The most important place on the east side of Westchester creek, however, was that known to the early settlers as "Burial point" (10), a place situated, but as yet unexplored, somewhere on the shore of Morris cove, near Old Ferry point.

Upon the point several places, by the presence of shell-beds and by fragments of weapons, evidence the native occupancy of the promontory. It would be most probable that a trail would have led directly from the St Raymond's cemetery site by way of the Eastern boulevard and Ferris road, directly to Burial point, to which it is related that the Siwanoy of the entire district were wont to bring their dead for interment.20

On the west side of Westchester creek, the wide tract now occupied by Unionport and Cornells neck spreads westward to Bronx river. Its native occupied places were of importance. On Screvens- point,

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now known as Castle point, there existed an Indian fortified position or "castle" (9), from which the local name is derived, situated on an elevation of about 60 feet above tide-water. Below this eminence spreads a tract of about eight acres of rich farm-land, abundantly furnished with oyster-shells and yielding from time to time fine specimens of native weapons and tools. At the extremity of that neck there is also a shore station, where evidences still exist of extensive native work in the manufacture of wampum from clam-shells. Such an important station as Castle point evidently required a pathway, which doubtless must have connected it with the Siwanoy village on the Bear Swamp road. The traffic between the two places could have passed most conveniently by way of the old Unionport road, which, after crossing Westchester avenue, followed the approximate line of Avenue C, or Castle Point road, which leads directly to the site of the one-time Screven residence that occupied the hillock on which the Indian place of refuge was seen as early as 1614.