Editing Tuckahoe (village), New York (section)

==History==

===Industry and growth===
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[[File:Tuckahoe Village.JPG|thumb|Village square and downtown]]

The name "Tuckahoe," meaning “it is globular," was a general term used by the Native Americans of the region when describing various bulbous roots which were used as food. Throughout the 1700s and 1800s, Tuckahoe was a rural, minor community which was part of the larger town of Eastchester. It was not until the early nineteenth century that Tuckahoe first became a semi-prominent part of the New York Metropolitan Area upon the discovery of vast, high-quality, white [[marble]] deposits near the Bronx River by Scottish businessman [[Alexander Masterson]].<ref>[http://www.themastertons.org/alexander-masterton-quarry-owner.html The Mastersons]</ref> Through the use of his financial wealth and influence, Masterson started Tuckahoe's marble industry, its first quarry in 1812. The high quality of "Tuckahoe Marble" was in great demand, quickly transforming the once quiet village into the "marble capital of the world".<ref>[http://www.eastchester.org/regional_info/history.html Town Eastchester - Local History]</ref> In the 1840s, to serve quarry owners who transported marble to the city, the [[New York and Harlem Railroad]] opened two train depots in Tuckahoe. The booming industry drew succeeding waves of German, Irish and Italian immigrant workers, and, after the Civil War, African-Americans who migrated from the South.<ref>[http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Here-Comes-the-Train-1850-8-15-2008.pdf Here Comes the Train Circa 1850]</ref> The Tuckahoe quarries produced heavily for almost a century before supplies dwindled and the industry ended.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/realestate/06Living-tuckahoe.html?pagewanted=all Holding on to Tradition, and Independence NY Times]</ref> The village's [[Immaculate Conception Church (Tuckahoe, New York)|Church of the Immaculate Conception]] was constructed for the predominantly Catholic population using Tuckahoe Marble.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Present Church|url=http://www.assumption-immaculate.org/icc/icc_history_21-30.pdf|website=ICC History|access-date=September 26, 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Tuckahoe quarry ny monument 2009.png|thumb|right|Descriptive monument at Tuckahoe Quarry]]

During the 1920s Burroughs Wellcome (now part of [[GlaxoSmithKline]]) established research and manufacturing facilities on Scarsdale Road on land acquired from the Hodgman Rubber Company,<ref name=TriCent>Tricentennial Committee. [http://eastchester350.org/350/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/History-of-the-town-1964.pdf 1664-1964 The Story of a Town]</ref>{{rp|18}}<ref>The Eastchester Citizen-Bulletin, November 19, 1924 [http://news.hrvh.org/veridian/cgi-bin/senylrc?a=d&d=theeastchester19241119.1.2 Page 2]</ref><ref>[[Peter Pennoyer]] and Anne Walker. The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 {{ISBN|9780393730876}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PfsvwzwaQqUC&pg=PA188 Page 188]</ref> and for many years was a leading industry in Tuckahoe<ref name=TriCent/> until the company moved to [[Research Triangle Park]] in North Carolina in 1971.<ref>Triangle Modernist Houses Press release. October 8, 2012 [http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ Iconic Burroughs Wellcome Headquarters Open for Rare Public Tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331011246/http://recentpast.org/iconic-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-open-for-rare-public-tour/ |date=March 31, 2016 }}</ref>  The Nobel Prize winning scientists [[Gertrude B. Elion]] and [[George H. Hitchings]] worked there and invented drugs still used many years later, such as the cancer and autoimmune disease suppressant [[mercaptopurine]].<ref>Katherine Bouton for the New York Times. January 29, 1989 [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/the-nobel-pair.html?pagewanted=all The Nobel Pair]</ref>