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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rchmont acar can be taken into Greenwich, 12^ miles further, 15 cents.From Larchmont Line the car at once makes for Mamaroneck,3^ miles, 5 cents of the 15. A branch line runs down to theshore—Larchmont Manor, Upper Westchester, 63 In Larchmont, a country town that has an ideal system of selfgovernment, there is the famous Larchmont Yacht Club, withits splendid lawns upon the water front, its fine club house andharbor, and the Larchmont Fire Department, a band of amateurswho are in great part from the best families and have been trainedinto almost the skill of professional firemen. TO MAMAFLONECK, R.YE, POR.TCHESTER.,GREENWICH AND COS COB. Mamaroneck was another Tory headquarters in the old daysbefore American Independence was finally declared, and GeneralHowe in his Westchester campaigns camped on Heathcote Hillthere, not far from where the old Delancey mansion now stands.In the Indian language the name means, the place of rollingstones.1 J. Fenimore Cooper once lived in Mamaroneck.
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WASHINGTON MONUMENT AND THE LIVINGSTON MANSION AT DOBBS FERRY-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. Courtesy of New York Central <£ Hudson River Railroad 64 Trolley Exploring, From this town the road to White Plains and Tarrytownbranches off over the hills. From N&m&roneck in Port-chester, through Rye is 30 minutes in time and 6 miles. Nowthe country begins to grow even more beautiful. To the westthere are hills, and exquisite country houses, to the east the shore of which glimpses begin to be caught. At Rye there is a branch running down to Rye Beach which is being built up into a popular summer resort to rival Ulmer Park, Long Island. Free transfers are issued to this from the mainline. Rye was much over-run in the Revolution by guerrilla bands, and there were conflicts in old Rye village. The points, islandsand coves along the Sound from Mamaroneck are Mill Creek, Hen Island, Rye Neck, Rye Point, ParsonagePoint, Manursing Islands. The trolley road goes fairly close to theSound in this district, and

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