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THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 



relic of the picturesque saw and grist mills erected by Jacobus 

 Van Cortlandt, in 1700, which stood on the west side of the bridge 

 crossing the dam; they were struck by lightning and destroyed in 

 1901. To the westward, on Newton Avenue, part of the old Albany 

 Post Road, near Two Hundred Twenty-second Street, may still 

 be seen one of the two surviving milestones in this Borough, 

 recently reset by the City History Club. It was the fifteenth on 

 the route to Albany; the other one (the tenth milestone) is located 

 at One Hundred Sixty-eighth Street and Boston Road. 



Hadley House 



About four hundred paces north is the Van Cortlandt's miller's 

 house, a white house built for the miller of the old estate. 



Further along on the left is the Hadley house, partly of wood, 

 unpainted, and partly of stone covered with vines. It probably 

 antedates the Van Cortlandt mansion. It is said to have given 

 shelter more than once to Washington. In the adjoining woods 

 many relics have been found, including old English muskets, and 

 an Indian skeleton in a sitting position, holding a small child's 

 skeleton in its arms. Just above, north of Riverside Lane, is the 



