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Pocantico Hills, New York

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The fire department has a tanker truck which often responds mutual-aid to neighboring fire districts when called upon, having assisted at fire related incidents in the Villages of Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Irvington, and Elmsford, as well
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The Roman Catholic Parish of the Magdalene began in 1893 as a mission Church of St. Teresa of Avila parish in North Tarrytown to serve about forty families in Pocantico Hills and Eastview. The Church was dedicated in September 1895. A significant benefactor of the parish was grocery store magnate
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was built by the Rockefeller family in 1921. It features stained glass windows by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. The Matisse window was his final piece prior to his death in 1954 and was commissioned by Nelson A. Rockefeller in memory of his mother,
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in Pocantico Hills was established in 2003 to demonstrate multi-cultural, self-sustaining farming techniques; it is host to the Blue Hill restaurant, a high-end eatery which features foodstuffs grown (or raised) on the Stone Barns property.
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The hamlet is a part of the Pocantico Hills Central School District, and the Pocantico Hills School, a K-8 school, has a diverse district that lays across town and village borders, including areas of
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Emergency services stem from a variety of sources, with policing services provided by the Town of Mount Pleasant Police Department, fire protection services provided from the all-volunteer
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The area was once called Beeckmantown, after the family of Stephen D. Beeckman, who had lived in a residence on the highest ground of the area, just west of the "Irving Institute".
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The first volunteer fire department, Liberty Hook and Ladder Company, was organized in 1904.
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Trestle Bridge, at East Tarry Town, N.Y. on the New York, Boston & Montreal Railway
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A History of the County of Westchester, From its First Settlement to the Present Time
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tribes; "Pocantico" means "stream between two hills", a reference to the meandering
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The hamlet lies within, and is governed by the Town of Mount Pleasant, New York.
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Weinstock, Cheryl Platzman. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Pocantico Hills",
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Lalibert, Nathan. "The History of the Rockefeller Family in Westchester",
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Miller, Richard (April 25, 2014). "What Happened to East View?".
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as the hamlets Archville, Hawthorne, Thornwood, and Valhalla.
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The area was originally settled by Native Americans of the
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Pocantico Hills
Pocantico Hills in Autumn
Pocantico Hills, New York is located in New York
41°5′40″N 73°50′9″W / 41.09444°N 73.83583°W / 41.09444; -73.83583
State
New York
County
Westchester County
Town
Mount Pleasant
Time zone
UTC-5
Eastern (EST)
DST
UTC-4
ZIP code
Area code
914
hamlet
Westchester County
Mount Pleasant, New York
Kykuit
John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Rockefeller State Park Preserve
Wecquaesgeek
Pocantico River
Philipsburg Manor
John D. Rockefeller

"Old Put" Railroad

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