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The photo was from 2004 but I have brushed the leaves around the area recently and found the same stones. See article attached
This is very shocking….I was not aware of the mis-management of these headstones. I wonder if our local leaders are aware ?
I have posted a picture of the burial plot before the recent removal of the headstones
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Blie Bell[/caption]Yes…The Blue Bell was along the old Kingsbridge Road or ” Broadway ” in Manhattan
Southern Pacific Railroad, one of the great American railroad systems, established in 1861 by the “big four” of western railroad building—Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded by a group of businessmen led by Timothy Phelps.
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View of Spuyten Duyvil creek from a Valentine Manuel[/caption]A view from the top of the railroad cut to Where the Broadway Bridge will later be built
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School map 1868[/caption]Acording to Rev Tieck School Days Riverdale Kingsbridge and Spuyten Duyvil, the school house was locaed near Piece St off Kingsbridge Road/ Spuyten Duyvil Road in 1857. It is clearly on his map from 1865 on page 34-35 “map of Village of Spuyen Duyvil ” Vol 3, Page 8. I have attached a similar map from 1868 with the school circled
Yes….according to the
Iron Molders’ Journal – Volume 33 – Page 540 1897, Moulder Henry McCauley was suspendedOne Listing from 1884 has Hugh McCauley on the West side of Spuyten Duyvil Road
Map from 1884 has a few houses along Kingsbridge Road and Spuyten Duvil Road ( both areas are now built up with schools on the east side of these streets. Along the west side of Spuyten Duyvil Road is appx Palisades ave today. A trip to the real estate office will help. I use the Westchester County clerks office first, before going to the Bronx Office.
see NYPL digital collection https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9ac25672-06b3-3ba0-e040-e00a1806439f
I always use the NYPL Digital collections first, searching on ” spuyten duyvil road ” and I got back map
Double Page Plate No. 44, Part of Ward 24, Section 13 which you can zoom in on.
The url is https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-7823-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The 225th st address may have been renumbered, since 225th street is both in Marble Hill, near Broadway and in Spuyten Duyvil
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Jacbus Van Cortlandt Slave reward[/caption]Many Bodies were diinterred from the DYCKMAN-NAGEL CEMETERY located in Inwood. I am sure there were many African American burials nearby this site. Maps from the early 1900s indicate that the cemetery was bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 212th and 213th Streets in Inwood.
I can think of 31 that I have, but then again I only collect Bronx Postcards ! Was it the edgehill you just saw ?
Bailey Avenue, Looking South from West 230 St
Broadway and 230th Street as it looked in 1890
Bronx Catholic Orphan Asylum (for Girls), Sedwick Avenue & Kingsbridge Road, N.Y.City
Church of the Mediator, Kings Bridge Ave, Kings Bridge, NY
Convent of Jesus Mary, Church St, Kings Bridge, NY
Dutch Garden at Van Cortlandt Park
Elmhurst Residence of Mr. G.P. Morosini, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
Engine Co. 52, N.Y. Fire Department, Kings Bridge
Engine Company, 81, N.Y.F.D., Kings Bridger, NY
Hadley’s or Farmers’ Bridge, Harlem River & Kings Bridge Road
Historic Kings Bridge of Revolutionary Days
Kings Bridge Police Station, 40 Precinct, Boston Avenue
Lake & Boat House, Van Cortlandt Park
Looking West from Webb Academy, towards the Palisades, Kings Bridge, NY
Old Godwin Mansion, 228 St Broadway
Old Kings Bridge Hotel. A Popular Road House of Former Days
Old Station of the NY Central RR at KingsBridge
Old Van Cortlandt Mansion, Van Cortlandt Park
Power House, Looking South from 225 St & Broadway
Presbyterian Chapel at Spuyten Duyvil,NY
Prison Window from the Old Sugar House, in Van Cortlandt Park
Private Residence, Spuyten Duyvil on Hudson
PS No. 7 – Kings Bridge, N.Y.
Scene in Dashe’s Lane, Van Cortlandt, NYC
Seton Hospital, Riverdale Ave, Spuyten Duyvil, NY
St Stephen’s ME Church, Marble Hill, Kings Bridge
Temporary Terminus of Subway at 230 St, Kingsbridge, NYC
Hagman’s Tree, Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson, New York City
New York Public Library, Kings Bridge Branch
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. ( for Girls) Sedwick ave and Kingsbridge Road NYC
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Paul Revere Invoice[/caption]This image comes from the book 1909 – The Life of Colonel Paul Revere, Volume 1
By Elbridge Henry GossI have a few 1874 prints of the Kings Bridge which shows a small coach going north across Spuyten Duyvil Creek and over the Kings Bridge. You can see McCombs Tavern and lodge in the background. Not much had changed in this area since 1776.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens lived at Wave Hill, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx from October 1, 1902 until July 1903. They did take a break at a summer cottage in York Harbor , Maine for the summer of 1902. Olivia was very sick and needed to return home in Riverdale. As per doctors recommendation, a warmer climate led to a move to Italy, where she died June 5, 1904. Their son Langdon died after 19 months in June of 1872 and daughter Susan at age 24 in 1896, later Jean died at age 29 in 1909. Their daughter Clara Langhorne Clemens Gabrilowitsch June 8, 1874 – November 19, 1962 inherited the family estate.
Mark Twain & his family lived in the Bronx……and are still in New York, all buried at Woodlawn Cemetery!
ssshhh ( Woodlawn in Elmira NY )
Harriet Hayden inherited the property from her father, from the Honorable James R. Whiting. James Raynor Whiting (April 30, 1803 – March 16, 1872) Lawyer and Politician. 1872 Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY Mr. Whiting owned the property since 1836. ( per will summary 1922 ). On May 4, 1922 it was reported in the New York Tribune that the first lot offered for sale, a curved lot was purchased by Mrs. C. Andrews for $1,000 located on Spuyten Duyvil Parkway and Fairfield Ave. Probably near the Ewen Estate which was located on the block bounded by W. 231st Street, Spuyten Duyvil Parkway Fairfield Ave and W. 232st Street.
