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Retreat Hill. The hill in front of the Seamans’ Retreat, Stapleton, over 
which the shore road passes. Portions of the hill were removed during 1861, 
1862 and later. Mentioned in the Richmond County Gazette, May 7th, 1862, 
April 1st, 1863 and July 31st. 1872. 
Brimstone Hill. On the westerly side of the Richmond road near the 
head of Vanderbilt avenue. Recorded in Libers A, p. 247 and 11, p. 563 of 
Lispendens, at Richmond, in connection with the lands of John Wandel, Abra- 
ham Blake and Richard O. Cary. 
Ferguson’s Hill. A part of Fox Hill crossed by Belair road and Tomp- 
kins avenue, Clifton. 
Strawberry Hill. A name given by Judge Emerson and his neighbors to 
an open space where strawberries grew on the slope of Ocean Terrace near 
the Douglass road. 
Susan’s Bluff. The eminence on the southerly side of the Clove, former- 
ly owned by Judge Wm. Emerson, who called it Susan’s Bluff in honor of his 
wife. Judge Emerson was a brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson and lived on 
the slope of the bluff toward the Richmond road, where Thoreau visited him 
in the “ Snuggery ” during the summer of 1843. Susan Haven is described 
as the wife of Wm. Emerson in the Sepoy of Nov. 5th, 1859. 
Castleton Hill. “ . . . northeast side of the highway leading from 
the Moravian Church to the Richmond Turnpike, over Castleton Hill, com- 
monly called Toad Hill . . . ” Richmond County Gazette, May 31, 1871. 
Buck’s Hill. “. . . to the lots at Karle’s Neck, and from thence 
bounded by the rears of said Karle’s Neck lots, as they severally bear to the 
place where it first began, abutting and bounded upon the road or highway 
towards the north, and upon lands held by the said John Beathy on Buck’s 
Hill formerly possessed by Samuel Oliver, and land now in the tenure or occu- 
pation of Richard Conner towards the east, and upon the land held by the said 
John Hillyer as aforesaid towards the southeast and upon land belonging to 
the said Matthias Sweem, formerly Hubbards, towards the south and upon the 
said rears of the Karle’s Neck lots aforesaid towards the west and containing 
.. . about one hundred acres.” Liber D, p. 299, 1757. (See Mills Dale 
or Buck’s Hollow). 
Big Hill; Richmond or Latourette’s Hill. “. . . Road leading from 
the neck down the Big Hill (so called) to Richmond. . . . ” 1799, 
Liber EF, p. 435. 
Latourette’s Hill is mentioned in Richmond Co. Gazette, Dec. 10, 1862. 
Nigger Hill. At Giffords on the westerly side of Canavello’s Lane near 
the Amboy Road. 
Weir’s Hili. “Change in Election District. . . . along the Amboy 
Road to Weir’s Hill, up Weir’s Hill to Sharrott’s Corner, and thence wes- 
terly down to Kilmeyer’s store, and thence down the lane to the river by Hen- 
ry Sleight’s.” Richmond County Gazette, October 19th, 1864. (See Shar- 
rott’s Corner). 
Cherry Hill. At the foot of Sleight Street, Tottenville. 
Albert’s Bluff. Near the Billopp house, Tottenville. 
Katie’s Knoll. About two hundred feet west of South Avenue, Mariners’ 
Harbor and on the south side of the railroad track. Named after Katie Van 
