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NEW ROCHELLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEW ROCHELLE , a See also:

city of Westchester See also:county, in See also:southern New See also:York, U.S.A., on See also:Long See also:Island See also:Sound, 162 m. from the See also:Grand Central Station, New York City. Pop. (189o) 9057, (1900) 14,720, of whom 4425 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 777 negroes; (1910 See also:census) 28,867. It is served by the New York, New Haven & See also:Hartford Railroad, and by electric See also:railways to New York City and neighbouring places. The city is primarily a residential suburb of New York City, and has some See also:fine colonial residences, and several beautiful residential parks, notably Rochelle, See also:Neptune, and Beechmont Parks. Its large foreign-born See also:population is comparatively See also:recent and comparatively isolated. Among the prominent buildings of the city See also:axe a public library, the high school, a See also:theatre (owned by the Knights of See also:Columbus), a Masonic See also:Temple, the City See also:Bank and several churches, of which the most notable, perhaps, are the Baptist, Methodist, and St See also:Gabriel's (See also:Roman See also:Catholic), which is the See also:gift of members of the Iselin See also:family, to whose See also:interest in See also:yachting is due in See also:part the prominence of the New Rochelle and Larchmont Yacht Clubs. The Ursuline See also:College of St Angela (1904) and the See also:Merrill School (Igoe), both for girls, are in New Rochelle. The See also:principal See also:building of the first is See also:Leland See also:Castle, built in 1858-186o by See also:Simon Leland and finely decorated with frescoes and coloured See also:marbles. A See also:People's See also:Forum, growing out of the See also:work of the People's See also:Institute of New York City, was established here in 19o3-19o4. In the road between New Rochelle and See also:White Plains is the See also:monument to See also:Thomas See also:Paine, provided for in his will, on the See also:farm which was confiscated from a Tory by the See also:state and was given to him at the end of the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence. On the Sound, in See also:Hudson See also:Park, is a monument commemorating the landing-See also:place of the first Huguenot settlers.

Immediately S. of New Rochelle, in the Sound, is Glen Island, an amusement resort; belonging to the Glen Island See also:

group, E. of See also:Pelham 2 ianor, is Travers Island, with the out-of-See also:town clubhouse and grounds of the New York Athletic See also:Club. On See also:David's Island, a a m. S.W. of New Rochelle, is Fort See also:Slocum, a See also:United States See also:Army See also:post. The suburban villages of Larchmont and Pelham (and Pelham See also:Manor) See also:lie respectively N.E. and W. of New Rochelle. The important See also:industries are the manufacture of scales and of other See also:instruments of precision, and See also:printing and See also:publishing—the See also:Knickerbocker See also:Press of G. P. See also:Putnam's Sons, New York, is here. The site of New Rochelle is part of a See also:purchase by Thomas See also:Pell in 1654 and of a See also:grant to him by See also:Richard See also:Nicolls in 1666; it was sold in 1689 to See also:Jacob See also:Leisler. The first See also:settlement of importance was made in 1688 by See also:Huguenots, some of whom were natives of La Rochelle. New Rochelle was incorporated as a See also:village in 1847, and as a city in 1899. See R. and C. W.

See also:

Bolton, See also:History of the Several Towns, Manors and See also:Patents of Westchester County (New York, 1881), and J. Thomas See also:Scharf's History of Westchester County (2 vols., See also:Philadelphia, 1886).

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