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Things to do in<br />
Westchester County<br />
Tarrytown Lighthouse<br />
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland<br />
Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a<br />
sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of<br />
the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York,<br />
United States. It a conical steel structure<br />
erected in the 1880s. In 1979 it was listed on<br />
the National Register of Historic Places.<br />
The need for a lighthouse to warn ships away<br />
from the shoals near the common route off<br />
Tarrytown and Ossining had been obvious<br />
by the mid-19th century. But high land values<br />
at two favored locations led the federal<br />
government to instead build it a 1/2 mile<br />
(0.80 km) offshore. It was the only family station<br />
on the lower Hudson, the only conical<br />
steel lighthouse on the Hudson to have living<br />
quarters within it rather than attached, and<br />
the only lighthouse in Westchester County. It<br />
remained in use until the mid-20th century;<br />
the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge<br />
on the shoals where it stood, and the development<br />
of the General Motors Tarrytown<br />
Truck Assembly plant on land reclaimed<br />
from the river to its east, made the light obsolete.<br />
Today it is part of a county park, and<br />
tours are available.<br />
The lighthouse is situated just off the riverbank<br />
at the southern end of Kingsland Point<br />
Park. A 100-foot pedestrian bridge and riprap<br />
breakwater connects it to the shore. To<br />
its immediate east is a large vacant area,<br />
once the site of the General Motors North<br />
Tarrytown Assembly plant. Between it and<br />
the developed sections of Tarrytown are the<br />
tracks used by Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson<br />
Line, Amtrak’s Empire Service and CSX<br />
freight. The three-mile–long Tappan Zee<br />
Bridge carries the New York State Thruway<br />
across the river a mile to the south. Navigational<br />
aids had been part of travel on the<br />
river since before Europeans had arrived,<br />
and the hazardous shoals near the Tarrytowns<br />
had long been known. But even after<br />
the growth in commerce fueled by industrialization<br />
during the 19th century, it took a<br />
considerable amount of time to find a site<br />
for the lighthouse. It remained in service until<br />
the Tappan Zee Bridge’s construction made<br />
it redundant; since then expansion of the<br />
shoreline has also ended its isolation.<br />
The building itself is a five-story conical<br />
structure on a foundation of a stone pier<br />
and cast iron caisson that holds a concrete<br />
cylinder which accounts for half the light-<br />
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Did you know Martial Arts can<br />
positively contribute to a<br />
child’s confidence?<br />
My name is Adam McCauley, and it’s an<br />
honor to be part of Our Towns Finest publication.<br />
I’ve been working with children for over<br />
30 years helping them build better bodies &<br />
stronger minds through the Martial Arts. It is<br />
been my experience that training in Karate<br />
is much more than learning how to kick and<br />
punch. The training a child gets helps them in<br />
many more ways than just the physical selfprotection<br />
strategies learned.<br />
If you allow me to share with you some important<br />
traits children learn at my school, I’m<br />
sure you’ll get a different perspective about<br />
the Martial Arts. At the core of the Go No Sen<br />
Karate program students are encouraged<br />
to perform their very best - on an individual<br />
basis. By experiencing their own level of<br />
success, without the pressure of comparing<br />
themselves to others, the students slowly build<br />
their self-esteem and continue to challenge<br />
themselves to perform better each time.<br />
Students learn crucial life skills which can then<br />
be used in life and school. Students enrolled<br />
in our quality Martial Arts program:<br />
• Learn to Think for Themselves - When<br />
a child learns to develop their own critical<br />
thinking skills they are also learning to<br />
become an active participant of society<br />
and are better positioned to make<br />
clear choices. Critical thinking is often<br />
over-looked in schools despite its importance.<br />
Martial Arts training encourages<br />
students to be aware of their thinking as<br />
they perform certain tasks. They then use<br />
this awareness as a way to perform better.<br />
By critically thinking through exercises<br />
and activities students increase their<br />
confidence and their skills.<br />
• Learn How to Process Practical Knowledge<br />
- Martial Arts training applies practical<br />
