Identifier: parksparkwaysinb1914maca (find matches)
Title: Parks and parkways in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: MacAdam, George Bronx Board of Trade
Subjects: Urban parks
Publisher: New York : Bronx Board of Trade
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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ntil he had succeeded in inflicting heavylosses on the enemy and detaining it long enough for Washington toreach White Plains in safety. Split Rock is a gigantic boulder, cleft squarely in two, a good sizedtree growing in the crevice. Tradition states that the home of AnnHutchinson (for whom the Hutchinson River is named) stood somewherenear the spring a few yards south of the boulder. She settled here in1642 with her younger children and her son-in-law. In the same year,her cabin was burned by the Indians, and all but one of her family werekilled. Her eight-year-old daughter escaped but was captured. Some sayshe perished on the crest of Split Rock. Directly opposite the point where the Split Rock Road enters theShore Road, a lane leads down to the waters edge through the Bartowplace, to the ancient burial-place of the Pell family, in which several ofthe manor-lords are buried. The plot is surrounded by a fence withsquare granite posts at each corner. Upon each of these posts there 46
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is carved a pelican, the crest of the Pell family, and also upon each adifferent inscription. The oldest gravestone is inscribed: HER LYESISEC PELL D. DEC. 14, ANNO 1748. Nearby, there used to stand the stump of a fine oak tree, said to bethe identical tree under whose branches the original proprietor, ThomasPell, bought from the Indian sachems the land in the vicinity. Thestump was protected by an iron fence, but fire destroyed the stump andnothing now remains but the fence. CROTONA PARK. Area.—This park has an area of 154.60 acres. Means of Access.—Harlem Division of New York Central Rail-road ; alight Claremont Park Station; walk east four blocks. Third Avenue Railway; alight Claremont Parkway; walk one blockeast. Special Features.—This park is located in a very populous districtand near several large schools. It is well wooded, containing severalgroves of fine old trees. Indian Lake is used for boating in summerand skating in winter. It has a large, fully equipped athletic f

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