The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York (1897) (14762589764)

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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization



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s, layingout well kept pasture lands, tasteful plantations, and slopinglawns. Blooded-stock replaced neat cattle slab-sided llozi-nantes lank sheep and razor-back hogs; our pastures andwaters nourished the hones and muscles of Eclipse and Trustee and gave new life and strength to imported ShortHorns, Alderneys and, Ayreshires, black-faced Southdownsand sleek hogs from foreign lands; but the old native stockof men still remained, and 11 showed against each other at theCounty and Town agricultural fairs ; the Town Clerk onlyenlarged the Poll List and carried the names of the owners ofabolished manors and grantees of the Archers, Pells, andCornells and the Rosters of the Militia of war-times alongsidethose of Fox, Dater, Faile, Dennison, White, Anderson,Haight, Hoe, Simpson, Butler, Cammann, Lydig, Coster, Spof-ford, Ludlow, Hall, Walker, Bailey, Van Schaick, Lorillard,Richardson, Coddington, and Watson, and many other namesknown in the mercantile, professional, journalistic and literary
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18 The (ireat North Side. life of tin1 great metropolis. Pelham and the Third AvenueBridges were built and new roads to Connecticut laid out,the Harlem River was crossed by a dam and fixed highwayat 7th Avenue, about 182C>, which was torn down and a drawput into it about L836; the High Bridge w as begun at aboutthat time with its arches eighty feet in the span and the crow nof the arch not less than out 1i and red feet above hiyh title)71and in 1842 the waters of the Croton crossed the Harlem onthat viaduct. The Lydigs had succeeded the DeLanceys withtheir flouring mill; Bolton from England had set up theBleach, and the Lorillards their snntbmill in the beautifulgorge of the Bronx, now happily devoted to Park purposes.Robert Macomb had his grist-mill at Kingsbridge built acrossSpuyten Duyvil creek, so thai the t(de would turn the wheel;the Van Tassels continued to grind the farmers1 grist at theold mill at Van Cortlandts, over Tibbitfl brook; the West-chester Creek still turned the