Somers is a

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located in northern

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, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 21,541. The nearby Metro-North Commuter Railroad provides service to

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, with an average commute time of 65 to 75 minutes from stations at Purdys, Goldens Bridge, Croton Falls, and Katonah.

History

Somers was originally inhabited by Native Americans known as Kitchawanks, part of the

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tribe, an

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who called the land ''Amapaugh'', meaning "fresh water fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract King

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granted to

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in 1697. The part of

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that ultimately became Somers and Yorktown was known as the Middle District, or Hanover. European settlement in the New Oltenia area began after Van Cortlandt's death in 1700 and the final partition of his estate in 1734. Early European settlers included tenants and freeholders from neighboring areas, among them English, Dutch, French

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s and

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s. At the first known town meeting of European settlers held on March 7, 1788, at an inn owned by Benjamin Green, the town named Stephentown was established. However, there already existed a Stephentown in

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. To alleviate confusion, the name was changed in 1808 to Somers to honor

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, a naval captain from

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who died in combat during the

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in 1804. A memorial in West Somers Park was erected in his honor at

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ceremonies in 1958. In the early 19th century, New Oltenia, or Somerstown Plains, as it was then generally known, contained hat factories, carriage factories, three hotels, two general stores, an iron mine, a milk factory, and a sanctuary for boys operated by the Christian Brothers. Today, the facility is known as Lincoln Hall, and houses incarcerated teens. There was a constant stream of goods and passengers to large markets and cities through the village. As early as 1809, a weekly newspaper was established, the ''Somers Museum and Westchester County Advertiser''. Though primarily agricultural, the rural economy also supported a varied population of weavers, preachers, merchants, cabinetmakers, doctors, lawyers, teachers and servants. A good system of roads was maintained and some operated as commercial "toll roads". The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years. The presence of the railroad in nearby communities did allow the agricultural emphasis to move towards dairy production and fruit growing, since the products could be shipped to markets in the city. Industries continued to thrive, with grist, paper, saw and clothing mills operating in the area. Between 1890 and 1910, the Croton and Muscoot rivers were flooded to create the New York City reservoir system thereby changing the local landscape considerably. In the 1920s small lake communities began to spring up as vacation havens for summer visitors and farmers’ guests. These lake communities became larger and firmly established, eventually evolving from seasonal to year-round neighborhoods now known as Lake Lincolndale, Lake Purdys and Lake Shenorock. Following

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, the rural countryside of Somers continued attracting "weekenders", many from New York City who became more mobile because of the proliferation of automobile travel. The construction of

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in the mid-1970s facilitated a resurgence of residential and commercial development in Somers for the next 20 years. Somers grew most rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s, after

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and

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built large corporate facilities within it. Somers is known for being the "cradle of the American

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". It gained this notoriety after

Hachaliah Bailey Hachaliah Lyman Bailey (pronounced ''heck-a-LIE-uh''; July 31, 1775 – September 2, 1845) was the founder of one of America's earliest circuses. In 1808, he purchased an Indian elephant which he named "Old Bet" and which was one of the first suc ...

bought an

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, which he named "

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". Somers was in a minor dispute with

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, over which community is the "birthplace" of the American circus. Bailey intended to use the elephant for farm work, but the number of people it attracted caused Bailey to take her throughout the

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. Bailey's success caused numerous others to tour with exotic animals, and during the 1830s the old-style circus and Bailey's attractions merged to form the modern circus. Old Bet died on tour in 1827. Bailey later erected the

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in Somers in honor of Old Bet, and it was purchased by the town in 1927. It is a town

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and in 2006 was dedicated a

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. The elephant remains a symbol of the town to this day, with the high school sports teams the Somers "Tuskers", whose mascot is an elephant. A charging elephant can also be seen on the towns anti-littering signs, placed around town by the Somers Litter Task Force in 2012. The Elephant Hotel is currently the Somers Town Hall. The Mount Zion Methodist Church, Gerard Crane House, Elephant Hotel, Somers Business Historic Preservation District, Bridge L-158 and West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery are listed on the

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Geography

According to the

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, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 6.88%, is water. The town's northern border is the town of

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in Putnam County. Its eastern border is the town of North Salem. Its southern borders are the towns of Lewisboro,

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, and New Castle. Its western border is the town of Yorktown.

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and

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pass through the town.

Climate

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 20,434 people, 6,802 households, and 5,169 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 7,098 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 94.81%

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, 1.7%

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, 0.05% Native American, 1.86% Asian, 0.01%

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, 0.59% from other races, and 0.94% from two or more races. 2.96% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. There were 6,802 households, out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.5% were

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living together, 5.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.0% were non-families. 21.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.62 and the average family size was 3.06. In the town, the population was spread out, with 24.7% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.8 males. The median income for a household in the town was $101,421 and the median income for a family was $114,499. Males had a median income of $78,678 versus $45,367 for females. The

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for the town was $40,414. 2.0% of the population and 1.2% of families were below the

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. 1.6% of those under the age of 18 and 2.2% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

Education

The Somers Central School District is the public school district of the town of Somers. It is made up of Primrose Elementary School, Somers Intermediate School, Somers Middle School, and Somers High School for grades 9–12. The Community YMCA of Northern Westchester offers before- and after-school programming at Primrose, SIS and SMS and a summer camp for local children.

