Harrison, New York
| Harrison | |
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| Coterminous town/village | |
 Location of Harrison, New York |
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| Coordinates: 41°0′25″N 73°43′5″W / 41.00694°N 73.71806°WCoordinates: 41°0′25″N 73°43′5″W / 41.00694°N 73.71806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Westchester |
| Founded | 1696 |
| Town | March 7, 1788 |
| Town/village | 1975 |
| Named for | John Harrison |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council government |
| • Supervisor/Mayor | Ronald Belmont (R) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17.4 sq mi (45.0 km2) |
| • Land | 16.8 sq mi (43.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.6 sq mi (1.5 km2) |
| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 27,472 |
| • Density | 1,600/sq mi (610/km2) |
| Demonym(s) | Harrisonite |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 10528 |
| Area code(s) | 914 |
| FIPS code | 36-32402 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0977345 |
| Website | http://www.harrison-ny.gov |
Harrison is a village and town located in Westchester County, New York, approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Manhattan. The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census. Harrison was ranked sixth in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto.
According to Forbes, Harrison is the 326th wealthiest place in the United States with a median sale price of $1,230,625, slightly below that of Chappaqua.Fundera ranked Harrison the best place in New York for small business.
Harrison was established in 1696 by a patent granted by the British government to John Harrison and three others, who had a year earlier bargained with local Native Americans to purchase an area of land above Westchester Path (an old trail that led from Manhattan to Port Chester) and below Rye Lake. Local custom holds that Harrison was given 24 hours to ride his horse around the area he could claim, and the horse couldn't swim or didn't want to get its feet wet, but this is folklore. In fact, the land below Westchester Path and along Long Island Sound had already been purchased and partly developed by the settlers of Rye, NY.
The area that became Harrison had also been sold in 1661 or 1662, and again in 1666, to Peter Disbrow, John Budd, and other investors or early residents of Rye. Disbrow and Budd evidently lost their paperwork and the land was ultimately granted to Harrison and his co-investors in 1696. So upset were the people or Rye that they seceded to the Colony of Connecticut until 1700, when the King of England ordered Rye to rejoin the Colony of New York.
The first permanent residents of Harrison's Purchase, as it was called, arrived in about 1725, and many early settlers were Quakers, who set up a Friend's Meeting House at a settlement located in the part of Harrison now called Purchase. Harrison's Purchase was administered jointly by the settlers of Rye until it was incorporated as a town on March 7, 1788, by an act of the New York State legislature.
Merritt's Hill in West Harrison was the site of the Battle of White Plains during the Revolutionary War. Regiment 182 of the Continental Army, of the 367 regiments there, was the Harrison Regiment, composed solely of people from Harrison.
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