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Title: Health and pleasure on America's greatest railroad..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Co
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Publisher: Buffalo
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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three hundred feet and effectually estopping the traveler from a view of thecountry beyond. Past field and wood, past hill and dale teeming with historicmemories dating from Aboriginal, Colonial, and Revolutionary days, the train isswiftly whirled. The wooded hills upon the right are thickly dotted with themagnificent summer homesof the social and commercialmagnates of the metropolis. RIVERDALE. A moment after leavingSpuyten Duyvil Creek wepass the little town of River-dale, one of the handsomestsuburbs of New York, con-taining many elegant resi-dences. MT. ST. VINCENT. A little further on is MountSt. Vincent, where is locatedan extensive Roman Catholicconvent school for girls, fa-mous for the excellence ofits educational system. Thelarge gray stone castle atMount St. Vincent was for-merly the residence of EdwinForrest, the tragedian, butnow belongs to the convent,having been sold by him tothe Sisters of Charity, underwhose management St. Vin-cent is Conducted. Becalmed on the Hudson.
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NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER R. R. 23 About two miles above Mount St. Vincent, seventeen miles from New York, is Yonkers, beautifully situated on villa-crowned slopes at the mouth of the Nep- perhan or Saw 3011 River. It has a population of aboutYONKERS. 30,000, and contains several fine churches, excellent hotels and many elegant residences. It has gas, water-works, and a police depart-ment, the latter being connected by telegraph with police head-quarters inNew York City. Many important manufacturing establishments are locatedhere, among them being mower and reaper works, silk, carpet, and hat factories,machine and elevator works, and the shops of the Eagle Pencil Company.Yonkers is an ancient settlement, and was the home of Mary Phillipse, the firstlove of George Washington. The manor of Colendock, comprising 2,400 acres,and in colonial days the property of Patroon Van der Donck, was the original siteof this flourishing city. Hastings, most romantically situated, is a thrivi

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