The Pocantico River is a nine-mile-long (14 km) tributary of the Hudson River in western central Westchester County, New York, United States. It rises from Echo Lake, in the town of New Castle south of the hamlet of Millwood, and flows generally southwest past Briarcliff Manor to its outlet at Sleepy Hollow. Portions of the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining are within its 16-square-mile (41 km2) watershed.
Writer Washington Irving, who lived in the area for most of his life, was inspired by the undeveloped area above the river's mouth to write his classic "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Later in the 19th century much of the land was purchased by the Rockefeller family as part of their Kykuit estate; today much of that land has become Rockefeller State Park Preserve. A former reservoir used by the city of New Rochelle has likewise been converted into county-run Pocantico Lake Park. While the river runs predominantly through those parks and suburban land,[4] it is still one of the most polluted tributaries of the Hudson.[5]
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New York City north to the river, while the Weckquaesgeeks occupied the land from the river north to the PocanticoRiver. The Manhattans' principal village...
at what was then known as North Tarrytown, where the PocanticoRiver flowed into the Hudson River. A small community had already been established there...
unfair, when the Rockefellers had been allowed to continue to own the Pocantico Hills. The land has been used as part of the park since the 1970s, when...
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traced back to the founding of a settlement between the Hudson and PocanticoRivers in the 19th century. The area now known as Briarcliff Manor had seen...
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Tarrytown Point, the peninsula created by the outflow of sediment from the PocanticoRiver. Steamboat captains consulted by the government suggested that the...
John Whitson on the south side of Pleasantville Road, between the PocanticoRiver and the New York & Putnam Railroad (now NY Route 9A/100). The building...
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