THE TOWN OF BEDFORD. 8 1 



Presbyterian, Rail Road and Telegraph station, Post Office and several 

 stores. 



The Methodist Episcopal church which is a new edifice, was erected 

 in 1878, and was incorporated on the 25th of January, 1837; Norman 

 William Miller, Walter P. Lyon, Joseph Wilson, Joel W. Miller and 

 Noah Smith, Trustees." 



The Peppeneghek and the Cisqua intersect a mile to the eastward. 

 Previous to the erection of the Croton dam, the shad fish annually as- 

 cended the river to Katonah or Wittlockville, a distance of nearly thirty 

 miles from the Hudson ; trout are taken here in great abundance. The 

 several tributaries of the Kitchawan or Croton in this town supply a 

 great abundance of mill seats. There is also a small stream that runs 

 north from the village of Bedford to Long Island Sound (to which we 

 have already alluded) called Myanos River. The mills are numerous 

 and more than equal to the wants of the inhabitants. The general sur- 

 face of Bedford is elevated, though broken by small hills, and valleys, has 

 very little of waste ground. .The arable, pasture, and meadow lands, are 

 in very just proportion for a good farming country, and the whole is well 

 watered by springs, brooks, and rivulets, the latter of a good size for 

 mills; the summits of the hills afford many extensive and interesting pros- 

 pects, but the hills are stony and hard to till, though they yield good 

 crops of grain, grass, and all the common fruits." 



In the vicinity of Bedford sulphuret of iron, and the oxide of iron 

 occur in beds of sand, also quartz, and slate are found in numerous 

 localities. 



a Eeligious Soc. Lib. B. 69. 