experience and guides students with<br />
the knowledge of specific techniques<br />
that will become part of their continued<br />
Martial Arts trainings. Through the learning<br />
of these techniques the student becomes<br />
more confident in their abilities.<br />
They learn to appreciate the value of<br />
practicing and understand that in order<br />
to fully develop, they need to invest in<br />
their knowledge.<br />
• Benefit From the Direction of Skilled<br />
Mentors - Not only do the Martial Arts instructors<br />
here at Go No Sen Karate provide<br />
demonstrations of key techniques,<br />
the instructors also serve as positive role<br />
models to young, impressionable children.<br />
The instructors directly and indirectly<br />
model confidence and positive<br />
behavior traits to the students while also<br />
encouraging a mutual level of respect<br />
and friendship. Often, our instructors<br />
share personal experiences from their<br />
past with the students as a way to<br />
teach and deliver key messages.<br />
• Succeed and Learn From Their Mistakes<br />
- Both successes and mistakes<br />
are an important part of our Martial<br />
Arts experience. In the same way<br />
that a child learns from their mistakes<br />
in school or in life, mistakes in Martial<br />
Arts are looked at as a way to learn,<br />
try again and move closer to the end<br />
goal and a personal level of success.<br />
• Develop Personal Strengths - The<br />
pressures faced by young children<br />
while in school and their community<br />
can be intense. Martial Arts encourages<br />
students to do their best while<br />
also focusing on those areas in which<br />
they excel. By doing this, children develop<br />
a greater sense of confidence<br />
and this confidence stays with them<br />
as they grow and mature.<br />
I’m sure you agree that when a child learns<br />
how to stand for something, they won’t fall<br />
for anything! It has been my mission for the<br />
last 30 years to instill in children a desire<br />
to learn and succeed inside and outside<br />
the Martial Arts school. I encourage every<br />
parent to bring their child in so you can experience<br />
the transformations I have seen<br />
first-hand.<br />
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The Thomas Paine Cottage<br />
The Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle,<br />
New York in the United States, was the home<br />
from 1802 to 1806 of Thomas Paine, author of<br />
Common Sense and Revolutionary War hero.<br />
Paine was buried near the cottage from his<br />
death in 1809 until his body was disinterred in<br />
1819. It was one of a number of buildings located<br />
on the 300 acre farm given to Paine by<br />
the State of New York in 1784, in recognition<br />
of his services in the cause of Independence.<br />
It was here in August 1805 that he wrote his<br />
last pamphlet, which was addressed to the<br />
citizens of Philadelphia on “Constitutional Reform”.<br />
The cottage has been owned by the “New<br />
Rochelle and Huguenot Historical Association”<br />
and has been operated as a historic<br />
house museum since 1910. The cottage is<br />
open to the public five days a week. There<br />
are several weekend events scheduled at the<br />
cottage throughout the year. In addition, the<br />
cottage hosts many local school field trips. It<br />
had 3,000 visitors in 2002.<br />
The cottage is a two-story wood-frame saltbox<br />
structure. It began as a simple building<br />
16 feet wide and 31 feet deep. In 1804, an<br />
additional 18 by 23 feet wing with a porch<br />
was constructed. An exterior door and porch<br />
pillars in the Greek Revival style were added in<br />
about 1830. The main house has three rooms<br />
set one behind the other; the kitchen in front,<br />
a common room in the center and a bedroom<br />
in the rear. The wing to the right contains<br />
the parlor and there are four bedrooms<br />
on the second floor. The entrance door and<br />
the pillars of the porch on the wing are Greek<br />
Revival and were added about 1830. The<br />
current arrangement has rooms decorated<br />
in the late 18th and early 19th century style<br />
as well as exhibits pertaining to the history of<br />
New Rochelle, the local Siwanoy Indians, and<br />
the Huguenots.<br />
The front door to the cottage enters directly<br />
into its main room, which is maintained as the<br />
“Huguenot Room”. The desk is said to have<br />
belonged to Jacques Flandreau, an early Huguenot<br />
settler of the town. Over the desk is a<br />
steel engraving from the celebrated painting<br />
at Versailles showing King Henry IV of France<br />
(Henry of Navarre) entering Paris through the<br />
unfinished Porte-Neuve on the morning of<br />
March 22, 1594.<br />
The rear room on the first floor is known as<br />
the “Paine Room”. On Christmas Eve, 1805,<br />
