TOWN OF NORTH CASTLE - TOWN HISTORY
by Doris Finch Watson
Town of North Castle Historian
Early Town History

The first North Castle Town Meeting was held on April 6, 1736.  The Town was incorporated on March 7, 1788 when the State of New York passed an act for dividing the counties of the state into towns:

"And that all that part of the said county of Westchester, bounded southerly by Mount Pleasant, the White Plains, the Town of Harrison and Connecticut, easterly by Connecticut, Pound Ridge and Before, northerly by the Manor of Cortland and Bedford, and westerly by Bronx River and Mount Pleasant, shall be and hereby is erected into a town by the name of North Castle."

North Castle was once much larger than it is today.  In 1791 it was divided in half and the upper portion was named New Castle.