372 The Story of The Bronx 



farm by his industry and frugality. The stream has long since 

 disappeared within a sewer. In the river near where the 

 stream emptied was Crab, or "Crabbe," island of the ancient 

 deeds and patents. Turneur's land lay between the Harlem 

 and Cromwell's Creek, and was called Nuasin by the Indians, 

 though better known as Devoe's Point, or Neck. The Devoes 

 were of Huguenot extraction, and one of them still lives in 

 Highbridgeville in an old homestead built about 1804; others 

 of the name settled in both Yonkers and New Rochelle. 

 Ogden, Woody Crest, and Sedgwick avenues lead south over 

 the neck to the junction with Jerome Avenue, which was 

 formerly called Central Avenue. 



Opposite Macomb's Dam Park, on Jerome and Woody 

 Crest avenues, is the fine edifice of the American Female 

 Guardian Society, the Home for the Friendless, with a bronze 

 tablet bearing the dates of 1 834-1 901. This is a charitable 

 organization which cares for children committed by the courts ; 

 for boys under ten, and girls under fourteen years of age. It 

 also provides homes for its charges and adopts them into 

 private families, besides conducting industrial schools in 

 different parts of the city. 



Along the river front, between Central Bridge and the 

 elevated railroad bridge at Eighth Avenue, are located the 

 boat club-houses of the rowing associations that formerly 

 lined the Harlem shore between the Third and Fourth Avenue 

 bridges, but which were obliged to move to this location on 

 account of the river bulkheads in their former position. Going 

 north over Jerome Avenue, this part being a portion of the 

 Macomb's Dam Road, we come to several avenues leading 

 to the top of the neck. East 161st Street is the principal 

 thoroughfare leading to the east and south ; and by means of 

 its trolley line, we may reach Franz Sigel Park, the entrance to 