a gun was fired into this room in an attempt<br />
on Paine’s life. He described the incident in<br />
a letter:<br />
“Whatever the gun was charged with passed<br />
through about three or four inches below the<br />
window making a hole large enough to (allow)<br />
a finger to go through -the muzzle must<br />
have been very near as the place is black<br />
with powder, and the glass of the window is<br />
shattered to pieces.”<br />
There are several interesting items in this<br />
room. There are two chairs used by Paine<br />
when he boarded at Bayeau’s Tavern, almost<br />
directly across North Avenue. Another item is<br />
the stove set in the chimney. It was presented<br />
by Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Paine, and<br />
is one of the few real Franklin stoves in existence.<br />
Still another item is a warming pan<br />
which belonged to Mrs. Sarah Bache (1774-<br />
1808), daughter of Benjamin Franklin and<br />
wife of Richard Bache who was postmastergeneral<br />
of the United States from 1776-1782.<br />
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house’s weight, securing it in the river bottom.<br />
It is faced in welded steel plates. The<br />
base is painted red, the tower white, and<br />
the lantern room is black. There are eight<br />
windows at alternating intervals on the second<br />
and third stories, eight portholes evenly<br />
spaced around the fourth story and glazed<br />
glass around the lantern room. A catwalk<br />
with a roof supported by iron columns encircles<br />
the first story and provides access to<br />
the main entrance. Two additional catwalks<br />
are located around the fifth floor and the<br />
lantern room, the latter with a decorative<br />
iron railing. A flagpole rises from the fifth-floor<br />
catwalk’s east side.<br />
Inside, the entrance leads to the main living<br />
area, an 18-foot-wide living room and<br />
kitchen. Above them, the second and third<br />
stories, both 15 feet wide, had bedrooms.<br />
The wall interiors are faced in brick to better<br />
insulate them. The fourth floor, currently<br />
empty, was divided between a bedroom<br />
and a workshop. Its ceiling has glass inserts<br />
to allow light from the lantern to filter down<br />
into it. From it a ladder leads up to the watch<br />
area and lantern room. The 1,000-pound<br />
fog bell remains there, but its works have<br />
been removed. In the cellar are the original<br />
coal shed and cistern. A central column<br />
carries the cables and 50-pound weight<br />
that rotate the lantern.<br />
Navigational aids had been part of travel<br />
on the river since before Europeans had<br />
arrived, and the hazardous shoals near the<br />
Tarrytowns had long been known. But even<br />
after the growth in commerce fueled by industrialization<br />
during the 19th century, it took<br />
a considerable amount of time to find a site<br />
for the lighthouse. It remained in service until<br />
the Tappan Zee Bridge’s construction made<br />
it redundant; since then expansion of the<br />
shoreline has also ended its isolation.<br />
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Caramoor Center for<br />
Music and the Arts<br />
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is a<br />
former estate near Katonah, New York, which is<br />
about 50 miles north of New York City. Presently,<br />
it is a live music venue featuring symphonic, opera,<br />
chamber, American roots, and jazz, performances<br />
along with the historic home. Both are<br />
legacies of the house’s original owners, Walter<br />
and Lucie Rosen. The Caramoor Summer Music<br />
Festival is held there every summer. It also runs<br />
educational programs, and can be rented for<br />
events such as weddings.<br />
The Rosens built the estate gradually during<br />
the 1930s, its main house an imitation Italian<br />
villa. Many pieces of the buildings were imported<br />
from various European countries. The<br />
informal musical performances they hosted<br />
evolved into the beginning of Caramoor’s<br />
current offerings in 1945, and their collection<br />
of Renaissance-era and Chinese artworks,<br />
some rare, is on display throughout the estate.<br />
Lucie Rosen later donated it to the private<br />
organization that runs it today. In 2001 it<br />
was listed on the National Register of Historic<br />
Places.<br />
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Kykuit - Rockefeller Estate<br />
Kykuit known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate,<br />
is a 40-room National Trust house in Westchester<br />
County, New York, built by order of oil tycoon,<br />
capitalist and Rockefeller family patriarch<br />
John D. Rockefeller. Conceived largely by his<br />
son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and enriched by the<br />
art collection of third-generation scion, Governor<br />
