WESTCHESTER COUNTY 

 Westchester County Lies in the southeastern part of the state, 

 the Hudson River forming its western boundary and the state of 

 Connecticut and Long Island Sound lying to the oast. Its area is 

 286,720 acres; its length from north to south is approximately 

 30 miles and from easl to west 22 miles in the widest part. The 

 population is distributed as follows: 



Mount Vernon ( city ) . . 

 New Rorhelle (city) . . 

 White Plains (city)*. 



Yonkers (city) 



Bedford 



Cortlandt 



Eastchester 



Greenburgh 



Harrison 



Lcwisboro 



Mamaroneck 



Mount Pleasant 



Newcastle 



POPULATION BY ClTIES AND TOWNSHIPS 

 (Census of 1915) 

 37,583 N'.rth Castle 



31,758 



19,287 



90,948 

 5,S06 



22 . 790 

 7,55S 



26,129 

 5,081 

 1,507 

 7,830 



12,976 

 4,401 



North Salem 

 Ossining .... 



Pelham 



Poundridge . 



Rye 



Scarsdale . . . 



Somers 



White Plains 

 Yorktown . . . 



Total 



2,484 

 1,181 



12,181 



3,782 



643 



24, 130 

 2,717 

 1,173 



16,61.3 

 2,431 



321,713 



*The city of White Plains is the county seat. 



Note: Population of cities at present is as follows: Mount Vernon, 42.700; 

 New Rochelle, 36,000; White Plains, 21,000; Yonkers, 100,000. 



HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS 



This county, constituting one of the original divisions of the 

 state under the English rule, was organized in 1683. Portions of 

 the southern end of the county wore annexed to Xew York County 

 in 1S73 and 1895. Its name recalls the old city of Chester. Eng- 

 land. When first known to the whites this section was occupied by 

 the Mohicans, known in early documents as "River" Indians. 



lr is a well-accepted fact that the first purchase of land from the 

 Indians in New York was made by the Dutch West India Com- 

 pany in what is now Westchester County previous to 1639. \Yhen 

 this company invited settlers to New Netherlands a number of 

 Walloons (inhabitants of the northern Xetherland provinces | 

 took advantage of the offer and became the first tillers of the soil 



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