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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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volutionary memoirs unless it be Battle Pass in ProspectPark, Brooklyn, or Harlem Heights. It was until quite recentlythe Van Cortlandt Estate. Three points of note mark it; one,the Van Cortlandt Manor House, a highly interesting colonialdwelling, built in 1748, and still in a fine state of preservation.This is eventually to be made an exhibition house of colonialrelics. Another memory of a long distanced past is the old sawmill of Revolutionary date, close to the railroad tracks, a ruin.But a mile away from these is Vault Hill, a burial groundwhere Washington lighted his fires to deceive the British (whowere across Spuyten Duyvil Creek), while his troops were quietlycrossing the Hudson. In MoAjnt St. Vincent, not far away, there is standing,now part of the Convent of St. Vincent, the Edwin ForrestCastle, of gray silican granite, w ith 6 octagonal towers. Forrest,the tragedian, built it with the view of founding a school ofactiug—a plan that was never carried out--and named it Font-
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TOM PAINE MONUMENT, NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 50 Trolley Exploring. hill Castle. From its windows there is a view up the Hudsonto Sing Sing (now Ossining). Riverdale shows many beautiful old places. For details as to Yonkers and connecting routes, see Route 40. ROUTE 34. From the Bronx Borough end of Cen-tral Bridge (McCombs Dam Bridge)—takeSixth Avenue Elevated to 155th street,walk over viaduct and bridge, car onthe Bronx Borough side—to Mount Ver-non, past Tremont, Jerome Park, Wood-lawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park,Empire City Race Track, Belmont. A 5-cent fare from the Harlem River into Mount VernoD,The car starting from Central Bridge does not go into MountVernon itself, but transfers to the line coming over from Yon-kers (see Rovite 40). For directions as to getting to thisstarting point see head line of this route. The way leads upJerome avenue, some years ago a famed driving road for NewYork horsemen. Its road houses still continue, though they areshorn of much of their former g

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