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- The Twenties saw a building boom that tripled the population by the end of the decade to 9,690. The Bronx River Parkway, the first parkway in the country, was opened in 1924. New stores and banks opened on East Parkway and Popham Roads. Fox Meadow and Crane-Berkley were developed.
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History of Scarsdale. The town of Scarsdale (meaning rocky, craggy valley) was carved out of the pre-colonial manor belonging to Caleb Heathcote in 1788. Scarsdale's six-and-a-half square miles was home to only 281 people in 1790, a third of whom were Quakers living in the eastern section of town.
Mar 4, 2024 · Discover the origins of the Heathcote neighborhood and the abandoned remains of the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway (NYW&B) that had stations throughout Westchester including Heathcote Station at Five Corners in Scarsdale.
The Tudor-style village center, a hallmark of Scarsdale, stands as a testament to the early 20th-century architectural movement that sought to create harmonious, community-centric spaces. This center, with its ornate facades and gabled roofs, is not just a visual treat but a historical narrative in brick and mortar.
Explore Scarsdale’s rich history on topics ranging from the pre-colonial era to the civil rights movement.
May 13, 1984 · ''This is the kind of information that we could not get out of documents and that is really crucial to our understanding of how Scarsdale changed in the late 19th century and what it was...
Indeed, Scarsdale is, what one observer has called, "a sort of utopia"--a capitalistic version of the ideal community. In this clear and well-written study, Professor Carol O'Connor explains...
Caleb Heathcote purchased land that would become Scarsdale at the end of the 17th century and, on March 21, 1701, had it elevated to a royal manor. He named the lands after his ancestral home in Derbyshire , England.
