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City Living: White Plains
Despite its current reputation around Westchester as the county's shopping center, White Plains was once home to a Native American tribe and later, the site of a Revolutionary War battle.
The area was known as Quarropas until traders renamed it "the White Plains" after either the white balsam that grew there or the misty whiteness near the river's swampland.
Today, White Plains, the...
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