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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Croton Falls (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Croton Falls. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Cemeteries Near Croton Falls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Croton Falls.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Croton Falls - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Croton Falls covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Croton Falls, with the one closest to Croton Falls listed first.

  • Ivandell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Warren Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Mills Road Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Cat Ridge Baptist Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Drewsclift Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Union Valley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Halstead Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • June Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Quaker Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Peach Lake Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Ellis Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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    • Crane Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Methodist Graveyard
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Gilead Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Croton Falls had a population of 427 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Croton Falls, with the one closest to Croton Falls listed first.

  • Somers
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Purdys
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Goldens Bridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Salem Center
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Salem Center is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Center
  • Crafts
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Crafts is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crafts
  • North Salem
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • North Salem is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Salem
  • Brewster
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Tilly Foster
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Tilly Foster is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilly Foster
  • Baldwin Place
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Carmel
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Amawalk
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Katonah
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
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    • Cross River
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Dykemans
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Dykemans is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dykemans
    • Mahopac Mines
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Mahopac Mines is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahopac Mines

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Croton Falls. See our List of 1890's Communities around Croton Falls.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Croton Falls ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 66 newspapers that have been published in the area around Croton Falls.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Croton Falls. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Croton Falls and those printed in the larger area surrounding Croton Falls.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4> of Croton Falls.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Croton Falls:

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Croton Falls, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Croton Falls) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.