of New York and Vice President of the United<br />
States, Nelson Rockefeller, it has been home to<br />
four generations of the family.<br />
Kykuit, Dutch for “lookout”, is situated on the<br />
highest point in the hamlet of Pocantico Hills,<br />
overlooking the Hudson River at Tappan Zee. Located<br />
near Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, it has a<br />
view of the New York City skyline twenty-five miles<br />
to the south.<br />
One of America’s most famous private residences,<br />
Kykuit was designed originally as a<br />
steep-roofed three-story stone mansion by the<br />
architects Chester Holmes Aldrich and William<br />
Adams Delano. Aldrich was a distant relative<br />
of the younger Rockefeller’s wife, Abby Aldrich<br />
Rockefeller, who was involved as artistic consultant<br />
and in the interior design of the mansion.<br />
The elder Rockefeller had purchased land in the<br />
area as early as 1893 after his brother William<br />
had built a 204-room mansion, Rockwood Hall,<br />
in the area.<br />
The initial eclectic structure took six years to<br />
complete. Before being occupied it was substantially<br />
rebuilt in its present four-story Classical<br />
Revival Georgian form. Completed during 1913,<br />
it has two basement levels filled with interconnecting<br />
passageways and service tunnels. The<br />
home’s interiors were designed by Ogden Codman,<br />
Jr., and feature collections of Chinese and<br />
European ceramics, fine furnishings and 20thcentury<br />
art.<br />
It was designated a National Historic Landmark<br />
during 1976. During 1979, its occupant, Nelson<br />
Rockefeller, bequeathed upon his death his<br />
one-third interest in the estate to the National<br />
Trust for Historic Preservation. As a result, Kykuit is<br />
now open to the public for tours conducted by<br />
Historic Hudson <strong>Valley</strong>.<br />
The imposing structure, of local stone topped<br />
with the Rockefeller emblem, is located centrally<br />
in a 250 acres inner compound (referred to<br />
as “the Park”) within the larger Rockefeller family<br />
estate. This gated compound is guarded at all<br />
times. Save family residences, the rest of the estate<br />
(known as the open space) is open to the<br />
public for recreational purposes, as it always has<br />
been.<br />
Initially, landscaping of the grounds was given<br />
to the company of Frederick Law Olmsted,<br />
who had designed Manhattan’s Central Park.<br />
Rockefeller senior was unhappy with this work<br />
however and assumed control of the design<br />
himself, transplanting whole mature trees, designing<br />
lookouts and the several scenic winding<br />
roads. During 1906, the further design of Kykuit’s<br />
grounds was undertaken by the architect William<br />
Welles Bosworth, who designed the surrounding<br />
terraces and gardens with fountains, pavilions<br />
and classical sculpture. These gardens in the<br />
Beaux-Arts style are considered Bosworth’s best<br />
work in the United States, looking out over very<br />
fine views of the Hudson River. His original gardens<br />
still exist, with plantings carefully replaced<br />
over time, although his entrance forecourt was<br />
extended during 1913. The terraced gardens<br />
include a Morning Garden, Grand Staircase,<br />
Japanese Garden, Italian Garden, Japanesestyle<br />
brook, Japanese Tea-house, large Oceanus<br />
fountain, Temple of Aphrodite, loggia, and<br />
semicircular rose garden.<br />
Nelson transformed previously empty basement<br />
passages beneath the mansion that lead to a<br />
grotto into a major private art gallery containing<br />
paintings by Picasso, Chagall and Warhol,<br />
the latter two having visited the estate. Between<br />
1935 and the late 1970s more than 120 works<br />
of abstract, avant garde and modern sculpture<br />
were added to the gardens grounds from<br />
Nelson’s collection, including works by Picasso<br />
(‘Bathers’), Constantin Brâncusi, Karel Appel<br />
(‘Mouse on Table’), Jean Arp, Alexander Calder,<br />
Alberto Giacometti, Gaston Lachaise, Aristide<br />
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Maillol, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu<br />
Noguchi (‘Black Sun’), and David Smith.<br />
Kykuit was renovated and modernized during<br />
1995 by New Haven architect Herbert S. Newman<br />
and Partners. Included were major infrastructure<br />
changes enabling the estate to accommodate<br />
group tours of the first floor and art<br />
gallery, as were as a reconfiguration of third and<br />
fourth floor staff quarters into guest suites.<br />
The inner park area was opened to restricted<br />
conducted tours of the mansion and immediate<br />
surrounds during 1994, but remains occupied<br />
and controlled by the family by the Rockefeller<br />
