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Photo: M. Aumann
Dusenberry Farm/Sherwood
Chapel (1797)1 253 Underhill Road.
The second oldest house in Crestwood was
originally set on the site of the present Asbury Church. It was
built in 1797 by Silas Crawford on land bought from Moses and Tamer
Sherwood for $25. In 1865, when the second Asbury Church was
erected, it was moved across the road to where it still stands at
253 Underhill, replete with many of its original hand hewn
floorboards. At that time it was bought by Charles Dusenberry, who
housed his farmhands in it. In 1921 it was sold to the Davenports,
then to the Langhans family in 1955 and is owned by the Hogans since
1994.
Known locally2 as
the Sherwood Chapel, it was one of the first in the United States to
house the Methodist Society founded by Francis Asbury. He traveled nearly
300,000 throughout the United States and the Eastern seaboard to
bring civic, personal and religious freedom to our newly-found
country.
This artist's rendition from an old real estate
brochure shows the old Pump House that once stood on the property at
approximately the intersection of what is now Underhill Road and
Scarsdale Road. It supplied the area with water via a water tower
behind the Hartmann house.
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1. Research and text by Marguerite
Aumann
2. In the late 1700’s "locally"
encompassed Eastchester, parts of New Rochelle and much of Eastern
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