Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
It would be most probable that a trail would have led directly from the St Raymond's cemetery site by way of the Eastern boulevard and Ferris road, directly to Burial point, to which it is related that the Siwanoy of the entire district were wont to bring their dead for interment.20 On the west side of Westchester creek, the wide tract now occupied by Unionport and Cornells neck spreads westward to Bronx river.
Its native occupied places were of importance. On Screvenspoint, INDIAN PATHS now known as Castle point, there existed an Indian fortified position or "castle" (9), from which the local name is derived, situated on an elevation of about 60 feet above tide-water. Below this eminence spreads a tract of about eight acres of rich farm-land, abundantly furnished with oyster-shells and yielding from time to time fine specimens of native weapons and tools.
At the extremity of that neck there is also a shore station, where evidences still exist of extensive native work in the manufacture of wampum from clam-shells.