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Unbuilt Croton — Projects That Never Were — Carl Oechsner

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By 1911 she shifted focus to suffragette activism. She died in 1914 from a shipwreck. Only an administration building on Alexander Lane was completed, on what is still called Nordica Hill.

CROTON VALLEY RAILROAD (1886): Proposed from Croton River's mouth along the river for eight miles, later expanded to 23 miles reaching the Connecticut border. Spent $22,516.84 on surveys. Sold under foreclosure in 1893 to Leila B.

Scrymser. The company was "practically out of existence" by 1893. Never received franchise approval.

In 1895, the Croton Valley Electric Railway proposed a four-mile trolley from the station to the new Cornell (Croton) Dam. CROTON POINT LIGHTHOUSE (1846-1849): Vessel masters petitioned for a lighthouse at Teller's Point. Congress appropriated $4,000.

But property owner R.T. Underhill (the vineyard owner) objected strongly, saying he "would not accept ten thousand dollars." The light was relocated to Tarrytown Point, then Beekman's Point, before ultimately becoming the Sleepy Hollow Lighthouse installed in 1883 at a cost of $21,000. CROTON POINT DRY DOCK AND SHIP YARDS (1902): The Federal Government considered purchasing Croton Point for dry docks employing 1,500 men.