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In consequence, the whole country around about — what was 

 virtually Pell's purchase — was called by the Indians Laap- 

 hawachking, or the "place of stringing beads." 



The smaller section of the park south of Hutchinson's 

 River is at the northern end of Throgg's Neck, and was 

 called in colonial times "Dorman's Island," and later "Tay- 

 lor's Island." That there was some kind of a road leading 

 to it from the borough-town of Westchester, the map of 

 Sauthier, inaccurate as it is, plainly shows. Where this 

 Road comes into the Shore Road there are an athletic field for 

 outdoor sports, and a parade ground of one hundred and twenty 

 acres, opened September 10, 1904. 



In March, 1812, the Legislature incorporated the East- 

 Chester Bridge Company, and the bridge over the Hutchinson 

 River near its mouth was built soon after. In 1817, the 

 Westchester and Pelham Turnpike Company was incorporated 

 for the purpose of building a turnpike from the causeway at 

 Westchester to the above mentioned bridge, following prob- 

 ably the lane of Sauthier 's map. The first bridge was 

 destroyed by a storm, and the company was authorized by 

 the Legislature of 1816 to sell its property and franchises for 

 a period of forty-five years. The second bridge was built 

 in 1834 by George Rapelje, with the right to charge tolls for 

 a period of thirty years; but the supervisors of Westchester 

 County purchased the bridge in i860 and made it free. The 

 former iron bridge was constructed in 1869-70; but it proved 

 insufficient for the traffic after the automobile arrived, and it 

 was replaced by the present larger bridge, opened by the Depart- 

 ment of Bridges on October 15, 1908, at a cost of $517,000. 



The bridge has always been famous for the good fishing 

 to be obtained from it, and the author remembers having 

 made several trips to it when a very small boy, walking from 