Brothers Fund, which leased the area from<br />
the National Trust for Historic Preservation during<br />
1991 and serves as steward of what is referred<br />
to as “the historic area”.<br />
Public tours are conducted by Historic Hudson<br />
<strong>Valley</strong>, an organization established during 1951<br />
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. “to celebrate the<br />
region’s history, architecture, landscape, and<br />
material culture, advancing its importance and<br />
thereby assuring its preservation.” Shuttle vans<br />
run from a visitor center located at the Philipsburg<br />
<strong>Manor</strong> House on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow,<br />
New York.<br />
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Weston’s Devil’s Den<br />
The charcoal makers who once toiled<br />
in the vicinity believed a hoof-like mark<br />
made in a rock was the footprint of the<br />
devil, hence the Den’s name. But this<br />
Nature Conservancy property is really<br />
a place of beauty and ideal for family<br />
hikes. There are more than enough<br />
trails to trek and things to see in Fairfield<br />
County’s largest preserve, known formally<br />
as the Lucius Pond Ordway/Devil’s Den<br />
Preserve. The Den consists of more than<br />
1,756 acres containing some 20 miles of<br />
trails that wind through and over almost<br />
every kind of terrain typical to southwestern<br />
Connecticut. Maps as well as a selfguided<br />
tour booklet are available at the<br />
Pent Road parking area; all hikers should<br />
sign in for safety. The preserve is home to<br />
more than 500 types of trees and wildflowers<br />
and has red fox, bobcat, coyote,<br />
eastern copperhead, wood duck, ruffed<br />
grouse, pileated woodpecker and more<br />
than 140 other bird species. An estimated<br />
40,000 people visit the site each<br />
year; it’s part of the 70-mile Saugatuck<br />
<strong>Valley</strong> Trails System. The Den closes at<br />
times in the fall for hunting.<br />
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Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation<br />
Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation is a nonprofit nature preserve<br />
and environmental education center. The reservation<br />
includes an 1,000-acre nature preserve and education<br />
center located in the Westchester towns of <strong>Yorktown</strong>,<br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong>, and New Castle. About 25,000 people come<br />
each year to hike the preserve’s 15 miles of trails, attend<br />
an education program, visit the Nature Center, or tour<br />
“Wildflower Island”. Teatown’s educators offer adult, family<br />
and children’s programs to 20,000 participants annually,<br />
including nearly 6,000 schoolchildren and 700 summer<br />
camp students.<br />
Known by locals simply as “Teatown”, the organization<br />
works to conserve biodiversity, teach ecology and<br />
promote nature-friendly living. Located in the heart of<br />
the Lower Hudson <strong>Valley</strong>’s Hudson Highlands bioregion,<br />
Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> Reservation’s mission is to conserve open<br />
space, educate citizens about the environment, and involve<br />
the public in order to sustain the diversity of wildlife,<br />
plants and habitats for future generations.<br />
Teatown conducts two annual celebrations that are open<br />
to the public: the Hudson River EagleFest and the Plant<br />
Sale. The EagleFest takes place in February each year,<br />
when winter conditions make eagles easier to spot as<br />
they search for prey on the Hudson River. The EagleFest<br />
offers visitors live raptor demonstrations in tents at Westchester<br />
County’s Croton Point Park. Short bus tours from<br />
Croton Point that take visitors to local eagle spotting sights<br />
up and down the lower Hudson <strong>Valley</strong> require reservations.<br />
Guides with scopes are located at the bus stops<br />
along the tour as well as at the Croton Point. About 2,500<br />
visitors took part in EagleFest 2008, and about 4,000 visitors<br />
took part in 2009. Several dozen non-profit organizations,<br />
governmental agencies and municipalities participate.<br />
Other nearby nature and culture centers, such as<br />
the Beczak Environmental Education Center, Croton Point<br />
Nature Center, Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>, and Constitution<br />
Marsh Audubon Center hold concurrent eagle-themed<br />
programs during the EagleFest week. Before and during<br />
the event, 5,000 free eagle spotting maps are distributed.<br />
The annual Nature Friendly Plant Sale celebrates the Cliffdale<br />
Farm legacy of Teatown and is a well-known source<br />
for local hardy and diverse garden plants. The plant sale<br />
takes place each spring<br />
