Excursion Planned for the City History Club of New York
Excursion Planned for the City History Club of New York
Randell From Old Catalog Comfort
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(15. ) Rhinelander Sugar House Window is just northeast of the man- sion. It was presented by J. T. O. Rhinelander in 1903, and was formerly part of the old sugar house in Rose and Duane Streets (see Excursion No. I, No. 46). This is flanked by two cannon from Fort Independence (see 7). (16. ) The Statue of General Porter is behind the mansion ; erected 1902. (17. ) The Parade Ground, the camping place for the military, lies to the north. It is the site of Van der Donck's Planting Field (1653),... where he located his "bouwerie, " secured by purchase from the Indians and grant from Gov. Kieft, and about 1676 built a house about on the site of the first Van Cortlandt house (22). Later his lands were called Colen- donck, or Donck's Colony. (18. ) Vault Hill and the Van Cortlandt Burial Vault. In 1781 Wash- ington built camp fires on this hill to deceive the British, while he was withdrawing his troops to Yorktown. (19. ) Indian Field, on the old " Mile Square Road, " Woodlawn Heights, was the scene in August, 1778, of a battle between the British Cavalry and a small party of Stockbridge Indians fighting on behalf of the patriots.
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