WHITE PLAINS 



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WHITE RIVER 



where Mount Lafayette lifts its bold summit 

 5,270 feet above the 8ea, and Profile, Liberty 

 and Moosilaukee mountains exceed 4,000 feet 

 in altitude. In the edge of the perpendicular 

 cliffs of Profile Mountain, 1,500 feet above the 

 road, Nature has carved a magnificent human 

 profile, ninety feet in length. It is known as 

 the "Old Man of the Mountain," and is said 



"OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN" 

 The pi< tun- In the oval presents a closer view 

 of the projecting edge of the mountain. 



to have inspired Hawthorne's beautiful alle- 

 gory, The Great Stone Face. Other features 

 of beauty and int. n -i m< l-ilr the many lakes 

 embosomed in the mountains, bleak Chocorua 

 peak which, bare of vrn ttxm, resembles a 

 rocky fortress, or tower, and Fronconia Flumr. 

 the great fissure cut by tin - \\-ift Pcmigewasset. 



These mountains have become a nn -:it MIIU- 

 iiii-r playground. Tin ir slopes and summits are 

 encircled by splendid roads and paths. Ti 

 forests are no l<im T a wilderness, but arc the 

 site of summer camps and hotels. K.H.I-. 



WHITE PLAINS, N V . the county seat of 

 Westchester County, is situ.ittd t \vmty-t w<> 

 null's northra.st of New York City, cm tin- 

 Bronx Ri\ < i and on a branch of i 



Central Railroad. There is interurban service 

 to neighboring cities. The population was 15,- 

 949 in 1910; in 1916 it was 22,465 (Federal esti- 

 mate). The area is about four square miles. 

 Prominent features of the city are a $600,000 

 courthouse, a Carnegie Library, a V M. C. A. 

 building and the state armory; the latter was 

 built on the site of the old courthouse where, 

 on July 10, 1776, the provincial congress pro- 

 claimed the independent state of New York. 

 A large park and playground costing $200,000 

 have been constructed by the Bronx Parkway 

 Commission. The city has the Bloomingdale 

 Asylum for the Insane, and there are other 

 hospitals. White Plains was settled in 1683. It 

 was incorporated as a town in 1788 and became 

 a city in 1916. In 1776 it was the scene of the 

 Battle of White Plains, or Chatterton Hill. 



Battle of White Plains. This engagement 

 occurred early in the Revolutionary War, on 

 October 28, 1776. Washington had evacuated 

 Manhattan Island, and had brought the greater 

 part of his forces to White Plains on the 23rd. 

 Five days later General Howe sent a force of 

 4,000 men to attack the American outpost of 

 1,400, stationed on Chatterton Hill, on the 

 west side of the Bronx River. After a spirited 

 engagement the Americans withdrew to the 

 main camp, losing about 140 men. Later 

 Washington took up a strong position at North 

 Castle. 



WHITE RIVER, a river of Arkansas, which 

 rises in the Ozark Mountains, flows northeast 

 into Missouri, reenters Arkansas and flows 

 southeast, principally through marshes, to join 

 the Mississippi fourteen miles above ihr mouth 

 of the Arkansas. Its length is 800 miles, and it 

 is navigable by a system of locks and dams 

 for 100 miles above Batesville altogether 

 about 480 miles. Batesville, Clarendon and 

 Newport, manufacturing centers, are the princi- 

 pal towns on its banks. 



WHITE RIVER, thr chief Indiana tributary 

 of the Wabash. fonm <! by thr union <>f tin- 

 East and West forks, which flow in a general 

 westerly direction from near thr eastern state 

 boundary. These hradst reams unite near 

 Petersburg. Thr main rm -r flows southwest- 

 erly from thr point of junction for a distance 

 of fifty miles, and rmptirs into thr Wabash 

 :nt Cannel. Ill Including thr West 

 Fork, the White Km -r is about 350 miles in 

 IniKth. Indi.inapoli*. the capital and largest 

 thr West Fork, as are 



Noblesvil! devoted largely to grain in- 



dustries, Anderson, a railroad center, and Mar- 



