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of the township is the former village of Woodlawn Heights; 

 and in the southeast corner there is a small strip lying along 

 the Gun Hill Road, between the cemetery and the Fordham 

 Manor line, upon which are situated the athletic field and 

 track belonging to Columbia University. Just east of it, 

 but within the cemetery, is the old redoubt thrown up by the 

 orders of General Heath in 1776. 



In 1884, there was established at Broadway and 138th 

 Street, Manhattan, a memorial to the great Jewish philan- 

 thropist, Sir Moses Montefiore, which took the form of a home 

 for aged and chronic invalids. The building up of that locality 

 and the limitation upon the spreading out of the institution's 

 buildings, caused the trustees to take steps for the acquisition 

 of a new site. That site was acquired in the fall of 1910 on 

 the Gun Hill Road, between Jerome Avenue and East 210th 

 Street, taking up four city blocks ; and the city has authorized 

 the closing of two streets so that the new buildings may 

 be compact, and the grounds complete within themselves. 

 Work was begun in the fall of 191 1, and when completed the 

 buildings will be strictly modern in all respects and will have 

 accommodations for six hundred inmates. It is expected 

 that they will be ready for occupancy in the spring or summer 

 of 1913. 



