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The following is a timeline of the history of the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States.

Prehistory

• Archaic period: Around this time, the area of Scarborough is first inhabited.
• Precolonial era: The area of present-day Briarcliff Manor is inhabited by a band of the Wappinger tribes of Native Americans known as Sint Sincks (or "Sing Sings").

17th century

• 1680 (1680): Frederick Philipse purchases the Ossining area from Indian sachem Ghoharius with the consent of his brother Weskora. Weskora became the name of the Hudson River hamlet later known as Scarborough.
• August 4, 1685 (1685-08-04): Philipse purchased about 156,000 acres (630 km) from the Sint Sincks, Philipsburg Manor, extending from Spuyten Duyvil Creek along the Hudson River to the Croton River.

18th century

• 1778 (1778): The Wappingers unsuccessfully attempt to sue the Philipse family for control of the land; their claim died out after around fifty tribespeople, organized into the Stockbridge Militia under Abraham Nimham and his father Daniel Nimham, were killed by British forces in the Battle of Kingsbridge during the American Revolutionary War.
• 1779 (1779): The New York State Commission on Forfeiture confiscates the Philipses' land; it is sold in 1784–85.

19th century

• 1864 (1864): Weskora is renamed Scarborough.
• 1865 (1865): A one-room schoolhouse is built on land donated by John Whitson; it is the first schoolhouse and church in the area.
• 1880 (1880): The Whitson's Corners station is added to the New York City & Northern Railroad train schedule, and the first train arrives on December 13.
• 1881 (1881): The Whitson's Corners post office is established.
• 1890 (1890): Walter Law moves with his family to the area and purchases his first 236 acres (96 ha) with the James Stillman farm for $35,000 ($1,186,900 today).
• 1897 (1897): The post office is renamed the Briarcliff Manor Post Office.

20th century

• 1900s (1900s): Law establishes Briarcliff Farms, the Briarcliff Table Water Company and the Briarcliff Greenhouses.
• 1900 (1900): Law owns more than 5,000 acres (7.8 sq mi) of Westchester County, and becomes the largest individual landholder in the county.
• 1900 (1900): Law establishes the School of Practical Agriculture on Pleasantville Road on 66 acres (0.1 sq mi).
• 1901 (1901): Briarcliff Steamer Company No. 1 is formed.
• 1902 (1902): Law has invested $2.5 million ($88 million today) in the village by this time.
• 1902 (1902): A proposition is presented to the supervisors of Mount Pleasant and Ossining on October 8 for the incorporation of the Village of Briarcliff Manor. On November 21, the village is incorporated. At the time, Law owns all but two small parcels of the square mile village, and employs 100 of its residents.
• 1902 (1902): The Briarcliff Lodge opens.
• February 10, 1903 (1903-02-10): The Briarcliff Manor Fire Department is founded on February 10, 1903 by Frederick C. Messinger from Briarcliff Steamer Company No. 1.
• 1904 (1904): The first twenty-nine street lights, all electric, are installed.
• 1906 (1906): Scarborough is incorporated into Briarcliff Manor.
• 1907 (1907): Law's Briarcliff Farms move to Pine Plains, New York, and Law begins developing Briarcliff Manor more as a municipal corporation.
• April 24, 1908 (1908-04-24): Briarcliff Manor sponsored The First American International Road Race; the event centered around the village, and more than 300,000 people watched the race; the village had more than 100,000 visitors that day.
• 1908 (1908): The village police department is organized and The Church House, the parish house of the Scarborough Presbyterian Church, is completed.
• 1910 (1910): The Briarcliff Community Center, nicknamed "The Club", is established in the 1898 Briarcliff Schools building.
• 1910 (1910): The Public Library, also originally in the Briarcliff Community Center, is founded.
• May 11, 1911 (1911-05-11): Sleepy Hollow Country Club is founded in Scarborough, at the former house of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard.
• 1913 (1913): The Village Municipal Building is built at a cost of $20,000 ($616,600 today); it was opened on July 4, 1914.
• World War I: 91 Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.
• 1925 (1925): V. Everit Macy donates 265 acres (107 ha) to the Girl Scouts of the USA, which later becomes the Edith Macy Conference Center.
• 1927 (1927): Briarcliff's school building is demolished to make way for the Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway.
• 1928 (1928): The high school opens, and a section was added to the 1909 school building.
• 1934 (1934): A 100-mile race in the village is sponsored by the Automobile Racing Club of America.
• 1935 (1935): Briarcliff's road race is held again.
• 1936 (1936) – 1954 (1954): The Briarcliff Lodge houses the Edgewood Park School.
• World War II: More than 340 of the village's 1,830 residents Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.
• 1946 (1946): The People's Caucus, an organization which calls out interested residents for candidacy, was created.
• Korean War: Approximately 30 Briarcliff Manor residents serve in the U.S. armed forces.
• October 10, 1952 (1952-10-10) – October 12, 1952 (1952-10-12): Briarcliff Manor celebrates its semicentennial celebration, publishing a book about the village and its history.
• 1952 (1952): The Crossroads neighborhood of 84 houses is completed.
• 1953 (1953): Todd Elementary School opens to free space at the Law Park grade school for middle- and high-school students.
• 1955 (1955) – 1994 (1994): The Briarcliff Lodge houses The King's College.
• 1958 (1958): The Briarcliff Manor train station, along with the Putnam Division, is shut down.
• 1959 (1959): The Public Library opens in the former train station.
• 1960s (1960s): The Municipal Building's cupola bell, which had tolled at the end of the World Wars, was moved to the front of the new firehouse.
• 1960 (1960): The village's first corporate facility (part of Philips Laboratory) opens.
• 1964 (1964): The new Village Hall opens, replacing the Municipal Building.
• Vietnam War: At least five men serve in the U.S. armed forces, with four killed and another wounded.
• 1971 (1971): The present high school opens to ease the large enrollment at the grade-school building.
• 1977 (1977): Pace University purchases Briarcliff College as a satellite of the school's Pleasantville campus.
• 1978 (1978): The Scarborough School closes.
• 1980 (1980): The Chilmark Club becomes a part of the village's Parks and Recreation Department; Pace University begins leasing the middle-school building, and the middle school is moved to a portion of the new high-school building.
• 1981 (1981): Rotary International founds a local chapter in the village.
• 1996 (1996): The grade-school building is demolished, and senior housing is built on its site the following year.
• 1998 (1998): The high school auditorium opens.
• September 16, 1999 (1999-09-16): The Beech Hill Road bridge is destroyed by the rising Pocantico River during Hurricane Floyd.

