THE PARKS 



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Claremont Park is connected with Crotona Park by means of 

 Wendover Avenue. A little north of Claremont Park are located 

 the smaller parks, known as Echo Park, St. James Park and Poe 

 Park. Poe Park is so named because adjacent to the park was the 

 Poe Cottage, recently removed to the Park and where Edgar Allen 

 Poe wrote many of his poems. Here, Virginia, his invalid wife, 

 died and was buried from the Fordham Manor Dutch Reformed 

 Church, Kingsbridge Road and Aqueduct Avenue. In Poe Park, 

 directly opposite the cottage, there is a bust of Poe with an inscrip- 



Bird Court, Bronx Park 



tion, erected by the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences on the 

 centenary of his birth, January 19th, 1909. In the Cromwell 

 house near the Poe cottage lived an old lady who supplied Poe 

 with the necessities of life during his deepest poverty. 



St. Mary's Park is situated at the southerly end of the Borough 

 and was formerly a portion of the property of Gouverneur Morris, 

 who lies buried in the churchyard of St. Ann's Church, within a 

 few feet of the park. 



In the northwesterly end of the Borough are Franz Sigel 

 Park, Macomb's Dam Park, University Park and Washington 

 Bridge Park; all small but splendidly located, and adding much 

 to the general beauty of the Borough. Franz Sigel Park, originally 



