Croton-on-Hudson, residential village (10 sq mi/26 sq km; 1990 pop. 7,018), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on E bank of Hudson R., 3 mi/4.8 km N of Ossining; 41°12'N 73°53'W. Mfg. (machinery, industrial diamonds; metal fabrication). Seat of Hessian Hills School. Includes Amtrak and Metro-North RR yards. During 1920s, fashionable haven for intellectuals, e.g., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Doris Stevens, Stuart Chase, and John Reed. Van Cortlandt Manor, a restored 18th-cent. Du.-Eng. manor house on 20 acres/8 ha of what was once 86,000-acres/34,804-ha estate is located here. Settled 1609, inc. 1898.
