“ In the village are the Hackley School (1899) , Irving School (1837) , Repton School and the "Castle" School for girls; a Young Men's Lyceum (1899) , with a public library (8000 volumes in 1910) and the Tarrytown Hospital (1892) . In the vicinity there are large nurseries and market-gardens, and automobiles are manufactured in the village. Tarrytown stands on the site of a Wecquaesgeek Indian village, Alipconk (the place of elms) , burned by the Dutch in 1644. The first settlement of whites was made about 1645. ”

“ On the post road, on the 24th of September 1780, Major John Andre was captured by three Continentals, John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wert; to commemorate the capture a marble shaft surmounted by a bronze statue of a Continental soldier has been erected on the spot. ”