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Back at you. ( ps The Unions of Morrisania, Bronx NY were 1867 World Champions )
September 27, 1914
Civil war between Manhattan and Brooklyn is impending as a consequence of the baseball game played yesterday afternoon at Hedley Field, at the 242d Street end of the Subway, between the Car Shops team, champions of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s League, and a picked team from the league of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
The Russians expected to spy on the US and the various UN embassies from this elevated location in Riverdale. What the Russians did not realize is that the FBI setup in an apartment at Skyview apartments on west 259th & Arlington Ave for a direct line to the Russian Mission to spy on them !
This map from 1896 may help –Plate 279 ( Bronx, V. 12, Plate No. 279 [Map bounded by Broadway, W., 236th St., Fieldston Rd.] )
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Nick, I also think that the disappearance of the structures next to the Van Cortlandt Mansion is extremely important evidence. I wish we could identify many more of the local owners during 1776
This map shows a few houses along the Old Boston Post Road, below Fort Independence, Leading down Kingsbridge Terrance to
Albany Crescent.This is an other map that has the Forts. ( #4 is placed at Sedwick Ave and Reservoir Ave with a Plaque)
From George Washington to Robert R. Livingston, 20 October 1776 To Robert R. Livingston Notes from the National Archives. “GW apparently wrote this letter at Isaac Low’s house, which was adjacent to recently constructed Fort Independence in Westchester County about a mile northeast of King’s Bridge or, in present-day terms, near the south end of Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx. The British army dismantled Low’s house later in the war to obtain materials for building and repairing barracks at Laurel Hill on Manhattan Island ” This description could also place the Low’s residence at below ( South ) of Fort Independence between Sedwick Ave and Jerome Ave at Kingsbridge Road.
the original survey maps, that I found at the Huntington Free Library, 9 Westchester Square. ( read above)
The red circle is the location the HFL intersection of property lines and the location of a granite monument. It is in fact labeled ” Monument “
It is great when you have any of the original survey maps, that I found at the Huntington Free Library, 9 Westchester Square. We also wondered what that granite block was that we uncovered on our property. Back in 1880 when the executors of the Van Schaick Estate ( his will ordered a Library built to honor his predeceased wife ) were assembling the various lots to be purchased from the Adee Estate, the monument is labeled on the lot line corner. When I find the picture of the monument buried in the ground, just like the others,
I will post it.
has lost its architectural beauty many years ago.