village of rolling hills, twenty-five miles north of New York City. Situated on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, in an area called the Tappan Zee, (Tappan for the Tappan Indians who once lived in what is now Rockland County, and Zee meaning sea in the Dutch language), lies the village of Tarrytown, a village rich in history and of course, local legend. ![]()
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