page_title: Timeline of Briarcliff Manor
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Briarcliff Manor / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of Briarcliff Farm, James Stillman's property in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
context_page_description: The history of Briarcliff Manor, a village in Westchester County, New York, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement between the Hudson and Pocantico Rivers in the 19th century. The area now known as Briarcliff Manor had seen human occupation since at least the Archaic period, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into the village did not occur until the Industrial Revolution. The village, which was incorporated with one square mile in 1902, has expanded primarily through annexation: of Scarborough in 1906 and from the town of Mount Pleasant in 1927 to its current area of 6.7 square miles. The village has also grown in population; from 331 when established to 7,867 in the 2010 census.
context_section_description: 1839: Briarcliff Manor's oldest church, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, is founded.
  1854: All Saints' Episcopal Church is founded.
  1864: Weskora is renamed Scarborough.
  1865: A one-room schoolhouse is built on land donated by John Whitson; it is the first schoolhouse and church in the area.
  1880: The Whitson's Corners station is added to the New York City & Northern Railroad train schedule, and the first train arrives on December 13.
  1881: The Whitson's Corners post office is established.
  1890: Walter W. Law moves with his family to the area and purchases his first 236 acres (96 ha) with the James Stillman farm for $35,000 ($995,900 in 2019).
  1891: Congregation Sons of Israel is formed by eleven men in Ossining.
  1892: Elliott Fitch Shepard ordered the construction of Scarborough's first dock at the present Scarborough Park to allow construction materials to be shipped to his property.
  October 13, 1893: The Scarborough Presbyterian Church is founded.
  1895: Elliott Fitch Shepard's mansion Woodlea is completed.
  1896: Briarcliff Congregational Church is built to replace the congregation's use of the schoolhouse.
  1897: The post office is renamed the Briarcliff Manor Post Office.
  August 4, 1898: The first Scarborough train station and post office is struck by lightning and burns down.
  1900: Law owns more than 5,000 acres (7.8 sq mi) of Westchester County, and becomes the largest individual landholder in the county.
  1900: Law establishes the School of Practical Agriculture on Pleasantville Road on 66 acres (0.1 sq mi).
caption: Illustration of James Stillman's farm c. 1886.[nb 1]
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