White Plains, NY

Introduction

The City of White Plains is the shire chair of Westchester County, New York, United States. It is established in south-central Westchester, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the Hudson River and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Long Island Sound. It is bordered to the north by the village of North Castle, to the north and east by the town/village of Harrison, to the south by the town/village of Scarsdale and to the west by the village of Greenburgh. As of the 2000 U.S. census, the town had a total community of 53,077, while a 2006 census approximate put the city's community at 57,081. White Plains is one of the for demonstration towns that have evolved out-of-doors of New York City. According to the town government, the daytime weekday community is approximated at 250,000. (Tessa 36-74)

History

At the time of the Dutch town of Manhattan in the early 17th 100 years, the district had been utilised as farmland by the Weckquaeskeck tribe, constituents of the Mohican territory and was called "Quarropas". To early traders it was renowned as "the White Plains", either from the groves of white balsam which are said to have enclosed it, or from the hefty mist that localized custom proposes hovered over the swamplands beside the Bronx River. The first non-native town came in November 1683, when a party of Connecticut Puritans moved westward from an previous town in Rye and acquired about 4,400 acres (1,800 ha), most likely from the Weckquaeskeck. However, John Richbell of Mamaroneck, asserted to have previous name to much of the territory through his buy of a far bigger contrive expanding 20 miles (32 km) inland, possibly from a distinct tribe. The issue wasn't resolved until 1721, when a Royal Patent for White Plains was allocated by King George II. (James 15-20)

In 1758, White Plains became the chair of Westchester County when the colonial government for the shire left West Chester, which was established in what is now the to the north part of the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. The unincorporated town stayed part of the Town of Rye until 1788, when the Town of White Plains was created.

During September and October 1776, armies directed by George Washington took up places in the high grounds of the town, hotly chased by the British under General Sir William Howe, who assaulted on October 28. The first United States Census, undertook in 1790, recorded the White Plains community at 505, of who 46 were slaves. (New York City's community at that time was about 33,000.) By 1800, the community stood at 575 and in 1830, 830. By 1870, 26 years after the appearance of the New York Central Railroad, it had enlarged to 2,630 and by 1890 to 4,508. In the decades that pursued the enumerate increased to 7,899 (1900) and 26,425 (1910). White Plains was incorporated as a town in 1866 and as a town in 1916. (Hoffman 50-88)

Geography

White Plain is (1778) of Westchester shire, New York, U.S. It lies along the Bronx and ...