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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village of Westchester See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., 30 M. N. of New York See also:city, on the E. See also:bank 9f the See also:Hudson See also:river. Pop. (1900) 7939, of whom 1642 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910, U.S. See also:census) 11,480. It is served by the New York Central & Hudson River railway, and by river steamboats. It is finely situated overlooking the Tappan Zee, an expansion of the Hudson river, and has excellent facilities for boating, sailing and See also:yachting. The village is the seat of See also:Mount Pleasant See also:Academy (1814), Holbrook School (1866) and St See also:John's School (1843), all for boys, and has a See also:fine public library. The Croton See also:Aqueduct is here carried over a See also:stone See also:arch with an eighty-See also:foot span. At Ossining, near the river front, is the Sing Sing See also:Prison, the best-known See also:penitentiary in the See also:United States. In 1906 a See also:law was enacted providing for a new prison in the eastern See also:part of the See also:state in See also:place of Sing Sing. The site of Ossining, originally a part of the Phillipse See also:Manor, was first settled about 1700, taking the name of Sing Sing from the See also:Sin Sinck See also:Indians. The village was incorporated in '813, and was reincorporated, with enlarged boundaries and a considerably increased See also:population, in 1906, the name being changed from Sing Sing to Ossining in 19o1.

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