Harrison is a town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located 22 miles northeast of Manhattan. The population was 28,218 at the 2020 census. Harrison was established in 1696 by a patent granted by the British government to John Harrison and three others, who had a year earlier bargained with loca…Harrison is a town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located 22 miles northeast of Manhattan. The population was 28,218 at the 2020 census. Harrison was established in 1696 by a patent granted by the British government to John Harrison and three others, who had a year earlier bargained with local Native Americans to purchase an area of land above Westchester Path, an old trail that led from Manhattan to Port Chester and below Rye Lake. Local custom holds that Harrison was given 24 hours to ride his horse around the area he could claim, and the horse could not swim or did not want to get its feet wet, but this is folklore. In fact, the land below Westchester Path and along Long Island Sound had already been purchased and partly developed by the settlers of Rye, New York.
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