An important part of Teatown’s mission is to teach ecology<br />
and encourage responsible interaction with nature.<br />
About 25,000 people come each year to attend an education<br />
program, visit the Nature Center, hike its trails, or<br />
tour Wildflower Island, a 2-acre island sanctuary located<br />
within Teatown <strong>Lake</strong> that is home to over 230 native and<br />
endangered species of wildflowers.<br />
Teatown’s educators offer a variety of environmental education<br />
programs, including weekend family and adults<br />
only programs, multi-week children’s series, school programs,<br />
school vacation camps, a summer camp, and<br />
special programs for Scouts and others organizations.<br />
Over 10,000 participants annually attend one or more<br />
such educational programs, including nearly 6,000<br />
school children and 700 summer campers. Annually,<br />
over 15,000 hikers traverse Teatown’s 15 miles of trails<br />
that span abundant fields, mixed forests, lakes, streams,<br />
swamps and farm land. Teatown volunteers also participate<br />
in the “Great Backyard Bird Count” sponsored by the<br />
Audubon Society each winter.<br />
Teatown’s Nature Center is a source of wildlife knowledge<br />
and home to a variety of amphibians, birds of prey,<br />
mammals and reptiles. The Nature Center also houses a<br />
store with books and small gifts. The Center often hosts<br />
gallery shows of art by area painters and photographers<br />
related to environmental themes.<br />
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<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong><br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> is a hamlet located in the Town of<br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong> in northern Westchester County, New York.<br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> is situated directly east, north and<br />
south of <strong>Peekskill</strong>, and east of three sections of the<br />
Town of <strong>Cortlandt</strong>, Croton-on-Hudson, Crugers, and<br />
Montrose. Most of the area is made up of residential<br />
homes. <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> also encompasses <strong>Cortlandt</strong><br />
Estates.<br />
The term “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>” derives from the history<br />
of Westchester County. Until the Revolutionary War,<br />
Westchester County was split into 6 manors one of<br />
which was “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> Manoor” shown on a map<br />
circa 1760 where “<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>” extended from<br />
the Hudson River to Connecticut.<br />
Until 1991, this area shared a mailing address and<br />
ZIP Code (10566) with the city of <strong>Peekskill</strong>. Although<br />
it now has its own ZIP code, <strong>10567</strong>, many directories<br />
and censuses still do not include <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>,<br />
because it is an unincorporated section of the Town<br />
of <strong>Cortlandt</strong>. The <strong>10567</strong> zip code was created by<br />
the US Postal Service to differentiate this part of the<br />
Town of <strong>Cortlandt</strong> from Cortland, New York, which is<br />
located hours away in upstate <strong>NY</strong>.<br />
The Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> Upper <strong>Manor</strong> House” is located off<br />
Oregon Road in <strong>Cortlandt</strong> just outside the <strong>Peekskill</strong><br />
city limits. The Upper <strong>Manor</strong> House was part of the<br />
estate of Stephanus Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong>, the colonial aristocrat<br />
and patroon who owned nearly all of northern<br />
Westchester County in the late 17th century. The more familiar centerpiece<br />
of the old estate, Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>, is located in the nearby<br />
village of Croton-on-Hudson.<br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong> residents are served by Hendrick Hudson Central School<br />
District, <strong>Lake</strong>land Central School District, and Putnam <strong>Valley</strong> Central<br />
School District. Two schools in Hendrick Hudson Central School District<br />
are located in <strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>: Furnace Woods Elementary School and<br />
Blue Mountain Middle School, which are separated by several soccer<br />
fields. Two of the <strong>Lake</strong>land Central School District schools are located in<br />
<strong>Cortlandt</strong> <strong>Manor</strong>: Van <strong>Cortlandt</strong>ville Elementary School and Walter Panas<br />
High School.<br />
The Aaron Copland House was listed on the National Register of Historic<br />
Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1973.<br />
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