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OSSINING , a See also: village of Westchester county, New See also: York, U.S.A., 30 M
.
N. of New York city, on the E. See also: bank 9f the Hudson See also: river
.
Pop
.
(1900) 7939, of whom 1642 were See also: foreign-See also: born; (1910, U.S. 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 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 Prison, the best-known 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 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 Sin Sinck See also: Indians
.
The village was incorporated in '813, and was reincorporated, with enlarged boundaries and a considerably increased population, in 1906, the name being changed from Sing Sing to Ossining in 19o1
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