21st century

• 2000 (2000): The pool house in Law Memorial Park is demolished; construction on a new facility begins shortly after.
• November 2001 (2001-11): A $4-million rehabilitation ($6.88 million today) of Law Park is completed, with a new pavilion and pool house, paved walkways, lights and benches, a redesigned and filtered pond, and relocation of the Veterans Memorial. Over 300 people attend the Veterans Day rededication ceremony.
• 2002 (2002): The village celebrates its centennial, which involves numerous celebratory events.
• 2002 (2002): Ambient Corporation and Consolidated Edison install an experimental broadband over power lines (BPL) system in Briarcliff Manor; the system is now defunct.
• September 20, 2003 (2003-09-20): The original 1902 Briarcliff Lodge building burns to the ground, and contemporary portions of the lodge and other campus buildings were later demolished.
• 2007 (2007): In the summer, construction of a 6,600-square-foot (610 m) addition to the Briarcliff Manor Public Library begins; the facility is opened for use on February 19, 2009.
• 2008 (2008) – 2012 (2012): Briarcliff Manor hosts a weekly indoor farmers' market, first at the Briarcliff Congregational Church's parish house; it moves to Pace University's Briarcliff Campus in 2012.
• 2011 (2011): After Hurricane Irene, a sinkhole about 20 feet in diameter forma on North State Road in front of a gas station and repair shop, and New York's department of transportation spends about $900,000 repairing the damage.
• 2011 (2011): The village becomes involved in an annexation proposal with the town of Ossining. A petition is circulated in Ossining election districts 17 and 20 (comprising 1,600 people), which is signed by about 20 percent of the residents.
• 2013 (2013): During the week of October 14, the petition is filed with the town of Ossining and the village of Briarcliff Manor.
• March 2013 (2013-03): The Briarcliff Manor board approves the proposal, while the Ossining town board rejects it.
• April 9, 2014 (2014-04-09): Briarcliff Manor passes a resolution to appeal the issue to the Appellate Division Court.

See also

• History of Briarcliff Manor
• History of New York

• Geography
• Hudson Valley
• New York

References

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4. ^ Cheever, Mary (1990). The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough. West Kennebunk, Maine: Phoenix Publishing. ISBN 0-914659-49-9. LCCN 90045613. OCLC 22274920. OL 1884671M.
5. ^ Midge Bosak, ed. (1977). A Village Between Two Rivers: Briarcliff Manor. Monarch Publishing, Inc.
6. ^ Pattison, Robert (1939). A History of Briarcliff Manor. William Rayburn. OCLC 39333547.
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8. Pelletreau, William (1886). History of Putnam County, New York: with biographical sketches of its prominent men. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
9. Boesch, Eugene. "Native Americans of Putnam County". Mahopac Public Library. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
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11. ^ Gelard, Donna (2002). Explore Briarcliff Manor: A driving tour. Contributing Editor Elsie Smith; layout and typography by Lorraine Gelard; map, illustrations, and calligraphy by Allison Krasner. Briarcliff Manor Centennial Committee.
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18. "Club's $600,000 Purchase". The New York Times. June 17, 1917. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
19. ^ A Century of Volunteer Service: Briarcliff Manor Fire Department 1901–2001. Briarcliff Manor Fire Department. 2001. LCCN 00093475.
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Further reading

• Online books
• Resources in your library
• Resources in other libraries

• Cheever, Mary (1990). The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough. West Kennebunk, Maine: Phoenix Publishing. ISBN 0-914659-49-9. OCLC 22274920. A 1990 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
• Midge Bosak, ed. (1977). A Village Between Two Rivers: Briarcliff Manor. Monarch Publishing, Inc.A 1977 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
• Our Village: Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. 1902 to 1952. Historical Committee of the Semi–Centennial. 1952.A 1952 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.
• Pattison, Robert (1939). A History of Briarcliff Manor. William Rayburn. OCLC 39333547. A 1939 publication on the history of Briarcliff Manor.

External links

• Official website for the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society

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