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PORT CHESTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PORT See also:CHESTER , a See also:village of Westchester See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., in the See also:south-See also:east See also:part of the See also:state, on See also:Long See also:Island See also:Sound, and about 10 m. N.E. of New York See also:City (26 m. from the See also:Grand Central Station). Pop. (I goo), 7440, of whom 2110 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 12,809. It is served by the New York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railroad, and by daily steamers to and from New York City. The village is a summer resort as well as a suburban residential See also:district for New York City. Among its public institutions are a library, a See also:park and a See also:hospital. The village has various manufactures, including bolts and nuts, See also:motors for racing boats and automobiles; there are also large planing and See also:wood-moulding See also:mills. The earliest mention of Port Chester in any extant See also:record is in the See also:year 1732. Until 1837 it was known as Saw See also:Pit, on See also:account of a portion of the village, it is said, being used as a See also:place for See also:building boats. During the See also:War of See also:Independence the village was frequently occupied by detachments of See also:American troops. Port Chester was incorporated as a village in 1868.

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