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little interfered with by man. After a heavy rain, a consider- 

 able body of water comes over the falls, which add to the 

 beauty and wildness of the scene. In the plan of streets 

 adopted in 1903, provision was made for a public park at this 

 place, but the Park Department of the Borough apparently 

 knows of no steps taken to secure the property. 



Rattlesnake Brook crosses the Boston (Coles) Road; to the 

 east of the road, the stream is dammed, forming Holler's 

 Pond, from which the ice supply of the neighborhood is cut 

 and upon whose frozen surface the people of the vicinity 

 enjoy the sport of skating. There is also a factory for the 

 making of artificial ice. Near this pond is located a small 

 settlement, which is the part of the ancient village of East- 

 chester within the Borough. A lane leads down the neck to 

 Reid's mill, about a mile from the Boston Road. This lane 

 used to be a very beautiful one; but in 1904 and 1905 most of 

 the trees were cut down for firewood and the beauty of the 

 landscape has been much decreased in consequence. There 

 are several magnificent old trees on the Boston Road near the 

 entrance to the lane, but these may suffer from the grading 

 of the post-road, now being made into a State road. At the 

 end of the lane, we come to the vast salt meadows of East- 

 chester Creek, which stretch away for several miles, and over 

 which there is no way of passing on foot, unless we go to 

 Pelham Bridge on the south or to the Prospect Hill Road on 

 the north. These meadows are not without their pictur- 

 esqueness, and Edward Gay, N.A., has depicted them in a 

 number of his pictures. 



In the olden times, the end of the lane at Eastchester Creek 

 was called Sander's Landing. In 1739, there was erected here 

 a tidal mill by Thomas Shute and Joseph Stanton. The mill 

 passed through several hands until 1766, when it was bought by 



