214 The Story of The Bronx 



Road still exists and leads to Westchester. Its name was 

 derived from a swamp to the east of Bronxdale, where the 

 Siwanoys had an important village near the site of Morris 

 Park race- track. 



Another road starting from a point on Tetard's Hill beyond 

 the one just described led to De Lancey's Mills at West Farms. 

 This road has long been closed. It branched off from the 

 Westchester and Kingsbridge road near the present Fordham 

 railroad station, and continued in a southerly direction till 

 it met the line of East i82d Street, over which it passed ap- 

 proximately to the bridge at East 181st Street, below the lower 

 dam in Bronx Park at West Farms, where it was known, and 

 still is to the older inhabitants, as the "Kingsbridge Road." 

 Its continuation connected the mills with the borough-town 

 of Westchester. The portion of the road lying within the 

 park east of the bridge has been macadamized; but between 

 Morris Park Avenue and the bridge over the tracks of the 

 Suburban branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford 

 Railroad, there still remains enough of the ancient highway 

 to convince us that preceding generations might have travelled 

 in style, but they did not do so in comfort. 



The principal road that the traveller could take after cross- 

 ing the causeway to the village of Fordham was the Boston 

 Road, which dates from 1673. This swung in a curve around 

 the base of Tetard's Hill and up to its top, paralleling the 

 Albany Road for about a third of a mile, then turning sharply 

 to the eastward toward Williamsbridge. Here it crossed 

 the Bronx River and turned north as far as the head of 

 Rattlesnake Brook, when it again turned sharp east to East- 

 chester. Here the Hutchinson River was crossed, and the 

 road continued through Pelham Manor to New Rochelle. A 

 few miles of the old road still remain and can be traced. The 



