. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . me will come when pilgrimages will be made to this an-cient beautiful home of some of those ideals and habits of life whichhave given form and structure to American civilization.—HamiltonWright Mabie. During the War of Independence, Tarrytown was thescene of numerous conflicts between the cowboys and skin-ners, bands of unorganized partisans who carried on a kindof guerilla warfare, the former ac
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . me will come when pilgrimages will be made to this an-cient beautiful home of some of those ideals and habits of life whichhave given form and structure to American civilization.—HamiltonWright Mabie. During the War of Independence, Tarrytown was thescene of numerous conflicts between the cowboys and skin-ners, bands of unorganized partisans who carried on a kindof guerilla warfare, the former acting in the interest of thecolonists, and the latter in that of the king. On the old postroad on Sept. 24, 1780, Maj. Andre was captured by threeContinentals, John Paulding, David Williams, and Isaac vanWart. The spot where Andre was captured is now markedwith a monument—a marble shaft surmounted by a statue ofa Continental soldier. Tarrytown lies principally along either side of a broad and wind-ing highway, laid out in 1723, from N. Y. C. to Albany. It was calledthe Kings Highway till the War of Independence, then called AlbanyPost Road, and the section of it in Tarrytown is known now as. Old Mill at Tarrytown Built in 1686The Manor House, the Old Church and the Mill were erected by FrederickPhilipse, the lord of several thousand acres, in what is now Westchester mill, much dilapidated, still exists. NEW YORK TO ALBANY 23 Broadway. The delights of traveling in the days when the road wasfirst laid out are suggested in the following description: The coachwas without springs, and the seats were hard, and often horses were jaded and worn, the roads were rough with bouldersand stumps of trees, or furrowed with ruts and quagmires. Thejourney was usually begun at 3 oclock in the morning, and after18 hours of jogging over the rough roads the weary traveler wasput down at a country inn whose bed and board were such as towin little praise. Long before daybre
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