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It is good to compare the 1777 map and the 1887 maps together.
The 1777 map has the Bronx River to far west, along with the Hutchinson Rive
The Old Boston Post Road, along with the Miles Square Road, is too far South.
Nick, As I mentioned the other night – the OLD Boston Post road up the hill ( Heath Ave) from The Kingsbridge was steep and after passing Ft Independence heads a little Southeast & downhill to the Bronx river. Going along Bailey Ave from Heath to “Mosholu” and /or Up Broadway to the Van Cortlandt Mansion and meeting up with “Mosholu Cut Through” aka Miles Square Road that meets the Fordham Ridge at Jerome Ave and 233rd St. Basically…. At VC Mansion, taking the Major Deegan to 233rd and Van Cortlandt Ave East ( AKA Miles Square Road) North onto Kimball Ave east of the Yonkers reservoir. This way GW stays on the high ground above the Bronx River vs Webster Ave and Bronx River Road ( Yonkers ) along the Bronx River.
Glad you found this movie that mentioned the Spuyten Duyvil Station. Historical and very entertaining.
These maps show the only group of houses that match the three under the el, just South of W.236th St. In 1915
Those houses were under the El on the Westside of Broadway. It had to be South of W242nd and North of W23oth.
The El breaks away from Broadway just after W218th and few old houses north to W230th
Too Bad the camera was not rolling in 1783
on November 16, 1783, General George Washington and Governor of New York George Clinton reclaimed Fort Washington on the northwest corner of Manhattan Island and then led the Continental Army in a triumphal procession march down the road through the center of the island onto Broadway in the Town to the Battery.[25] The evening of Evacuation Day, Clinton hosted a public dinner at Fraunces Tavern, which Washington attended. It concluded with thirteen toasts, according to a contemporary account in Rivington’s Gazette,
The west Side Lawn club is shown on the map previously sent.
The Large image of the Tennis Club is clearly near the end stop of the train station at W. 242nd street.
The Photo may have come from a parks dept annual
Not to add to the confusion, but here is a photograph from 1911 at a tennis match of the West Side Lawn Tennis Club.
Plus an other view of the Tennis House at Van Cortlandt Park in 1905
I wonder how the Author, Mary E. Kane’s in “Yesterday in Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil” knew of this story. The only similar link I could find was a Bronx woman with the same name was divorced from Julius Miert on Oct 30th 1914
The Stockbridge Indians had been scouting the area for some time. Back in the previous month, the Stockbridge brigade surprised Lt. Emmerick and almost captured him . The report of this action embarrassed the British and resulted in the Simco plan to Amish the Stockbridge Indians.
– “The Northwest Bronx” by Bill Twomey & Thomas X. Casey