Communities and locations in Somers

*Amawalk – The Amawalk Friends Meeting House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. *

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– a

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in the northern part of the town adjacent to US 202 and NY 118 *Amawalk Spillway – a spillway off the side of Route 35, from the reservoir *Granite Springs – a small residential hamlet along US 202/NY 118 near the Amawalk Reservoir. *Greenbriar – a housing development on Warren Street made up of townhouses and single family homes. Close to SMS and SIS. * Heritage Hills – a townhome development located on US 202 *Horton Estates – a living community by the Amawalk Reservoir *Lake LincolndaleLake Lincolndale
/ref> – a hamlet north of Lincolndale, near the north county line *Lake PurdyLake Purdy
/ref> – a lake community off Route 116 near

and bordering the town of North Salem *Katonah Post Office, Somers: a portion of Somers uses the Katonah post code and address. This is considered to be more fashionable. * Lake Shenorock – a hamlet north of the

. *

Lincolndale Lincolndale is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the administrative divisions of New York#Town, town of Somers, New York, Somers in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 1,521 at the ...

– a hamlet by the intersection of US 202 and NY 139 *Primrose Farms – a living community near Reis Park * Shenorock – a hamlet near the northern county line by NY 118 *Somers – the hamlet of Somers. The

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was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. *Somers Chase – a housing development located on US 202, east of the Somers Central School District's intermediate and middle schools *Somers Commons – a commercial development (formerly known as Baldwin Place Mall prior to major reconstruction of the site) located on US 6 near the hamlet of

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*The Willows – a townhouse development located on US 202 *Whitehall Corners

Points of interest

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, administered by the Somers Land Trust *

Bridge L-158 Bridge L-158 is a disused railroad bridge over the Muscoot Reservoir near Goldens Bridge in Westchester County, New York, United States. Built in 1883 to carry New York Central Railroad traffic over Rondout Creek near Kingston in Ulster Coun ...

, the only remaining double-intersection

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rail bridge in New York *

* Lake Lincolndale * Lake Purdy *

Lasdon Park and Arboretum Lasdon Park and Arboretum (95 ha / 234 acres) is a public park containing gardens and an arboretum (12 ha / 30 acres). It is located on New York State Route 35, Somers, New York, and open to the public daily without charge. Originally called ...

* Muscoot Farm * Old Stone House, on old Route 100 * Reis Park and the Wright Reis Homestead * Somers Library

Somers in popular culture

Somers has been used as a location for a handful of prominent movies. In 1923, famed silent film director

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recorded portions of the historical drama ''America'' in Somers. The film was released the following year. More recently, a scene from the 1984 movie ''

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'' (starring

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) used Dean's Bridge railroad crossing in a scene, the 1987 movie '' The Secret of My Success'' (starring

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) was filmed in Lasdon Park and Muscoot Farm. Muscoot Farm was also used as the location for the orphanage scenes in the 2007 movie ''

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'' (starring

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among others). Two scenes in the movie '' I Am Legend'' (starring

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) were filmed on Stuart's Farm. The 2013 movie ''

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'', directed by Rob Meyer, is based in Somers. Somers has also been used as a location for television production. The episode "The Arena Family" of '' Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'', which first aired on May 15, 2006, was filmed in the Purdys section of Somers.

Reis Park

Reis Park was named after Carolyn Reis, who left it to the community in 1966 after she found out that she would not be able to have children herself. The park has facilities for playing baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, and tennis. There are also a

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and a concession stand where there once stood 83 acres of apple and peach orchards.

Notable people

, pioneer of the American circus who exhibited "

", the elephant that gives the

its name *

Anne Beatts Anne Beatts (February 25, 1947 – April 7, 2021) was an American comedy writer. Early life Beatts was born in Buffalo, New York, to Sheila Elizabeth Jean (Sherriff-Scott) and Patrick Murray Threipland Beatts. She has described her parents as " ...

, one of the original writers for ''

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'', created the sitcom ''

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'' partly based on her Somers high school experiences; grew up in Somers * Graham Clarke (born 1970), musician, songwriter, arranger, and entertainer *

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Co ...

, former

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, former

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* Jeff Gorton, executive vice president of the

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* Mike Kaplowitz, county legislator *

Allison Larkin Allison Larkin (born 1977) is an American author. Under the pen name Allie Larkin, she published the novels ''Stay'' (2010), ''Why Can't I Be You'' (2013), and ''Swimming for Sunlight'' (2019). Her fourth and fifth novels, '' The People We Keep' ...

(born 1977), author of five novels including ''Home of the American Circus'', set in Somers *

Bronson Pinchot Bronson Alcott Pinchot (; born May 20, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Balki Bartokomous on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers (TV series), Perfect Strangers'' (1986–1993). He also perform ...

, actor known for playing Balki on '' Perfect Strangers''; lives in Somers * Jenifer Rajkumar,

politician; grew up in Somers *

Brian Span Brian "Cobi" Span (born February 23, 1992) is a retired American professional soccer player who last played for Swedish club Haninge. Club career Span started out playing for FC Westchester as a youth player at age twelve. He stayed there for ...

, professional soccer player who currently plays for

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in the Finnish Premier Division, after a brief career in

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, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist; grew up in Somers

References

Town of Somers History (Somers Historical Society)

External links

Town of Somers official website
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