The Department maintains good order and strict discipline at all times, 

 and requires all tent-holders to comply rigidly with all ordinances and 

 park rules and regulations, as well as all rules and regulations of the 

 Department of Health. 



North of "Tent City" is a camp site for men only ; and there is a 

 similar site west of the approach to City Island Bridge. On an average, 

 60 men use these camping facilities. On Twin Islands, the Working 

 Girl's Association maintains two tents. On Hunter's Island there is a 

 Boy Scout Camp which averages about 100 campers. The Department 

 makes no charge for any of these privileges. There are boats to be hired 

 within the Park. Boating and fishing on the bays and adjacent waters 

 are popular recreations. 



Historical Associations. — When Howe occupied Throgg's Neck in 

 October, 1776, he attempted to cross Westchester Creek both at West- 

 chester Town and at the head of the creek, about where the Bronx and 

 Pelham Parkway crosses the Westchester meadows. Hand's riflemen 

 constituted the outposts at both places and successfully resisted the British 

 attempts, being supported at the head of the creek by Colonel Graham 

 with a regiment of Westchester County militia and by Captain Jackson 

 with a six-pounder. Howe, having failed in these attempts to get across 

 the creek on Washington's flank, was obliged to cross from Throgg's 

 Neck to Rodman's Neck in boats, landing near the Bowne house and 

 marching toward what is now Bartow or City Island Station. He en- 

 countered 550 men under Colonel Glover, who engaged him in a battle 

 that began near the big boulder (now known as Glover's Rock and 

 marked with a tablet), just south of the City Island Road. Colonel 

 Glover was driven back, but not until he had succeeded in inflicting heavy 

 losses on the enemy and detaining it long enough for Washington to 

 reach White Plains in safety. 



Split Rock is a gigantic boulder, cleft squarely in two, a good sized 

 tree growing in the crevice. Tradition states that the home of Ann 

 Hutchinson (for whom the Hutchinson River is named) stood somewhere 

 near the spring a few yards south of the boulder. She settled here in 

 1642 with her younger children and her son-in-law. In the same year, 

 her cabin was burned by the Indians, and all but one of her family were 

 killed. Her eight-year-old daughter escaped but was captured. Some say 

 she perished on the crest of Split Rock. 



Directly opposite the point where the Split Rock Road enters the 

 Shore Road, a lane leads down to the water's edge through the Bartow 

 place, to the ancient burial-place of the Pell family, in which several of 

 the manor-lords are buried. The plot is surrounded by a fence with 

 square granite posts at each corner. Upon each of these posts there 



46 



