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THE BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 



the quaint little Hunt burying ground * in which early settlers 

 were interred and which is the last resting place of Joseph Rod- 

 man Drake. 



Until Park Commissioner Higgins sent a force of men there 

 in the summer of 1910 to clear away the over-grown weeds and 

 brambles and to cement the broken pieces of headstones together, 

 the repose of the little cemetery was rarely disturbed, and all sum- 

 mer long the birds and insects raised an unceasing song around the 

 weed-grown graves of the forgotten dead; the winter spread a 



Hunt's Point Cemetery in 1900 



blanket of white snow over it which remained until spring came 

 slowly and reluctantly to this upland resting place. 



And so the seasons came and passed, leaving the finger marks 

 of time and ruin. Yet on a summer's day the little knoll with its 

 crumbling, weather-beaten old tombstones is really a delightful 

 spot, and from its summit one can obtain an excellent panoramic 

 view of the surrounding country. 



* The little "God's Acre" is less than half an acre in area and is located 

 on the summit of a wooded knoll a short distance from the Hunt's Point 

 Station on the New Rochelle branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford 

 Railroad running from Mott Haven to New Rochelle. 



