History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . stry. Seldom does it fall to the happy lot of parents to seeevery member of their large family pursuing livesthat reflect lustre upon the family name. Seldom dochildren enjoy the blessing, in so eminent a degree,of a parentage so worthy of imitation, so much anhonor and a moral support to them in life. Not farfrom the railroad station of Croton is the manufactoryof brick machinery of W. F. Tallcot & Co., establishedin 187!), and employing an average of five


History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . stry. Seldom does it fall to the happy lot of parents to seeevery member of their large family pursuing livesthat reflect lustre upon the family name. Seldom dochildren enjoy the blessing, in so eminent a degree,of a parentage so worthy of imitation, so much anhonor and a moral support to them in life. Not farfrom the railroad station of Croton is the manufactoryof brick machinery of W. F. Tallcot & Co., establishedin 187!), and employing an average of five hands. On the top of the hill is the district school, a two-story brick building, in which (in ISS:!) the averagenumber of pupils in attendance, daily, was seventy-twoand the number of teachers employed two. The house of Miss Susan McCord, a short distancesouth of the school-house, on the opposite side of thestreet, was formerly an inn and the stopping-place ofthe New York and Albany stages. North of the village is locate 1 Hessian Hill, socalled from the fact that a Hessian encampment was lo-cated there in Revolutionary


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