Mamaroneck: Sound Town, Sinatra's Hometown

Mamaroneck takes its name from a Lenape word, sometimes translated as 'the place where the fresh water falls into the salt.' The Siwanoy people lived here for thousands of years before the Englishman John Richbell bought the land in sixteen sixty-one. The town's harbor on Long Island Sound made it a modest fishing and shipping port through the colonial period.

In the twentieth century it became one of the commuter towns of New York's Westchester County, with a train to Grand Central and a marina full of sailboats. James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote The Last of the Mohicans, married his wife, Susan De Lancey, here in eighteen eleven. The town today is a mix of the old harbor district and the Long Island Sound waterfront.