Thence it ran nearly due east, only two hundred to four hundred feet north of the New York City boundary, directly to the native station at old Eastchester village (21). The old road may still be traced by the ancient bowlder fences and old trees growing alongside as it falls sharply downgrade toward Hutchinson river. It has recently been cut down between high banks at the Kingsbridge Road station on the Boston and Westchester Railway, the process exposing a shell-bed which doubtless indicates part of the site of the Siwanoy station.

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INDIAN PATHS

Reaching the level of the old village street where a branch trail from Westchester joined it, the path turned sharply to the northwest, around the site of the old Schoolhouse Number One. Near the now abandoned entrance to the old Fowler estate, at the foot of the hill on which it is said a native "castle" was situated, the road turned northeast past St Paul's church and its extensive graveyard.

It may be readily traced as the old unpaved country road beyond that point, where it meets and becomes Columbus avenue, Mount Vernon. It passed up a very steep incline at the Marsh View farm, and reached the line of East Sixth street, which was long known as the old Boston post-road, opposite the modern Dunham avenue. Here it descended, east by north, across the head of the marsh bordering Acqueanounck or Hutchinson river, and, as previously described (p. 31), made for a place where the water passed between dry ground on either side, a crossing-place strategically selected and probably crossed on stepping-stones (pi. xiii).