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first portion is that leading up to Sedgwick Avenue, where 

 Jerome Park and, later, the reservoir have obliterated a section 

 of it. From Jerome Avenue to the Williamsbridge reservoir, 

 the part remaining is called Van Cortlandt Avenue, and from 

 the reservoir to the bridge over the Bronx River and to the 

 White Plains road, the section is called improperly, the Gun 

 Hill Road. The White Plains and the Boston roads are the 

 same thing from Williamsbridge northward to where the latter 

 turns off toward Eastchester. This last portion of the road is 

 called Bussing Avenue, which begins at East 231st Street, one 

 block east of White Plains Avenue, and continues on to the 

 city line. As soon as it enters the city of Mt. Vernon, its name 

 becomes what it has been for over two centuries, the Kings- 

 bridge Road. With all due respect to the Bussings, who were 

 extensive landowners in this vicinity, the ancient road should 

 not have been called anything else than the Kingsbridge, 

 or Boston, road. In fact, a few of the old signs bearing both 

 titles are still to be found along the Bussing Avenue part of the 

 roadway; and, in the opinion of the writer, it is not too late to 

 restore the old names and thus preserve an ancient landmark. 

 At Eastchester, the ancient road is connected with Coles's 

 Boston Road by a short street called Fisher's Lane; but the 

 two roads do not become one until near New Rochelle. The 

 laying out of the Coles road diverted travel from the way of 

 Spuyten Duyvil Creek, as the distance was considerably 

 shortened by way of the new road and the Harlem Bridge. 



If the traveller in going over the Albany Post-road had 

 turned to the eastward at the bridge over Tippett's Brook near 

 Van Cortlandt station, he would have continued on a road lead- 

 ing to the Mile Square, as the purchase of French and others 

 from Doughty was called. This road was parallel to Van 

 Cortlandt Lake for over a mile before it turned to the east- 



