Larchmont has always been distinguished from other settlements north of New York City by its thirteen acres of public-access shoreline and glaciated coast on Long Island Sound. Settled in the early 1800s, it became a resort community after wealthy New Yorkers began buying up abandoned farmland to create country estates. It rose to international fame on the coattails of the Larchmont Yacht Club.
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Author Judith Doolin Spikes compiled Larchmont as a tribute to her community. For this rich history, she combined more than two hundred vintage photographs with informative narrative. In it, she traces the evolution of Larchmont from Siwanoy fishing camp to incorporation as a mile-square village in 1891 to a commuter (first railroad, then automobile) suburb. She also includes the surrounding six-square-mile suburban area that shares the Larchmont postal address. Larchmont Village historian since 1980, she is the founding president of the Larchmont Historical Society and is a former teacher and journalist. She earned her doctorate from the University of Chicago.
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UMBRELLA POINT. In Manor Park near Umbrella Point, one glance shows the indigenous granite formed here some 360 million years ago and scraped bare by the glaciers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Manor Company, Larchmont Manor, New York City, Weaver Street, Manor Park, New Rochelle, Edward Knight Collins, Beach Avenue, Larchmunt Manor, Maple Avenue, Peter Jay Munro, Larchmont Yacht Club, Charles Murray, Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club, Magnolia Avenue, Middle Neck, Prospect Avenue, Larchmont Park, Larchmont Village, Palmer Avenue, Park Avenue, William Campbell, World War, All Saints Chapel, Bruce Allen New!
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UMBRELLA POINT. In Manor Park near Umbrella Point, one glance shows the indigenous granite formed here some 360 million years ago and scraped bare by the glaciers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unincorporated town, post road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Manor Company, Larchmont Manor, New York City, Weaver Street, Manor Park, New Rochelle, Edward Knight Collins, Beach Avenue, Larchmunt Manor, Maple Avenue, Peter Jay Munro, Larchmont Yacht Club, Charles Murray, Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club, Magnolia Avenue, Middle Neck, Prospect Avenue, Larchmont Park, Larchmont Village, Palmer Avenue, Park Avenue, William Campbell, World War, All Saints Chapel, Bruce Allen New!
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- Mount Vernon (Cornerstones of Freedom) by Mary Collins on page 45
- The Big Four by Random House on page 48
- The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific (The Railroads) by Oscar Lewis on page 48
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