. The borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913; its marvelous development and historical surroundings. 1 is THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX West of Webster Avenue and almost opposite the Union Rail- way car barns on the old Hyatt farm, stands an unpretentious one-and-a-half-story building that played an important part in the early days of the Revolution, and in which Washington when hard pressed and in danger of Lord Howe's and General Von Knyphausen's advance from Pell's Point, thought it prudent to store some of his cannon so that he could make quicker progress in his retreat to White Plains. The house is k
. The borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913; its marvelous development and historical surroundings. 1 is THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX West of Webster Avenue and almost opposite the Union Rail- way car barns on the old Hyatt farm, stands an unpretentious one-and-a-half-story building that played an important part in the early days of the Revolution, and in which Washington when hard pressed and in danger of Lord Howe's and General Von Knyphausen's advance from Pell's Point, thought it prudent to store some of his cannon so that he could make quicker progress in his retreat to White Plains. The house is known today as "Washington's Gun House," while the adjoining settlement was called Washington's Gun House When the land hereabouts was still the uninvaded country of the Indians, the copper-skinned maidens of the Stockbridge braves of the Algonquins, who lived in a neighboring village, selected as a trysting place an immense rock under a group of willow trees on the bank of the Bronx River. It is said that at this beautiful spot one of the fairest daughters of the Stockbridge tribe was wooed by the son of an Algonquin chieftain and that when he carried her off as his bride the boulder was named the "Wishing ; After the white men had driven the Indians from this region the legend of the rock remained, and until a half century ago it was still a rendezvous for lovers. The section is now known as Wakefield. The Penfield homestead, which stood, until it was almost de-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Harry Tecumseh, 1873-; Kaplan, Nathan Julius, 1887-. New York, The author
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