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and nearby are several rocky islets, called Rat Island, the Chim- 

 ney Sweeps, the Blauzes and Goose Island. 



One of the landmarks of City Island is the Horton homestead, 

 the oldest house on the island. Most of City Island was once com- 

 prised of the Horton Farm. 



The "Macedonian Hotel" is another landmark which attracts 

 wide attention. It is supposed to have been formed from part 

 of the hulk of the English frigate Macedonian, which had been 

 captured in the War of 1812 by Commodore Decatur. 



The inscription reads: This house is the remains of the Eng- 

 lish Frigate "Macedonian," captured on Sunday, October 25th, 

 1812, by the United States Frigate "United States" commanded 

 by Capt. Stephen Decatur, U. S. N. The action was fought in 

 Lat. 2Jf° N., Long. 29° 30' W., that is about 600 miles N. W. of the 

 Cape de Verde Islands off the W. coast of Africa and towed to 

 Cowbay in 1874. 



Mr. Stephen Jenkins in his Story of The Bronx cites a state- 

 ment from the United States Naval Academy, by Park Benjamin, 

 to the effect that, while the house is not the remains of the original 

 British Macedonian, it is the remains of a second ship of that 

 name, launched at Gosport, Virginia, in 1836, rebuilt at Brooklyn 

 in 1852, and broken up in 1874, at Cow Bay, Long Island. 



The picturesque old town of Eastchester with its ancient shade 

 trees and interesting old houses, some of which date back to Col- 

 onial days, is undeniably rich in historic memories. On the site 

 of the old Joseph Morgan residence was once located a large In- 

 dian settlement. Evidences of Indian occupation are found to this 

 day in the forms of arrow-heads, shell heaps and stone hatchets. 

 The Siwanoys had a fort on the hill directly in back of the Fowler 

 mansion. On this hill the early settlers erected in 1675, a "Gen- 

 eral Fort" for mutual protection. On the right of the road may 

 be seen Odell's barns dating from Revolutionary days. 



Eastchester was included in Pell's purchase of 1654. Pell 

 granted, on June 24, 1664, to James Eustis, Philip Pinckney, John 

 Tompkins, Moses Hoit, Samuel Drake, Andrew Ward, Walter Lan- 

 caster, Nathaniel Tompkins, and Samuel Ward, "to the number of 

 ten families, to settle down at Hutchinson's, that is where the house 

 stood at the meadows and uplands, to Hutchinson's River." These 

 ten families had migrated hither from Fairfield, Connecticut. The 

 settlement became known as the "Ten Farms," and later, East- 



