A Quick Chronology
of Irvington, New York in
Early Days
Compiled by Henry Steiner, Village Historian, Sleepy Hollow
WASHINGTON IRVING
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?-1609 |
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Native Americans of the Delaware Tribe are the only people to inhabit the environs of Irvington. |
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1609 |
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Henry Hudson passes the Irvington area while exploring the Hudson River. |
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1626 |
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The birth of Frederick Philipse I in Europe. |
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1643 |
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War between the Dutch and local Indian tribes. |
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1682 |
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By this date Frederick Philipse I is a member of the Governor’s Council. |
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1682 |
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Philipse purchases a tract of land which includes present day Irvington. |
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1691 |
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The death of Margaret DeVries, first wife of Frederick Philipse I. |
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1692 |
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By this date Wolfert Acker is a tenant farmer on the Manor of Philipsburg in the Irvington area. His tenant farmhouse was later to be transformed by Washington Irving into the whimsical Victorian cottage today known as Sunnyside. South of the Acker place was the tenant farm of Barent Dutcher. |
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1692 |
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The marriage of Frederick Philipse I and Catherine Derval, his 2nd wife. |
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1693 |
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Philipse’s extensive manor along
the Hudson River is confirmed by the British Crown. |
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c. 1700 |
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Captain John Buckhout resides on a tenant farm directly to the north of the Harmse place. |
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1703 |
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The New &York Provincial Assembly authorizes the building of the Albany Post Road. |
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1723 |
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The Albany Post Road is completed through the area of present day Irvington. |
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1742 |
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The death of Captain Jan Harmse. Mathius and Sophia Conklin take possession of the Harmse farm house, subsequently employing it as an tavern. |
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1774 |
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The death of Mathias Conklin. Jonathan Odell taken possession of the tavern. |
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1785 |
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The death of Captain John Buckhout. |
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1776 |
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John Odell (son of Jonathan) enlists in the Westchester militia with two brothers at Tarrytown. |
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1776 |
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Jonathan Odell arrested by the British and imprisoned in New York after the Battle of White Plains.. |
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1783 |
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The birth of Washington Irving in NYC. |
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1785 |
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The confiscated lands of Frederick Philipse III, including all of present day Irvington are sold to local farmers by the State of New York. |
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1812 |
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Justus Dearman buys land from the estate of William Dutcher II, comprising the future center of Irvington. |
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1835 |
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Washington Irving purchases an old tenant farmhouse in the Irvington area and makes Sunnyside his home. |
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1835 |
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Washington Irving purchases the former tenant farm house of Woolfert Ecker, and transforms it into Sunnyside. |
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1836 |
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James Hamilton (son of Alexander Hamilton) builds Nevis |
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1842 |
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Completion of the Old Croton Aqueduct. |
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1849 |
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The farm of Justus Dearman is purchased by Franklin C. Field. |
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1849 |
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The railroad arrives in the Irvington area. |
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1850 |
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The former farm of Justus Dearman is divided into 266 lots and sold at auction. It later becomes the village center of Irvington. |
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1851 |
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The hamlet of Abbotsford is begun near East and West Clinton Street. |
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1857 |
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The name Irvington comes into use. |
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1859 |
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The death of Washington Irving. |
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1872 |
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Irvington is incorporated as a village. |
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1890 |
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The population of Irvington is reported as 2,299. |
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1895 |
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Cosmopolitan Magazine makes its home in Irvington in a building designed by Stanford White. |
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1898 |
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The population of Irvington is reported as 2,013. |
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