Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.
As you know, Gloria Swanson was of the village's most notable residents. We stumbled across a more detailed article on her home in Croton. Click on the 1924 images below. Swanson would leave for Hollywood a few years later. THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: JUNE 1927 GLORIA SWANSON LEAVES CROTON FOR HOLLYWOOD
In a book about Joe Kennedy-RFK's father-one chapter describes the large car garage on the Croton home property that Joe Kennedy stashed his bootleg booze in because the garage had a vault in it. I went to an estate sale there and sure enough there was a bank vault in the garage !
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