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Sparta in 1868 before incorporation within Ossining village. Sparta [1] is a neighborhood of the village of Ossining in Westchester County, New York, United States. Sparta borders the Hudson River, south of most of the village of Ossining. The neighborhood was a hamlet of the town of Ossining, and remains its oldest community. Sparta was ...
Ossining's Metro-North Station, dates back to the days of New York Central Railroad. The Ossining train station provides commuter rail service to Grand Central Terminal in New York City or Croton-Harmon and Poughkeepsie via the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line. The Bee-Line Bus System provides bus service to Ossining on routes 11, 13, 14, and 19.
The Downtown Ossining Historic District is located at the central crossroads of Ossining, New York, United States, and the village's traditional business district known as the Crescent. Among its many late 19th- and early 20th-century commercial buildings are many of the village's major landmarks—three bank buildings, four churches, its ...
Ossining (/ ˈ ɒ s ɪ n ɪ ŋ / OSS-in-ing) is a town located along the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. The population was 40,061 at the time of the 2020 census. [ 2 ] It contains two villages , the Village of Ossining and part of Briarcliff Manor , the rest of which is located in the Town of Mount Pleasant .
Sparta was established in 1789 before the establishment of Livingston County. Eventually, Sparta was diminished by the removal of land for other towns, including Springwater (1816), West Sparta (1846), and Groveland (1856). Sparta also received territory from other towns: Dansville (in Steuben County) (1822) and Groveland (1856).
Four years later, Davids took out a mortgage covering 70 of those acres (28 ha) to cover debts he had owed a New York City man since 1772. In 1794 he defaulted, and signed it over to James Drowley, who laid out a plan for Sparta but died in 1795. A survey map from that year of the plan is the first known to show a building at the current site. [5]
Highland Cottage, also known as Squire House, is located on South Highland Avenue (U.S. Route 9) in Ossining, New York, United States.It was the first concrete house in Westchester County, [2] built in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival architectural style.
Sparta Historic District, a local historic district of Sparta, Ossining, New York Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sparta Historic District .