CROTON LANDING IN THE 1870'S, BRICK MAKERS STRIKE, SAMUEL SINCLAIR AND VAN CORTLANDT MANOR MUSINGS

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For your Saturday enjoyment, some miscellaneous items from CROTON LANDING in the 1870's. Courtesy of the Everything Croton elves. There's a brick makers strike, Samuel Sinclair of the Herald Tribune, an excerpt from Appleton's about Van Cortlandt Manor---Colonel Brant, the Mohawk Chief, and the documentation that Washington, Lafayette, Dr. Franklin, early Methodist preachers and other notables of the day were frequent visitors there.

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