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The rest of the neck is under cultivation, more or less, and 

 one's attention is attracted by the great number of broken 

 shells which are turned up by the plough. Other owners of 

 property on the neck were the Ludlow family, the first of 

 whom came to this country in 1694. Ludlow Street, Man- 

 hattan, was named after a member of this family. The name 

 of the first Ludlow was Gabriel, which became a family name, 

 which constantly appears in the family pedigree. One of 

 the name was a colonel in De Lancey's brigade of loyal- 

 ists during the Revolution; his half-sister was the wife of 

 Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independ- 

 ence; which shows how members of the same family dif- 

 fered in their political views during Revolutionary times. 

 Perhaps it was a good thing for some of the loyalists that 

 this was so; for undoubtedly many a handsome estate was 

 saved from confiscation through the prominence of some 

 patriotic member of a family who was in the line of 

 inheritance. 



Westchester Avenue, east of the Southern Boulevard, is 

 still very little built upon, though a large tract of land is being 

 developed by the American Realty Company beyond the 

 Bronx River. The thoroughfare was, until 1904, little dif- 

 ferent from a country road, lined by magnificent trees, which 

 have disappeared since the widening and grading of the street 

 in the year mentioned. At the same time, a turn-table bridge 

 was erected over the Bronx River and the tracks of the Sub- 

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

 Railroad. Before this, the crossing had been at grade, and it 

 was a dangerous place. 



To the eastward of Cornell's Neck is Castle Hill Neck, 

 upon which Unionport is situated. To reach the end of the 

 neck, we go out Avenue C, past the public-school building. 



