Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
On this avenue it followed an irregular course to the boundary-line of the City of Mount Vernon, at the intersection of South Twelfth avenue and South Seventh street in that city. Thence it ran nearly due east, only two hundred to four hundred feet north of the New York City boundary, directly to the native station at old Eastchester village (21). The old road may still be traced by the ancient bowlder fences and old trees growing alongside as it falls sharply downgrade toward Hutchinson river.
It has recently been cut down between high banks at the Kingsbridge Road station on the Boston and Westchester Railway, the process exposing a shell-bed which doubtless indicates part of the site of the Siwanoy station. INDIAN PATHS Reaching the level of the old village street where a branch trail from Westchester joined it, the path turned sharply to the northwest, around the site of the old Schoolhouse Number One.
Near the now abandoned entrance to the old Fowler estate, at the foot of the hill on which it is said a native "castle" was situated, the road turned northeast past St Paul's church and its extensive graveyard.