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The “ Quarantine Road near the Willow Swamp bridge,” which crosses Sandy 
Brook, is mentioned in the Richmond County Gazette, Feby. 19th, 1862. 
Cranberry Bogs. Natural bogs containing cranberry vines at Sleight Street 
and Sprague Avenue, Tottenville. 
Uncle Aaron Van Name’s Swamp. At Sprague Avenue, Tottenville. 
MEADOWS, FIELDS AND PLAINS. 
The Meadows. Foot of Aspinwall Avenue, Tottenville. Also called Bay 
View Skating Park early in the sixties, and for more than twenty years the 
principal place for ice sports. 
Rotten Meadows. On the Old Place Meadows between Sedge Pond Creek 
and Vroom Creek. There are also Rotten Meadows on the New Jersey shore 
nearly opposite Dongan Island. 
Tan-fat Field. .A tannery once stood in the field near the upper part of 
Burgher Avenue, West New Brighton, and the place was in consequence known 
as the Tan-vat Field. After a time, when the tannery was gone, the careless 
small boy corrupted the name into the “ Tan-fat Field.” 
