The former Sixth Grade School and Yorktown High School, formerly called Central District School #2, is now the Yorktown Albert A. Capellini Community & Cultural Center. It was originally built in response to the growth of population in Yorktown in the early 20th century caused by the arrival of the New York Putnam Railroad. This neoclassical and Georgian inspired school building currently houses several town offices as well as the town museum, YCCC Theatre, and other community programs.

This One Room Schoolhouse was built in the early 1820s and once served as the District #6 School for Yorktown, one of 12 one room schoolhouses in the town. In the 1880s, a population boom in Yorktown caused the need for one room schoolhouses to be replaced with more modern schools and in 1924, the District #6 schoolhouse was converted into the colonial-style home that stands today.

The Old Croton Dam, built to supply New York City with clean water after a series of disease outbreaks and unattended fires threatened the city’s growing population in the 1830s, was the first large masonry dam built in the United States. Begun in 1837 and completed in 1842 under chief engineer John Bloomfield Jervis, the 670-foot long dam stretched 57 feet above the ground. The dam, and the 400-acre reservoir of the Croton River in Yorktown in northern Westchester County that it created, connected to a receiving reservoir in Manhattan’s Central Park and finally a distribution reservoir on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (where the New York Public Library presently stands) via the 42-mile Old Croton Aqueduct, which ran mostly underground. In 1893, the Old Croton Aqueduct was replaced with a newer one, and in 1906, less than seventy years after it was built, the Old Croton Dam was submerged in order to create a larger one of almost double the size. The site of the Old Croton Dam was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and the Old Croton Aqueduct was added in 1974.

The Davenport House is the only surviving structure in Westchester Country which was held by Continental troops throughout the Revolutionary War as a command post. The property was the command post for Colonel Christopher Greene and the 1st Rhode Island Regiment and was the site of the Battle of Pines Bridge in 1781.

Once a cobbler’s workshop which produced and sold shoes throughout Westchester County and New Jersey, this 19th century Queen Anne style mansion became the country home of one of the early 20th century’s greatest stage actors, Lewis Morrison. Morrison struggled with his identity as a Black and Jewish man during and after the Civil War and found a home on stage. Morrison’s portrayal of Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust was legendary. He performed all over America and Europe and earned worldwide acclaim for his talent. His family continued to own this stately home for years after his death.

The Yorktown Heights Railroad Station was the town center in the 1880s, surrounded by five stores, a library, a hotel, two locksmiths, a wheelwright, and two churches. The Yorktown Heights station remained in service until the Putnam Division finally shut down on May 29, 1958. It was initially sold for commercial use but became vacant, and in 1966 the Town of Yorktown purchased it. The interior was rebuilt in 1976, and the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce occupied the building until 1982, when a fire forced it to close. The exterior has been renovated in recent years and the surrounding area is landscaped. It now serves as the visual centerpiece of a park that occupies much of the old railroad yard. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

The Monument to the First Rhode Island Regiment serves as a tribute to the efforts of the historic group of soldiers during the Battle of Pine’s Bridge. Erected in 1982 following support from John H. Harmon, the founder of the Afro-American Cultural Foundation, the monument honors the importance of the regiment to the history of African Americans. The monument was added to the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County in 2004. It is one of the 13 sites to feature on the trail.

This 18th-century homestead was home to members of the Strang family, one of the earliest families to settle in Yorktown. During the Revolutionary War, the Strang family was an example of the divisions that existed in Westchester at the time. While some family members supported the American cause of liberty, others supported the British Crown.

The present Amawalk Friends Meeting House was built in 1831 on a site that has been used for Quaker meetings since about 1760. Two previous meeting houses had been destroyed by fire in 1779 and 1830. The meeting house has changed little since it was first constructed, and is a rare surviving example of an early 19th-century Friends meeting house. The 2.9 acre property on which the meeting house stands also includes a burial ground that dates to the 18th century and a First Day School that was completed in 1987.

This church was built in the early 20th-century and serves as a significant example of Romanesque Revival ecclesiastical architecture in Westchester County. Its construction was financed by Aimee LaFarge-Heins as a memorial to her late husband George Louis Heins and her brother, notable American artist John F. LaFarge. It was one of three Catholic mission churches in the area of Yorktown. While the exterior of the church remains mostly unchanged, significant remodeling has been done to the interior to facilitate its current use as a wine bar.