Mount Kisco Train Station

In his book “The History of Mount Kisco” from 1883, E. Clarence Hyatt describes the galloping of the “iron horse” to Mount Kisco:

In the latter part of the year 1845 the Harlem R. R. Co., in the extension of its line of railway from New York City through Westchester County, began the construction of their road along the low-lands skirting the broken and irregular line of Chappaqua hills and by Kisco mountain, and in the early part of the spring of 1847, the cars were running as far as Mount Kisco. There were at first four passenger trains daily — fare 75 cents to New York. The first appearance of a locomotive in the immediate vicinity of Mount Kisco was in the latter part of the winter of 1846 and 7, when the track was being laid on the newly graded road. People living along the line of the road flocked to the adjoining hills to see the locomotive and cars go by, and on the arrival of incoming trains a crowd of persons were waiting at the station to see the "iron horse."