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Cortlandt is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States, located at the northwestern edge of the county, at the eastern terminus of the Bear Mountain Bridge. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,545. The town includes the villages of Buchanan and Croton-on-Hudson.
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The city is within the former Central New York Military Tract. It is named after Pierre Van Cortlandt, the first lieutenant governor of New York. [4] Cortland, settled in 1791, was made a village in 1853 (rechartered in 1864), and incorporated in 1900 as New York's 41st city. When the county was formed in 1808, Cortland vied with other villages ...
Jacobus Van Cortlandt (1658–1739), wealthy merchant and mayor of New York City; Philip Van Cortlandt (1749–1831), American surveyor, landowner, and politician from New York; Pierre Van Cortlandt (1721–1814), first Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York; Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643–1700), first native-born mayor of New York City
Bear Mountain Bridge Road is a three-mile (4.8 km), two-lane section of US 6/US 202 from the west approach to Bear Mountain Bridge to a former toll house in the Town of Cortlandt, New York, United States. Local residents sometimes refer to the road as the Goat Trail.
Peekskill-Cortlandt Patch. 6 June 2011. The Town of Cortlandt Bicentennial History Committee (1988). History of the Town of Cortlandt. ISBN 0-9621119-0-2. "Bars $26,000 Fee in Will Contest" (PDF). The New York Times. 5 August 1919 "Town of Cortlant Master Plan - Chapter 9: Historic Preservation" (PDF). 9 July 2004.
Cortlandt Manor is a hamlet—an unincorporated section—of the town of Cortlandt in northern Westchester County, New York, roughly surrounding Peekskill, encompassing Corlandt Estates and lying east of three sections of the town of Cortlandt, Croton-on-Hudson, Crugers, and Montrose. It is a mostly residential area.
Buchanan is a village located in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 2,230 as of the 2010 census. [3] The now decommissioned Indian Point nuclear power facility is located in Buchanan. The 2000 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree also came from Buchanan. [4]