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Wild Boar Hill, was conveyed into one of the rooms of the Van 

 Cortlandt mansion, where, after faintly speaking a few words to 

 his broken-hearted bride-elect, became exhausted by the effort, and 

 expired in her arms. 



Grand old trees surround the ancient mansion and spread their 

 mighty boughs above the eaves of that stately old building, as 

 if to shield it from the blustering winds that on stormy days sweep 

 over the ridge. South of the mansion, surrounded by a moat, is 

 the Dutch garden. One of the stones of the old mill forms the 

 base for the pedestal of a sun dial. Under the shadow of this 



Fifteenth Milestone 



Tenth Milestone 



building may be seen the grim Rhinelander Sugar-House Prison 

 window, removed hither from Duane and Rose Streets, Manhattan. 

 This Rhinelander Sugar House was used during the Revolutionary 

 War as a British military prison, and it was against the solid 

 iron grated bars of this window that the patriots pressed their 

 faces to get a breath of pure air. The window was presented by 

 T. J. 0. Rhinelander, and dedicated on May 26, 1903. It is flanked 

 by two cannons from Fort Independence. 



A crumbling old millstone on the bank of the mill race, near 

 the site of the original Van Cortlandt house, is the only ^remaining 



