Unbuilt Croton — Sixteen projects that could have transformed Croton-on-Hudson but were never built. By Carl Oechsner, edited by Gretchen Bock. Source: https://www.crotonfriendsofhistory.org/unbuilt-croton THE SHARON-CROTON CANAL (1822): A proposed canal from the Croton River mouth northward to Sharon, Connecticut. Engineer George Young surveyed the route, associated with John B. Jervis who later…

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 …

The Croton Journal headlined "Big Boom for Croton." The project never materialized. HARLEM-ON-THE-HUDSON (1923): The Hudson River Development Company, prominent Harlem investors, announced a verbal purchase agreement for the 350-acre Croton Point to create "a very high class place" — an established community, country club, churches and bathing beaches for Black New Yorkers. Within a week, Westches…