Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
This part of Westchester path, which will be first described, and is shown on Map VII, C, crossed the edge of some marshy ground near the bridge to Manhattan, where there is a patch of cultivable ground richly strewn with oyster-shells, indicating a small station and probably a plantingfield. Crossing Heath avenue, the Lower path, as we shall describe it, steeply ascended the hill to Sedgwick avenue, and through the wooded upland went due eastward as Kingsbridge road now runs, past the site of the old Dutch Reformed church near the head of University avenue, and the Eighth Regiment armory on Jerome avenue, and bending irregularly but nearly within the lines of the present Kingsbridge road, it ascended the high ground and reached and crossed the present Concourse.
Here it turned to the south around the present Poe Park, where the old Williamsbridge road, which is now part of Valentine avenue, later joined its route.